On holiday in Devon with Mum and Esme, Dave thoughts wander to the barely-clad men on the beach, in the next episode of Alan Hollinghurst's eagerly awaited new novel. The stunning new novel from the ...

Hollinghurst's latest novel, Our Evenings, also centres on a gay character, but dives into new territory for the author — writing from the point of view of a biracial character.

Racial politics have also played a part: from the very beginning, Hollinghurst’s cast list has included black characters, ...

Ever since his 1988 debut The Swimming-Pool Library caused a stir, Hollinghurst has captured the hedonism of affluent gay men with both candour and literary elegance. "He looks battered ...

Our Evenings” is a ruminative novel about a gay, biracial man growing up, coming out and making his way in the world.

Photo / supplied In 1988, when Alan Hollinghurst published his first novel, The Swimming Pool Library, it was original, ...

But his seventh novel feels topical for the way it retraces some of the steps that led to Britain’s Brexit vote in 2016 and its aftermath. “Our Evenings” is narrated by an outsider several times over.

From the opening page, there is the assurance of being in good hands with this novel, the ease of the first chapter allowing you to settle in ...

In a technique he first tried in The Stranger’s Child, his 2011 novel about the changing reputation of a minor First World ...

First, here are four stories from The Atlantic ’s Books section: ...

Residents of Presteigne came out in their numbers to the towns’ Remembrance Sunday services to show their respects to the ...