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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Olivia Laing |Alan Hollinghurst |Adam Mars-Jones
‘He showed me gay fiction could also be high art’Alan HollinghurstBritish novelistEdmund White’s luminous career was in part a matter of often dark history: he lived through it all. He was a gay teenager in an age of repression, self-hatred and anxious longing for a “cure”; he was a young man in the heyday of gay liberation, and the libidinous free-for-all of 1970s New York; he was a witness to the terrifying destruction of the gay world in the Aids epidemic in the 1980s and 90s.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
thegoodwebguide.co.uk | Eimear McBride |Alan Hollinghurst |Pollyanna Wilkinson |Holly Watt
We know how difficult it is to find time to settle with a cracking book and we’re determined to make it so that whenever you do, you’re reading nuggets of gold. Here, we give you our pick of 2025’s new releases. The City Changes Its Face By Eimear McbrideEmotions, secrets and ambitions come bubbling to the surface in this masterful novel, set in the 1990s, about… love. Order this, the latest offering from award-winning Irish novelist Eimear McBride, immediately.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Alan Hollinghurst |Clement Yong
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
mcnallyrobinson.com | Alan Hollinghurst
Our Evenings Hardcover $38.00Reader Reward Price: $34.20 Fiction / LiteraryFiction / HistoricalFiction / LGBTQ+ / GayFrom the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience, as he struggles with class and race, art and sexuality, love and violence. "The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time." --The GuardianDid I have a grievance?
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Rachel Kushner |Alan Hollinghurst |Sarah Chapelle |Ian Williams
Check out some of the books discussed on national CBC Radio programs between Nov. 5-12, 2024. Creation Lake by Rachel KushnerCreation Lake is a novel by Rachel Kushner. (Chloe Aftel, Scribner)Heard on:Bookends with Mattea RoachCreation Lake tells the story of Sadie, an undercover agent tasked with sabotaging a young group of activists. But as the writings of a radical thinker named Bruno start to infiltrate her mind, Sadie starts to rethink her choices and the consequences of her transient life.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Alan Hollinghurst
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In practically his first audiobook credit, British actor Prasanna Puwanarajah delivers a masterful performance as David Win, the British Burmese protagonist in this latest by one of Britain's most esteemed novelists. Like earlier Hollinghurst protagonists, David is a prism: a gay outsider who is given entry into a world of wealth and privilege. The action is subdued, episodic, advanced mainly by dialogue and subtle interplay.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thefreelibrary.com | Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst's exquisitely fashioned seventh novel arrives in the form of the memoir of David Win, a gay, mixed-race, somewhat successful actor in British experimental theater. The novel opens with a prologue in which David acknowledges the death of Mark Hadlow, "an ethical businessman, a major philanthropist, married to one woman for seventy years." Mark and his wife, Cara, changed David's life by awarding him a scholarship to attend an elite English boarding school.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
shelf-awareness.com | Shion Miura |Yui Kajita |Alan Hollinghurst |Grey Wolfe LaJoie
Every year, the fall season arrives with an avalanche of books, and so for the next several weeks, Shelf Awareness will be spotlighting as many of our favorites as we can in newsletters delivered on both Tuesdays and Fridays! In today's issue, there's American Rapture by CJ Leede, an adrenaline rush of a horror novel about a virus that unleashes an insatiable--and fatal--lust in its victims; and My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss, a rigorous, innovative memoir that rearranges fairy tale...
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
anothermag.com | Sally Rooney |Alan Hollinghurst |Rachel Kushner |Tessa Hadley
From Murakami’s first novel in six years to a joint biography of writers/frenemies Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, here are ten new books to tuck into this autumn The end of summer is always pretty cruel, even if you’re a committed knitwear lover. There’s nowhere to escape, which is presumably why publishers roll out such bounty at this time of year.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
attitude.co.uk | Alan Hollinghurst |Alim Kheraj
Olly Alexander has announced his upcoming new album Polari and shared its lead single, the pounding banger ‘Cupid’s Bow’. Taking it’s name from the coded language previously used by gay men – which itself originated from the Romani community in the 1600s – the record is Alexander’s first album to be released under his own name. He previously put out music with the band Years & Years.
