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Alan Hollinghurst, English novelist known for his sweeping literary works and winner of the Booker Prize.

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The Bookshelf
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson

Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair is published by Picador.

The Bookshelf
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson

And same for you, Alan.

The Bookshelf
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson

Hollinghurst notes that nobody seems to be paying any attention to the paintings.

The Bookshelf
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson

I like Hollinghurst, I think, because...

The Bookshelf
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson

In some ways it's perhaps doing Hollinghurst an injustice to call it gay literature because I think what he's doing increasingly, and perhaps even more so here than in The Line of Beauty, is that he's using gay life as a way of exploring all sorts of other things.

The Bookshelf
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson

And I've seen that Alan Hollinghurst has said that that was his intention, that that should happen offstage and that that event, which is central to the novel, should nonetheless happen offstage and be dealt with in sort of a vague way.

The Bookshelf
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson

One of the most interesting things in terms of the periods covered in this novel for me, of course, is that Hollinghurst doesn't take us back to the 1980s.