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Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and for his novel The Line of Beauty the 2004 Booker Prize. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his six novels since 1988. Early life and education Hollinghurst was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, only child of bank manager James Hollinghurst, who served in the RAF in the Second World War, and his wife, Elizabeth. He attended Dorset's Canford School. He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1975 and MLitt in 1979. His thesis was on works by three gay writers: Firbank, Forster and Hartley. He house-shared with future poet laureate Andrew Motion at Oxford, and was awarded poetry's Newdigate Prize, a year before Motion. In the late 1970s he lectured at Magdalen, then at Somerville and Corpus Christi. In 1981 he lectured at UCL, and in 1982 joined The Times Literary Supplement, serving as deputy editor, 1985–90. Hollinghurst discussed his early life and literary influences at length in a rare interview at home in London, published in The James White Review in 1997–98. Writing He won the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. His next novel, The Stranger's Child, made the 2011 Booker Prize longlist. List of works Poetry Isherwood is at Santa Monica (Sycamore Broadsheet 22: two poems, hand-printed on a single folded sheet), Oxford: Sycamore Press 1975 Poetry Introduction 4 (ten poems: "Over the Wall", "Nightfall", "Survey", "Christmas Day at Home", "The Drowned Field", "Alonso", "Isherwood is at Santa Monica", "Ben Dancing at Wayland's Smithy", "Convalescence in Lower Largo", "The Well"), Faber and Faber, 1978 ISBN 978-0571111435 Confidential Chats with Boys, Oxford: Sycamore Press 1982 (based on the book Confidential Chats with Boys by William Lee Howard, MD., 1911, Sydney, Australia) "Mud" (London Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 19, 21 October 1982) Short stories A Thieving Boy (Firebird 2: Writing Today, Penguin, 1983) Sharps and Flats (Granta 43, 1993), was incorporated into Hollinghurst's second novel, The Folding Star Highlights (Granta 100, 2007) Novels The Swimming-Pool Library, 1988 ISBN 978-0679722564 The Folding Star, 1994 ISBN 978-0099476917 The Spell, 1998 ISBN 978-0099276944 The Line of Beauty, 2004 ISBN 978-0330483216 The Stranger's Child, 2011 ISBN 978-0330483278 The Sparsholt Affair, 2017 ISBN 978-1447208228 Our Evenings, 2024 ISBN 978-1447208235 Translations Bajazet by Jean Racine, Chatto & Windus, 1991 ISBN 978-0701138530 Bérénice and Bajazet by Jean Racine, Faber and Faber, 2012 ISBN 978-0571299089 As editor New Writing 4 (with A. S. Byatt), 1995 ISBN 978-0099532316 A. E. Housman: poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst, Faber and Faber, 2001 ISBN 978-0571207053 Foreword Three Novels by Ronald Firbank, 2000 ISBN 978-0141182193 Awards and honours 1974: Newdigate Prize 1989: Somerset Maugham Award, for The Swimming Pool Library 1994: James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for The Folding Star 2004: Booker Prize, for The Line of Beauty 2011: Booker Prize, longlist for The Stranger's Child 2011: Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle Personal life Hollinghurst is gay and lives in London. Although he now lives with his partner Paul Mendez, Hollinghurst previously said: "I'm not at all easy to live with. I wish I could integrate writing into ordinary social life, but I don't seem to be able to. I could when I started [writing]. I suppose I had more energy then. Now I have to isolate myself for long periods." References External links An Interview at the Oxonian Review[usurped] Alan Hollinghurst at British Council: Literature includes a "Critical Perspective" section Alan Hollinghurst at The New York Review of Books Alan Hollinghust Profile in The Guardian 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show Peter Terzian (Winter 2011). "Alan Hollinghurst, The Art of Fiction No. 214". The Paris Review. Winter 2011 (199).. Discover the Alan Hollinghurst popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alan Hollinghurst books.
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith & Stephen CooteWhen Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverish...
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Volpone and Other Plays
Ben Jonson & Michael JamiesonThe three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a ri...
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A Secret Place
Ella BroussardMaddie is a busy girl with a dream job location scout for a film company. When she's doublebooked to work on two features at once, she needs to manage her time very carefully....
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The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma
Lima Barreto'The seed of madness exists in all of us and with no warning may attack, overpower, crush and bury us ... ' Policarpo Quaresma fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, selfsty...
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The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English
Paula BurnettOver the last few decades Caribbean writers performance poets, newspaper poets, singersongwriters have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over ...
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Playtime
Andrew McMillanWINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2019‘Vivid, accessible and honest, sometimes uncomfortably so’ Alan Bennett, London Review of BooksIn these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, An...
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Ms Behaviour
Mini LeeSanta is a university student with a wonderful new boyfriend and bright future. However, she's also a bad girl with a wild streak who cultivates an illicit and obsessive reationsh...
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The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan HollinghurstThe dazzling first novel from the bestselling, Booker PrizeWinning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair. An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality befor...
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The Confessions of an English Slave
Yolanda CelbridgeIntroduced to the joys of barebottom discipline by lustful ladies, naval cadet Philip Demesne, posted to the Far East, painfully learns true submission from the voluptuous dominatr...
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The Joy of Writing Sex
Elizabeth BenedictTwelve years after it was first published, The Joy of Writing Sex remains the classic writer's resource on creating compelling sex scenes. Elizabeth Benedict covers all the issues,...
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Viajeros
VV.AA«Es muy probable que la literatura nazca, en gran medida, del viaje, del relato que el nómada compartía alrededor del fuego. El relato del viajero está seguramente en el origen de ...
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy, Ronald Wilks, Anthony Briggs & David McDuffThis edition includes: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Happy Ever After, and The Cossacks. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume ar...
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Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe
Evan JamesNamed one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, “a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family’s insanely dramatic summer at their new island home” (Cosmo...
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The Children Of Dynmouth
William TrevorThe Children Of Dynmouth a classic prizewinning novel by William TrevorPenguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. The 1970s was a decade of anger and d...
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The Confidence-man
Herman MelvilleOnboard the Fidèle, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous gu...
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Haunted
Laura ThorntonWhen Sasha comes across an old diary belonging to the late Lady Amelia Asher, the centuriesold manuscript transforms her life drastically. From the mundane and unappealing, Sasha f...
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Customs Of The Country
Rupert ThomasThe year is 1924. James Cardell has just left school and is preparing for Oxford. However, before the strict routine of university life begins, he is allowed to spend the summer ho...
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In the Absence of Men
Philippe Besson & Frank Wynne'An astonishing love story, beautifully told' Time Out'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century'It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. ...
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Odyssey
Katrina Vincenzi-ThyneHistorian Julia Symonds is beginning to lose her patience with David, her patronising and overbearing fiancé, as they cruise around the Mediterranean. Then she is approached by the...
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Mademoiselle de Maupin
Theophile Gautier & Helen ConstantineChevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Ros...
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Escape To London
Mary Jane StaplesAustria, 1938. Anne von Korvacs watches in horror as Hitler's tanks roll through the streets of Vienna, amid crowds of cheering supporters. Her embittered exhusband, now a fervent ...
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The Saga of Grettir the Strong
Örnólfur ThorssonComposed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an elev...
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Sex and Sensibility in the Novels of Alan Hollinghurst
Mark MathurayWinner of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) 2017 Edited Collection PrizeThis book is a challenging and engaging collection of original essays on the...
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The Double Tenth
George BrownMalaya, 1952 The War of the Running Dogs.They shot the Chinese courier and took the documents he was carrying. Then they cut off his hands and rolled him into a shallow grave.Anot...
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Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot & Michael HenryDenis Diderot (17131784) was among the greatest writers of the Enlightenment, and in Jacques the Fatalist he brilliantly challenged the artificialities of conventional French ficti...
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Men and Masculinity. The Presentation of Men and Male Relationships in Three Contemporary British Novels
Symon NicklasThe 1990s has witnessed a groundswell of interest in men and masculinity. The book market saw countless publications, the media took up the topic and discussions about the 'ninetie...
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Asleep and Awake
John FullerAn elegantly jubilant and personal new collection celebrating love, life and creativity from awardwinning poet and Booker Prizeshortlisted novelist, John FullerIn this personal and...
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Wicked Words 7
Various ArtistsWicked Words a collection of saucy and compelling short storiesOutrageous sex and saucy seduction abound in the seventh volume of Wicked Words erotic short stories. Written by wom...
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One Tongue Singing
Susan MannCamille Pascal, a young, unmarried French nurse comes to South Africa with her father and her small daughter, Zara, during the closing years of the apartheid regime. The family set...
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Javascotia
Benjamin OblerMelvin Podgorski is young, naïve, American and a coffee fanatic. It's this passion that leads him from his native Chicago to 1990s Glasgow to scout out the prospects for a US coff...
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The Sound Of Distant Cheering
K M PeytonRosy Weeks works for a local horse trainer at a oncesuccessful stable, now fallen on hard times. In love with the morose owner and passionate about her favourite horse, Roly Fox, c...
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Sureforce
Phil VotelWorkingclass Manchester: a seedy underworld populated in part by rough, butch security guards and clubowners. Amongst its denizens is Matt, recently discharged from Her Majesty'...
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The Spell
Alan Hollinghurst"The "spell" of the title is both the power of drugs, at the heart of the book, and the "sexmagic" that variously possesses but then deserts each of its main characters." The Gu...
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Like Water In Wild Places
Pamela JoosteThe stories and legends of the Bushmen were told to Conrad when he was twelve years old. He was on a hunting trip with his father, Jack Hartmann, a brutal but confused man who 'ga...
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Washington Square
Henry James & Martha BantaWhen timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortunehunter, decides to put a sto...
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Penny in Harness
Penny BirchWhen naughty Penny Birch is walking in the woods one day, she is surprised to find a couple ponycarting. Penny is so excited by watching this new form of adult fun that she has to ...
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Up Close and Personal
Leonie FoxJuliet, Nicole and Yasmin. Best Friends Forever. Stunning, sexy and anything but sensible.Yasmin is a straighttalking game player who's got nostrings sex down to a T. So why is ...
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The Blue Hotel
Cherri PickfordRamon can't understand why bestselling author Floy Pennington has come to stay at his quiet hotel in rural England. All he knows is that she denies him the knowledge of her body th...
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Wild Card
Madeline MooreWinner takes all...When Victoria Ashe lures an exlover to her London hotel room, their passion is reignited with startling intensity. She's out to prove to Ray that intimacy can be...
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The Black Garter
Lisette AshtonRuthless and beautiful, Hera leads the Black Garter with a merciless hand. Her elite group of prefects secretly patrols the Kilgrimol Finishing School for Young Ladies. They help h...
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Chance
Joseph Conrad'It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being...
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Vainglory
Ronald FirbankThe fairly young and entirely alive Mrs Shamefoot wants nothing more than to have a memorial stainedglass window erected in her honour in an English cathedral. From this premise, t...
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Dads
Gil McNeil & Sarah BrownThey may be your inspiration or your best friend, kind protectors or big on homework and manners, there for the first nappy change or always down the pub but there is no one else ...