{"product_id":"fires-which-burned-brightly-9781804952825","title":"Fires Which Burned Brightly : A Life in Progress","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Fires Which Burned Brightly , Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood – ‘cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range’ – the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of the country’s most acclaimed novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are not one, but two daring escapes from boarding school; the delirium of a jetlagged American book tour; the writing of Birdsong in his brother’s house in 1992; and memorable trips across the channel to France. Politics, psychiatry and frustrated ventures into the world of entertainment are analysed with patience and rueful humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is driven by a desire ‘to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’ It ends with a tribute to Faulks’s parents and a sense of how his own generation was shaped by the disruptive power of war and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharply perceptive and alive with a generous wit, Fires Which Burned Brightly is a work of subtle yet profound intelligence and warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Sebastian Faulks\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 28 May 2026 by Cornerstone.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sebastian Faulks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320562327930,"sku":"9781804952825","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781804952825.jpg?v=1790657706","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/fires-which-burned-brightly-9781804952825","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}