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The Sparsholt Affair

Alan Hollinghurst

From Oxford during the dark days of the Second world war to contemporary London, this is a masterly novel about sexuality, art and family secrets.

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The Spell

Alan Hollinghurst

From the author of The Swimming-Pool Library comes a novel about the lives of four men that intersect and intertwine during a long summer of discovery and heartbreak in London…

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The Sparsholt Affair

Alan Hollinghurst

The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of…

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The Stranger’s Child

Alan Hollinghurst

The No.1 bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery…

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The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is a perfectly realized tale of our times.

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The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving – a perfectly realized tale of our times.

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Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

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The Spell

Alan Hollinghurst

A study of sexual appetite and of the more nebulous longings that accompany it; this is also a comedy of manners.

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The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

This controversial, darkly erotic novel of male homosexuality and promiscuity before the scourge of AIDS was easily one of the year’s (1988) most important debuts .

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Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence

Allan Johnson

Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in…

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Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence

Allan Johnson

Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence proposes a striking approach for reading the influences that interlace twentieth-century gay British writers. Focusing on the role of the textual image in…

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Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence

An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain’s leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. – .

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Sex and Sensibility in the Novels of Alan Hollinghurst

Winner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection Prize This book is a challenging and engaging collection of original essays on the novels of Alan…

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Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence

An edited collection on Alan Hollinghurst, one of Britain’s leading contemporary novelists with an outstanding international reputation. – .

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The Stranger’s Child

Alan Hollinghurst

The UK number one hardback bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and…

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The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

The first novel focused on gay life to win the Booker Prize, this title does more than glance back at the sometimes frivolous and deadly aspects of London’s gay culture…

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Hijo del Desconocido, El

Alan Hollinghurst

In the summer of 1913, George Sawle, a student at Cambridge, goes back home to spend some time with his family, accompanied by his friendCecil Balance, an aristocrat and poet…

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The Sparsholt Affair

Alan Hollinghurst

The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of…

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The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst

Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and…

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The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

Superbly written, wildly funny’ Daily Telegraph THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE LINE OF BEAUTY Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London…

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London, Queer Spaces and Historiography in the Works of Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst

Julia Braga Neves

J?lia Braga Neves shows how queer spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots…

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The Spell

Alan Hollinghurst

From the author of The Swimming-Pool Library comes a novel about the lives of four men that intersect and intertwine during a long summer of discovery and heartbreak in London…

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The Spell

Alan Hollinghurst

A study of sexual appetite and of the more nebulous longings that accompany it; this is also a comedy of manners.

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The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst

The eagerly awaited new novel by the author of The Swimming Pool Library. Dark, witty, and supremely moving, The Folding Star is at once an exhilarating comedy of infatuation and…

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The Folding Star

Alan Hollinghurst

Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and…

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The Sparsholt Affair

Alan Hollinghurst

The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of…

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The Sparsholt Affair

Alan Hollinghurst

The Sparsholt Affair is the long-awaited sixth novel from the supreme stylist of British fiction and previous winner of the Man Booker Prize. From Oxford during the dark days of…

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The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience…

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The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience…

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Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit

Simon Martin

The first color monograph on the artist Glyn Philpot - a key figure in Modern British art

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Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936

Donald Mitchell,Alan Hollinghurst

A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period.

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Fragonard’s Progress of Love

Alan Hollinghurst,Xavier F. Salomon

Designed to foster critical engagement and interest the specialist and non-specialist alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the Frick’s rich collection with an…

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Tacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life

A definitive survey of the work of Tacita Dean OBE RA, published to coincide with three major exhibitions in London in 2018.

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