{"title":"Alan Hollinghurst","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the books of \u003cstrong\u003eAlan Hollinghurst\u003c\/strong\u003e, all in one place. Bestsellers in our range include \u003cem\u003eOur Evenings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sparsholt Affair\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Line of Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for adult readers. Browse every Alan Hollinghurst book we stock below, with delivery across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780330483216","title":"The Line of Beauty","description":"One of the most critically acclaimed books of 2004, The Line of Beauty is a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money that brings Thatcher's London alive. Nick Guest has moved in with the Feddens, a family whose patriarch is a conservative Member of Parliament. An innocent in matters of politics and money, Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens' world of parties and excess, as well as in his own privat pursuit of beauty. Framed by the two general elections that returned Margaret Thatcher to power, The Line of Beauty unfurls through four exrraordinary years of change and tragedy.\r\n--back cover","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32040239988851,"sku":"9780330483216","price":271.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/line-of-beauty-alan-hollinghurst-15209439428723.jpg?v=1637627759"},{"product_id":"9781447208242","title":"Our Evenings","description":"Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age.Dave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles' envy and violence.As their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys' careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.Our Evenings is Dave Win's own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45358928822387,"sku":"9781447208242","price":271.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/6992053482703.jpg?v=1789069152"},{"product_id":"9781035028023","title":"The Sparsholt Affair","description":"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.\n \n 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 . . .\n \n 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.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45358993342579,"sku":"9781035028023","price":271.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/13800993482556.jpg?v=1789840804"},{"product_id":"9781035038534","title":"Our Evenings","description":"Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I’d lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.\n\nDave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the Hadlows, the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school where their son Giles is his contemporary. For Dave this weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to Giles’s envy and violence. As Our Evenings unfolds over half a century, the two boys’ careers will diverge dramatically, Dave a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.\n\nOur Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security; but it is also, very movingly, the story of his hard-working widowed mother, whose own life takes an unexpected new turn after her son leaves home.\n\nBoth dark and luminous, poignant and wickedly funny, Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel gives us a portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from the finest writer of our age.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45359108849779,"sku":"9781035038534","price":366.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/13906103482556.jpg?v=1789726513"}],"url":"https:\/\/readerswarehouse.us\/collections\/alan-hollinghurst-books.oembed","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}