Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of...

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst is a captivating exploration of privilege, desire, and the shadowy corners of London’s gay culture. The novel centres on William Beckwith, a young, attractive, and idle aristocrat who spends his wealthy days seeking pleasure and excitement amidst the vibrant yet clandestine gay scene of 1980s London. His hedonistic lifestyle takes a poignant turn when...

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics, and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain. There was the soft glare of the flash—twice—three times—a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no...

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of...

I can’t explain it. I can’t explain any of it to you. The line of beauty which led me to him… to here. London. Summer, 1983. Nick Guest moves into the grand Notting Hill home of his university friend Toby — and into the dazzling world of Toby’s father Gerald, a newly elected Tory MP, his elegant wife Rachel, and...