Comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, Justin, Danny and Alex. As each falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the clashing imperatives of gay life, the hunger for contact, the [...]

Here are the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his young lover, Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin's attractive and dangerously volatile twenty-two-year-old so[...]

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, [...]

In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings the charming, aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance to his family's modest home. The shared intimacies of this weekend link the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably, becoming legendary events in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways [...]

Winner of the Booker Prize
On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motl[...]

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Winner of 2004's Man Booker Prize for fiction and one of the most talked about books of the year, "The Line of Beauty "is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money that br[...]

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The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's masterpiece, the book that cements his position as one of the finest novelists of our time. In its scope, intelligence and elegance, The Stranger's Child can be placed in the great tradition of the novel alongside epics by Marc[...]

Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in the rising fortunes of this glamorous family and finds his own life forever altered by his association during the boom years of the 1980s. [...]

En seinsommerhelg i 1913 forelsker Daphne seg hodestups i den aristokratiske unge poeten Cecil Valance, og han på sin side skriver et dikt til henne. Cecil dør i krigen, og Daphne blir en av mange som aldri kan gi slipp på minnet om ham.[...]

I sensommeren 1913 tager George Sawle sin ven fra Cambridge, Cecil Valance, med på weekend i barndomshjemmet ´Two Acres´. George er fascineret af den flotte, aristokratiske poet og hans mange historier fra Corley Court, det gods, han er arving til. Også Georges søster, den sekstenå[...]

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Sensommaren 1913 kommer den unge adlige poeten Cecil Valance på besök till Two Acres, Cambridgevännen George Sawles familjeställe. Cecil skriver en dikt till Georges lillasyster Daphne, en dikt som kommer att gå in i den engelska litteratu[...]