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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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 ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 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. There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye ...Show more
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
34.95 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, 2004. The book, set in the 1980's, begins when 20 year old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Tory MP Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel and their two children. As the Thatcher boom-years unfold, Nick finds his life al ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"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 1940 ...Show more
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
19.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"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 ...Show more
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Anthony Quinn 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 w ...Show more
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Alan 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 dep ...Show more
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