Your new novel A Possible Life weaves several different stories across different decades together: what inspired you to take this format and was it difficult to maintain? I used this structure ...

Our New Scientist Book Club has been reading Sebastian Faulks’s The Seventh Son, a futuristic sci-fi thriller in which a young woman answers an ad to carry a child that is, unbeknownst to her ...

Sebastian Faulks had 528 pages to work with and he made a good fist of it, slicing through four years of one of history’s most bloody episodes to reveal strata of suffering. Rachel Wagstaff ...