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Sebastian Faulks

The Spectator

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Books / The mystery of what makes us special remains unsolved

Consciousness is thought by many to define what it is to be human. We know that animals are conscious to some extent, but they don’t have what we...

01.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Sebastian Faulks

Books / The mystery of what makes us special remains unsolved

Consciousness is thought by many to define what it is to be human. We know that animals are conscious to some extent, but they don’t have what we...

01.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Sebastian Faulks

'He is an awful man': Why we are wrong about Darcy

Mostly miserable and even "unforgivably cruel", Jane Austen's famous romantic hero is not what he seems, writes the author Sebastian Faulks, in an...

10.09.2025 30

BBC

Sebastian Faulks