Engleby Faulks, Sebastian

Mike Engleby is brilliant, awkward, and deeply unreliable. A scholarship boy at an elite 1970s English university, he navigates class divides, punk rock, and his own fractured psyche with dark wit and unsettling clarity. When a fellow student disappears, Engleby's obsessive narration spirals into something far more disturbing than a campus mystery. Sebastian Faulks delivers a chilling character study disguised as a thriller — part psychological portrait, part confession, part unreliable memoir. The prose is sharp and unsparing, capturing both the casual cruelty of privilege and the terror of a mind unraveling. This isn't a whodunit; it's a slow-burn descent into one man's interior landscape, where memory, delusion, and truth blur beyond recognition. For readers who like their literary fiction with teeth and their narrators morally compromised.