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  • Published: 7 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804944387
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99

Engleby



FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Vivid . . . engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny' GUARDIAN
'Beautifully done . . . witty and poignant' THE TIMES
'Brilliant' OBSERVER

Welcome to Mike Engleby's world. Deep in the hallowed halls of an esteemed English university, Mike is one of the only working-class boys, amongst the privileged masses. He's also different, starkly so, but able to observe it all. But observation soon tips into obsession when his fixation, fellow student Jennifer, goes missing. What has Mike Engleby overlooked?

A cult classic and an exemplar of the campus novel, Engleby is a beguiling portrait of an outsider, told in an unforgettable voice.

'Remarkable . . . intensely exhilarating' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'A tour-de-force . . . a great novel' DAILY MAIL
'Compelling, disturbing and significant' SCOTSMAN

  • Published: 7 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804944387
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks’s books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.

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Praise for Engleby

[A] book that made me realise there are fewer boundaries in fiction than I'd believed

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