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ReviewFiction
North Woods by Daniel Mason — tales from a haunted house
...North Woods by Daniel Mason John Murray £16.99/Random House $28, 384 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
September 1, 2023
The Big Read
Can Barclays move beyond scandal and stagnation?
...New chair John McFarlane had just brutally fired the bank’s chief executive Antony Jenkins, after a bruising boardroom showdown over his proposed reforms at the genteel Lucknam Park country house hotel in...
November 14, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Royal Navy, Cat in the Hat and ‘Eggheads’
...Edward Pusey and John Henry Newman were members of which 19th-century religious movement? Click here for the answers...
September 9, 2022
ReviewThriller books
Dirty cash, icy chills and 007 in peril — the best new thrillers
...In Seventeen (Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99) John Brownlow has no such constraints....
September 19, 2022
UK politics
Former top UK judges sound alarm over court review
...But John Dyson, a former Supreme Court justice, told the Financial Times that judicial review “for the most part works very smoothly and there is not a problem”....
November 17, 2020
ReviewFiction
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds — snob appeal
...This is territory familiar from Sebastian Faulks’ A Week in December (2009) and John Lanchester’s Capital (2012) among others....
November 2, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Where My Heart Used to Beat’, by Sebastian Faulks
...Off Hendricks goes and, in scenes reminiscent of John Fowles’s The Magus (1965), the two men start a series of conversations about memory and the best ways to treat mental illness that result in Hendricks...
November 6, 2015
Life & Arts
Dead men’s pens: reinventing Wodehouse, Austen and Chandler
...One summer morning earlier this year, John Banville, the Man Booker prizewinning novelist, sat down to start work on a new book....
December 13, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Sharp practice
...Just as the sassiest of bankers have found ways to profit from the crash, so novelists such as Sebastian Faulks, Justin Cartwright and John Lanchester have discovered the boom among the bust....
June 29, 2012
Life & Arts
Bleak encounters
...Faulks didn’t see the funny side of things, so runner-up Alan Titchmarsh received the prize that year instead. The award excludes erotic literature....
November 26, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
Faulks on Fiction
...John Sutherland is the author of ‘Literature: 50 Ideas You Need to Know’ (Quercus). ‘Faulks on Fiction’ begins on February 5 on BBC Two at 9pm...
February 4, 2011
Life & Arts
Show me the money
...In A Week In December (2009), Sebastian Faulks produces a standard-issue banking anti-hero named John Veals, dishing him up with dull lectures on financial instruments as a side-order....
March 2, 2012
Leo Robson
The world as seen from England
...Philip Glenister, the oldest of the four actors (the others being Max Beesley, John Simm and Marc Warren), tends to offer the second line in such exchanges....
February 3, 2012
John LloydLife & Arts
Unexpected allies as the book nears its end
...Yet Faulks makes you sit up and listen; he may even drive you back to the books that still furnish your rooms. john.lloyd@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/lloyd...
February 18, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
Other People’s Money
...Indeed, for all his perfect manners, effortless charm and gorgeous John Lobb boots, the father is so cold that his first wife killed herself....
March 4, 2011
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Life & Arts
Adapt or die?
...Of the five films in contention, three are based on novels: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (adapted from John Le Carré’s classic cold war thriller), The Descendants (from Kaui Hart Hemmings’ 2007 acclaimed debut...
February 10, 2012
UK retail results
Foyles returns to profit
...But the store has stuck to its tradition of holding literary talks, featuring such authors as Sebastian Faulks and Martin Amis....
September 23, 2010
Life & Arts
Birdsong, Comedy Theatre, London
...Against John Napier’s sepia backdrops, Wagstaff and Nunn conjure up the poignant contrast between this sleepy backwater and the hellish landscape it is about to become....
October 1, 2010
FT AlphavilleGwen Robinson
Gathering storm: hedgies assess the future
...Purportedly authored by John Veals, the amoral hedge fund manager in Sebastian Faulks’ best-selling credit-crunch novel “A Week In December,” the essay is aptly called, “A fund manager strikes back”....
October 20, 2010
John LloydLife & Arts
Serious intentions and steamy intrigues
...john.lloyd@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/lloyd...
September 11, 2010
UK companies
James Bond lives to fight another day
...While Mr Faulks set his narrative in the late 1960s, Mr Deaver said the new James Bond adventure would take place in the present day....
May 27, 2010
Westminster blogJim Pickard
Britain’s new peers – the full list of 56
...Gardiner: deputy chief exec of Countryside Alliance Edward Faulks QC: barrister Deborah Stedman-Scott: chief executive of Tomorrow’s People, employment charity Nat Wei: founder of Teach First LIBERAL...
May 28, 2010
UK economy
Arise Mr Liquidity and Little Miss Integrity
...The latest is John Veals, a greedy London hedge fund manager. He gleefully wrecks the British financial system in A Week In December, a novel by Sebastian Faulks....
October 21, 2009
ReviewLife & Arts
A Week in December
...a lame joke, or Faulks is....
September 14, 2009
Hedge funds
World View Live: The chips are down for Hynix creditors
...Hedge fund realities “Sophisticated investors need flexible arrangements, not fussy inspectors,” says John Veals, the horrid hedge fund manager at the centre of Sebastian Faulks’ new novel....
September 24, 2009

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