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A century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth,
and a family mystery, across generations. With an introduction by
Anthony Quinn. The Stranger's Child was a Sunday Times Novel of the
Year. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge
friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family
home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for
everyone, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that
it will have the most lasting impact. As the decades pass, Daphne
and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and
circumstance and, as reputations rise and fall, the events of that
long-ago summer become part of a legendary story. Longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger's Child is Hollinghurst's
masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes. Epic
in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and
the ways memory - and myth - can be built and broken. It is a
powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.
In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others – particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one momentous term, David and Evert forge an unlikely friendship that will colour their lives for decades to come . . .
Alan Hollinghurst’s masterly new novel evokes the intimate relationships of a group of friends bound together by art, literature and love across three generations. It explores the social and sexual revolutions of the most pivotal years of the past century, whose life-changing consequences are still being played out to this day. Richly observed, disarmingly witty and emotionally charged, The Sparsholt Affair is an unmissable achievement from one of our finest writers.
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Penelope Fitzgerald; Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC'S BETWEEN THE COVERS
BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of
loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of
the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. On
Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the
patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the
tide of the Thames. There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a
male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard,
an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the
Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two
young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic
predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community
together.
'Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about
the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst' —Esquire
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that
spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex
relationships of a remarkable family. In October 1940, the handsome
young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and
oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others
– particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a
celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While
the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an
ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal
secret liaisons. Over the course of one momentous term, David and
Evert forge an unlikely friendship that will colour their lives for
decades to come . . . Alan Hollinghurst’s sweeping novel evokes
the intimate relationships of a group of friends bound together by
art, literature and love across three generations. It explores the
social and sexual revolutions of the most pivotal years of the past
century, whose life-changing consequences are still being played
out to this day. Richly observed, disarmingly witty and emotionally
charged, The Sparsholt Affair is an unmissable achievement from one
of our finest writers. 'Startling, radical, embedded in tradition
but entirely new' - Guardian 'A master storyteller' - John Banville
Sunday Times Novel of the Year Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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 friend Cecil
Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The
weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but
it is on George’s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will
have the most lasting impact. As the decades pass, Daphne and those
around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance,
and as reputations rise and fall, the events of that long-ago
summer become part of a legendary story. The Stranger’s Child is
Hollinghurst’s masterly exploration of English culture, taste and
attitudes. Epic in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but
changing world and the ways memory – and myth – can be built
and broken. It is a powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.
An essay by Xavier F. Salomon paired with a contribution by
award-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst bring to life Jean-Honore
Fragonard's (1732-1806) Progress of Love, a series of fourteen
paintings considered by many to be the artist's masterpiece. The
first four paintings were commissioned in 1771 for the comtesse du
Barry, to be installed in 1772 in Louveciennes, the pavilion
outside Paris built for her by her lover, Louis XV. By 1773 the
canvases, The Pursuit, The Meeting, The Lover Crowned and Love
Letters, had been rejected by Du Barry and returned to the artist.
In 1790 Fragonard moved the canvases to his cousin's house, the
Villa Maubert, in Grasse, and over the course of the year painted
ten additional panels: two large-scale works, Love Triumphant and
Reverie; four narrow "strips" depicting hollyhocks, and four
overdoors of putti. Sold by the Maubert estate to the dealer
Agnew's in 1898, the works were purchased in February 1915 by the
industrialist Henry Clay Frick. By May 1916 the panels were
installed at Frick's new mansion in New York in the present-day
Fragonard Room in The Frick Collection.
In 2018 the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the
Royal Academy of Arts will host major exhibitions of the work of
Tacita Dean. Each will provide a different encounter with her art.
This book brings together new and existing works from all three
exhibitions - LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE - with texts offering
a unique insight into Dean's work by leading writers including
Alexandra Harris, Alan Hollinghurst and Ali Smith. Published at a
particularly prolific period for Dean, this book provides a new and
authoritative view of a hugely influential artist who has been at
the forefront of British art for over twenty years. The volume is
published with three different covers.
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books There was the soft glare
of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion,
the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart
running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and
said, 'Prime Minister, would you like to dance?' In the summer of
1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the
Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory
MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. Innocent
of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and
an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own
private obsession with beauty. The Line of Beauty is Alan
Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. It is a novel
that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man's
collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly
belong to. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a
classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret
Thatcher's 1980s Britain. Part of the Picador Collection, a series
showcasing the best of modern literature.
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, but in his London life it will be
the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy
responsibility. At the boom years of the mid-80s unfold, Nick
becomes caught up in the Feddens' world. In an era of endless
possibility, Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private
obsession, with beauty - a prize as compelling to him as power and
riches are to his friends.
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 Nantwich's diaries. But
in the story he unravels, a tragedy of twentieth-century gay
repression, lurk bitter truths about Will's own privileged
existence.
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 brings Thatcher's London
alive.
A "New York Times "Bestseller (Extended) - A "LA Times "Bestseller
List - A Book Sense National Bestseller - A Northern California
Bestseller - A "Sunday Times "Bestseller List - A "New York Times
"Notable Book of the Year
And chosen as one of the best books of 2004 by:
"Entertainment Weekly "- "The ""Washington"" Post "-" The ""San
Francisco"" Chronicle "- "The ""Seattle"" Times"
"Newsday " - "Salon.com" - "The ""Boston"" Globe "- "The ""New
York"" Sun" - "The ""Miami"" Herald " - "The ""Dallas"" Morning
News" - "San Jose"" Mercury News" - "Publishers Weekly"
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 Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
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 meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.
A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped
and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period.
Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and
here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year,
1936. They worked hard to establish themselves, first through the
GPO film unit, in a collaboration which flowered and spilled over
into the theatre, and then radio - a new medium that the liveliest
creative minds of the time were exploring and exploiting. Britten
and Auden also joined forces in works destined for the recital room
and concert hall, among them Our Hunting Fathers, the political
symbolism of which Donald Mitchell examines in depth, and On the
Island, settings of early Auden that comprised Britten's first
important set of songs to English texts. Much use is made of
Britten's private diaries, which he kept on a daily basis, and a
revealing portrait emerges of the two men's relationship, of their
work together in many different fields, and of the reflection
within that work of political ideas current at the time. DONALD
MITCHELL was Britten's close friend and publisher from 1964 until
the end of the composer's life, and his authorised biographer. The
T S Eliot Memorial Lectures delivered in 1979
The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's Sunday Times Novel of
the Year. 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 for ever, having the most lasting impact on
George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne. As the decades pass,
Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and
circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and
hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a
legendary story, told and interpreted in different ways by
successive generations. Powerful, absorbing and richly comic, The
Stranger's Child is a masterly exploration of English culture,
taste and attitudes over a century of change.
Alan Hollinghurst's new novel is a comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover, Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside; Robin's 22 year old son Danny, a volatile beauty who lives for clubbing and casual sex; and the shy Alex, whose life is transformed by house music and a tab of ecstasy. As each in turn falls under the spell of romance or drugs,country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life, the hunger for contact and the fear of commitment, the need for permanence and the continual disruptions of sex. At once lyrical and farcical, sceptical and romantic, the SPELL confirms Alan Hollinghurst as one of Britain's most important novelists.
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Alan Hollinghurst
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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 son Danny; and Justin's
former boyfriend Alex, whose life is unexpectedly transformed by a
night of house music and a tab of ecstasy. As each falls under the
spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly
ironic picture emerges of the illusions of love, and of the
clashing imperatives of modern gay life: the hunger for contact and
the fear of commitment, the need for permanence and the continual
disruptions of sex. Ultimately, The Spell details the restlessness
of every human heart.
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