Condensing the First World War – a war which saw the slaughter of 9 million soldiers and 13 million civilians– into any art form is no easy task ...

In addition, Dominic Bilkey’s sound is first-rate, the various noises of war, as well as birdsong, being exceedingly ...

This is the second adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s unforgettable novel Birdsong, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and directed by Alastair Whatley. Faulks ...

T he list of actors who could play James Bond post-Daniel Craig is a who’s who of Hollywood’s finest. But despite rumors, “insider” confirmations, and yo-yoing betting odd ...

My father was an actor for a while, and when he read to me from Kipling, you could hear something of the actor he had been in his voice. He relished the cadences of those stories. Was he remembering ...

The play is from the highly acclaimed Original Theatre Company stable and developed in association with the Royal British ...

On the 30th anniversary of Sebastian Faulks’s bestseller Birdsong a touring production comes to Alexandra Palace Theatre next month ...

Charlie Russell is Isabelle Azaire as Sebastian Faulks’ epic tale of love and loss Birdsong returns to the stage in a brand-new production marking the 30th anniversary of the international ...

Edward discovers he’s at home among the jerks. And because Edward is played by Sebastian Stan, we know immediately that is going to be a layered and complex jerk at that. In fact, few modern ...

From the title and the chapter headings, this promises to be a very irritating book indeed: superfluous, semi-biographical criticism of a canonical author dressed up in nudging 'irreverence' from the ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid and Sebastian Faulks at Cornerstone, as well as Marian Keyes, Jojo Moyes, Stephen Fry and Dawn French at Michael Joseph. Bush said: "During my time at Penguin Random House ...

When Pietro Russell, the anti-hero of A Fool’s Alphabet, thinks of an afterlife, he imagines ‘a hell that is entirely composed of hotel bathrooms’. There will be the bars of soap, too tightly packed ...