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The Swimming-Pool Library

The Swimming-Pool Library
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

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,...

The Folding Star

The Folding Star
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): Flanders
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

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 1890s...

The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty
  • Author(s): Alan Hollinghurst
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

CHELSEA. Nick Guest has just graduated from Oxford and starts rooming at his friend’s parents house. Gerald Fedden M.P, is the head of the household and mixes in the higher echelons of society. Nick is very taken with the...

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