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A Room Above a Shop by Anthony Shapland review – a fantastic debut of forbidden desire

This spare, luminously pure novel charts a secret gay relationship in post-industrial Wales

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Hollinghurst ‘thrilled’ to be knighted by the King

Former Booker Prize winner Sir Alan Hollinghurst said the award made him ‘pleased for writing and for the novel’.

Evening Standard

Stephen Fry to be knighted by the King for services to charity

Sir Stephen, 67, known for BBC comedy Blackadder and hosting quiz show QI, will be honoured by the King at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

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In Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst takes an elegiac look at class, sexuality and race in post-Brexit Britain

Late in Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel Our Evenings, the narrator David Win, gracefully ageing doyen of the British stage, experiences one of those moments when the world is revealed to be other than he thought it was.

The Conversation

The Line Of Beauty author Alan Hollinghurst honoured with knighthood

He won the Booker Prize in 2004 for The Line Of Beauty, the first work of gay fiction to win the prestigious literary award.

Evening Standard

Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel is a sharp account of British theatre – and even pastiches my criticism

Our Evenings follows an actor through 60 years of treading the boards and holds up a mirror to how society has shapeshifted

The Guardian - UK

The best fiction of 2024

From Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo to Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings, Percival Everett’s James and a host of inventive debuts – this year’s highlights in fiction

The Guardian - UK

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Alan Hollinghurst: ‘I wrote letters to my schoolfriends in dwarfish runes’

The author on the brilliance of Burroughs, Penelope Fitzgerald’s concise mastery, and a teenage obsession with Middle-earth

The Guardian - UK

Sally Rooney, Hanif Kureishi, Elizabeth Strout: the best new books for Autumn

Discover the best new books this Autumn, from gripping novels to insightful memoirs

Evening Standard

Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst review – one for the ages

Key moments in an actor’s life over seven decades are illuminated with skill and quiet power in this languid and stately novel

The Guardian - UK

Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst review – his finest novel yet

Gay life in England across the decades, from the 1960s to the pandemic, is captured with glowing intensity through an actor’s memories

The Guardian - UK

Nearly half UK adults believe LGBTQ+ representation important in storytelling – study

The YouGov survey highlights the need for diverse characters and creators.

The Independent UK

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review – another weepy from a writer on a roll

The Booker winner’s follow-up to Shuggie Bain – a similarly stirring tale of precarious lives on a Glasgow council estate – proves his debut was no fluke

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