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Faulks finds 40 for Waterstone’s promo

01.05.08 Graeme Neill

Sebastian Faulks has revealed the 40 titles that shaped his writing as part of Waterstone’s first Writers Table promotion.

The 40 titles from 12 different publishers are being rolled out to around 160 stores today (1st May), each featuring a special band with Faulks’ handwritten thoughts on why he chose the book.

Among the titles he selected are Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Waste Land by T S Eliot and The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.

Each book will be sold at full price. Among the lesser-known titles is history book First Day of the Somme by Martin Middlebrook. “Calm, detailed and horrifying, it was written at a time (1970) when no one seemed to care,” Faulks said.

THE FULL LIST:

Jake’s Thing by Kingsley Amis
Success by Martin Amis
Tim All Alone by Edward Ardizzone
The Garden of the Finzi Continis by Giorgio Bassani
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Waste Land by T S Eliot
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
The Magus by John Fowles
Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
Loving. Living. Party-Going by Henry Green
The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
The Price of Glory by Alistair Horne
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
The Lake by Yasunari Kawabata
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
The Adventures of Dr Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The House of Elrig by Gavin Maxwell
The First Day of the Somme by Martin Middlebrook
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The World is Not Enough by Zoe Oldenbourg
Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzehenitsyn
The Red and The Black by Stendhal
A Cruel Madness by Colin Thubron
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Germinal by Emil Zola

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