A tour de force: a darkly erotic work that centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.[...]
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 [...]
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 is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890's Belgian painter Edgard Orst.[...]
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[...]
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, across generations.
In the summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate--a handsome, aristocratic young poet named[...]
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 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the[...]
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 [...]
Alan Hollinghurst's first novel in seven years is a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth--and a family mystery--across generations.
In 1913, George Sawle brings charming, handsome Cecil Valance to his family's modest home outside London for a summer weekend[...]
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[...]
A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and[...]
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE 2004 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION, AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
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[...]
A huge critical success on first publication in 2004, the novel went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize. It was adapted for television and broadcast on BBC2 in 2006. 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 [...]
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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[...]
With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2004, 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[...]
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. [...]
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 an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at [...]
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.[...]
Vinneren av Man Booker Prize i 2004, Den skjønne linje, og en av tidenes mest omtalte bøker, er en fengslende roman om klasse, sex og penger som bringer Thatchers London til live.Det er 1983 og Nick Guest kommer til Notting Hill for å bo hos familien Fedden. Han kjenner sønnen, Toby, fra Oxford [...]
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[...]
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 litteraturhistorien som ett eko från en förlorad generation. En[...]
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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[...]