Engleby

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Sebastian Faulkss new novel is a bolt from the blue: contemporary, demotic, angry, heart-wrenching, and funny, in the deepest shade of black.

Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, he rises without trace in Thatchers England and scorches through the blandscape of New Labour.

In the course of his brief, incandescent career, he and the reader encounter many famous people actors, writers, politicians, household names but by far the most memorable is Engleby himself.

Sebastian Faulkss new novel can be read as a lament for a generation and the country it failed. It is also a meditation on the limits of science, the curse of human consciousness and on the lyrics of 1970s rock music. And beneath this highly disturbing surface lies an unfolding mystery of gripping narrative power. For when one of Mikes contemporaries unaccountably disappears, the reader has to ask: is even the shameless Engleby capable of telling the whole truth

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One of the most impressive novelists of his generation.
Sunday Telegraph

The best novelist of his generation.
Scotsman

Faulks is beyond doubt a master.
Financial Times

Author Bio

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks's books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.