- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781804952825
- Length: 400 pages
- Price: £10.99
Fires Which Burned Brightly
A Life in Progress
The TimesSebastian Faulks is one of our finest living authors, a writer whose work has often explored the fragility of human sanity and how easily it can unravel . . . A wise and heartfelt piece of writing
Nick Duerden, i PaperIntriguing, fascinating and enlightening . . . filled with gratitude and charm, but also full of evidence of the endless curiosity that is every great novelist’s weapon of choice
RORY STEWART, author of Politics on the EdgeA wonderful portrait of an age, and of a writer
DAVID KYNASTON, author of A Northern WindUtterly fascinating
ALICE WINN, author of In MemoriamShot through with the kind of depth and detail that can only come from a masterful writer finally turning his pen to his own life. Fresh, wise and finely-wrought
MARK KNOPFLERAs charming and funny in schoolboy episodes as he is thought-provoking in the darker environs of mental health, Sebastian Faulks is always resonant, civilised and sane
About Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.
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