Birdsong

Trevor Nunn's production of Birdsong is a flat-pack version of Sebastian Faulks's 1993 bestseller.

Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister Susannah Clapp 2010

We'd love to be like Sebastian Faulks's heroine in Birdsong and enjoy swooning orgasms at the mere prospect of penetration but alas it isn't so.

Amanda Craig discusses In A Dark Wood and describes the challenges of writing from a man's point of view 2010

Whether it’s the First World War in Birdsong or the Second in Charlotte Gray, the author gets the details and — more important — the zeitgeist right.

Cover to Cover 2007

Whether it’s the First World War in Birdsong or the Second in Charlotte Gray, the author gets the details and — more important — the zeitgeist right.

Cover to Cover 2007

Sebastian Faulks, for example, claims somewhat disdainfully that "Birdsong" 1993, set largely during World War I, is not a historical novel.

Mongols on the Moskva Allan Mallinson 2011

With some amusement, Mr. Faulks recalls his own experience of traveling around England on a book tour to promote his World War I novel "Birdsong" in 1993.

The Work, Not the Author, Matters Tobias Grey 2011

"I hadn't expected Jane Austen to be such a rebel, so undermining of her elders and 'betters,'" writes Mr. Faulks in "Faulks on Fiction" — a passionate overview of the British novel by the author of "Birdsong" and "Charlotte Gray."

The Work, Not the Author, Matters Tobias Grey 2011

"Birdsong," dramatized by youthful Rachel Wagstaff from Sebastian Faulk's 1993 World War I best-selling novel and directed by Trevor Nunn opens at the Comedy (www. comedy-theatre.com).

A Promising London Theater Season 2010

Mr. Faulks is best known as a writer of historical fiction: His 1993 novel "Birdsong" has sold three million copies world-wide, according to Doubleday.

Doubleday, Penguin Try to Revive 2008

Re "Birdsong", I love the way that allusions and references in Hunter lyrics can emerge 30 years after they were written.

The WELL: Bird Song Robert Hunter 2004