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The Spell
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00The Spell is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin; Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex; and the shy Alex, who is Justin's ex-boyfriend.... more...
The Line of Beauty (Picador 40th Anniversary Edition)
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 7.66?A classic of our times . . . The work of a great English stylist in full maturity. A masterpiece? Observer 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... more...
The Spell
Penguin Group US 2000; US$ 15.00Here 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 son Danny; and Justin's former boyfriend Alex, whose... more...
The Folding Star
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00Edward 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 Belgian painter Edgard Orst. more...
The Swimming Pool Library
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 12.00Alan Hollinghurst's first novel is 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. By the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of... more...
The Stranger's Child
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95From 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 late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate?a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance?to his family?s modest home outside... more...
The Line of Beauty
Pan Macmillan UK 2004; US$ 15.18It 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, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine... more...
The Stranger's Child
Pan Macmillan UK 2011; US$ 15.18Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize It is the late summer of the last year before the first Great War. Cecil Valance, a beautiful young aristocratic poet, is visiting Two Acres, the home of his Cambridge friend and lover, George Sawle. On his departure, Cecil leaves a poem, dedicated to George's... more...
The Swimming-Pool Library
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95A 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 meticulously particular in its observation of everything"... more...
The Stranger's Child
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 8.95The Sunday Times Novel of the Year ?With The Stranger?s Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular? Sunday Times In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families... more...









