However, following the success of Birdsong, he has been able to focus his energies on books. Sebastian Faulks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993 and appointed CBE for ...

Faulks joins author Helen Dunmore on Radio 4's Open Book to talk to Mariella Frostrup about novelists' responses to World War One. Rana Mitter talks to Faulks on Radio 3's Night Waves about his ...

My early books were really asking the question: who are we and how did we end up where we are? So naturally you have to find your answer in the past. The detail is drawn from research, from visits ...