There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver ; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013.

A more recent fictional example is Charlotte Gray, based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks.

In 2010, Nunn directed a revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Aspects of Love from July to September 2010 at the Menier Chocolate Factory and the play Birdsong, which opened in September 2010 at the Comedy Theatre, based on the Sebastian Faulks novel of the same title.

Similarly the more recent continuation Bond novels — the 2008 Sebastian Faulks novel Devil May Care and the 2011 novel Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver — both contained the character.

* Birdsong ( novel ), a 1993 novel by Sebastian Faulks

He also appears in the 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks, Human Traces, and in Axel Munthe's 1929 autobiographical novel The Story of San Michele.

* Human Traces, 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks

On what would have been 100th birthday — 26 May 2011 — the novel Devil May Care, written by Sebastian Faulks, was published.

Faulks based his novel in the 1960s ; he also managed to use a number of the cultural touchstones of the sixties in the book.

Faulks ' first novel, A Trick of the Light, was published in 1984.

In 2011 Faulks presented a four-part BBC Two series called Faulks on Fiction, looking at the British novel and its characters.

Faulks ' 2005 novel, Human Traces, was described by Trevor Nunn as " A masterpiece, one of the great novels of this or any other century.

To mark the 2008 centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, the late author's estate in 2006 commissioned Faulks to write a new James Bond novel.

The Observer review of the novel said that " Faulks has done in some ways an absolutely sterling job.

The Scotsman review of the novel said, " To his credit, Faulks has imitated the haphazard plotting, sloppy characterisation, Colonel Blimp politics, sexist guff and basic incredulity of Ian Fleming to a tee.

It's a Nuremberg Defence of a novel: Faulks was only following orders ".

Faulks ' 2009 novel, A Week in December, takes place, in the seven days leading up to Christmas in December 2007.

It focuses on the lives of a varied cast of characters living in London ; Faulks himself has described the novel as " Dickensian " and cites Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend as influences, as well as New York novelists such as Tom Wolfe and Jay McInerny.

Mark Lawson wrote in The Guardian, " an honest critic must surely conclude that Faulks has correctly identified the novel that needs to be written about these times, but may also have proved that British society is now so various that no single writer can capture all its aspects.

Birdsong is a 1993 war novel by English author Sebastian Faulks.

We rejoin Stephen some years later as a lieutenant in the British Army and through his eyes, Faulks tells the reader about the Battle of the Somme and Ms Ridge at Ypres in the following year.

The Literary Review has said that " Faulks has the rare gift of being popular and literary at the same time "; the Sunday Telegraph called him " One of the most impressive novelists of his generation ... who is growing in authority with every book ".

Faulks describes how a soldier called Hunt is terrified of going underground as an exploding shell could trap the soldiers underground causing them to suffocate.

Over the years many famous authors have signed at Hatchards including J. K Rowling, Alexander McCall-Smith, Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Thatcher, Lauren Bacall, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Paxman, Joanne Harris, the late Alec Guinness, David Attenborough, Michael Palin, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, Peter Mandelson, Hilary Mantel, Sebastian Faulks, and Howard Jacobson.

Works include William Boyd's An Ice-Cream War ; Sebastian Faulks ' Birdsong and The Girl at the Lion d ' Or ( concerned with the War's consequences ); Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy and Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

It is implied that Sebastian Faulks ' eponymous Engleby and Thomas Richardson also matriculated at Emmanuel.

Faulks is best known for his three novels set in early twentieth-century France. The first, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, was published in 1989.

The high wind at the time scattered burning thatch and straw in all directions and in 20 minutes George Tailby and George Pretty ’ s farms were ablaze, as were four cottages, two occupied by William Faulks and Thomas Skillett, and a pub tenanted by George Watson.

The London Review of Books was scathing about Faulks ' criticisms of aspects of modern life: " This isn ’ t satire.

It was remarked upon as a change of direction for Faulks, both in terms of the near-contemporary setting and in the decision to use a first-person narrator.

He has been responsible for performances reading Pat Barker's Regeneration, The Ghost Road and The Eye in the Door, Suspicion by Robert McCrum, Maurice by E. M. Forster, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Sebastian Faulks ' Birdsong and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d ' Urbervilles.

* Sebastian Faulks discusses Birdsong on the BBC World Book Club

Samuel West has received seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ( 1996 ), Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie ( 1997 ), Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks ( 1999 ), The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain ( 2000 ), The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst ( 2007 ), Faust by Goethe ( 2011 ) and A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman ( 2011 ).

Faulks says of the novel's genesis, " I woke up one morning with this guy's voice in my head.

Amiens is the town in which much of the book Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks takes place.

* Faulks, Philippa and Cooper, Robert L. D., The Masonic Magician ; The Life and Death of Count Cagliostro and his Egyptian Rite, London, Watkins, 2008.

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* In Engleby by Sebastian Faulks there are several references to Corpus.

Notable former pupils include historian P. J. Marshall, architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, impressionist Rory Bremner, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, author Sebastian Faulks, language school pioneer John Haycraft, political journalist Robin Oakley, actor Sir Christopher Lee, writer George Orwell, author Rupert Croft-Cooke, poet Gavin Ewart, composer John Gardner, world champion motor racing driver James Hunt, Leader of the House of Lords Lord Strathclyde, journalist and television presenter Peter Snow, the UK Pop Idol winner Will Young, and BRIT Award-nominated singer Nerina Pallot, and the rugby union players James Haskell and the brothers Max and Thom Evans.

* Faulks, Keith.

A short biography of Wolfenden appears in the book The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks.

The first version of the script, produced in late 1953, was written by Hugh Faulks, in consultation with Orwell's widow Sonia Brownell, but when Cartier joined in January 1954 he demanded that Kneale be allowed to handle the adaptation.

Both wards are represented by councillors all from the Ingleby Barwick Independent Society ( IBIS ) who were elected on 5 May 2011. They are for Ingleby Barwick East, Corr, Gillian ; Faulks, Kevin ; Kirby, Jean Patricia.