The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst af Hollinghurst, Alan (Bog)

The Folding Star : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099476917 : : 16 May 1995 : 'An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery..The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour' Evening Standard Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Forlag: Vintage Books USA Udgivelsesår: 1995 Sider: 434 Sprog: Engelsk

Comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, Justin, Danny and Alex. As each falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the clashing imperatives of gay life, the hunger for contact, the fear of commitment, and the need for permanence. Forlag: Vintage Udgivelsesår: 1999 Sider: 274 Sprog: Engelsk

For Shahid - London-studerende med muslimsk baggrund - er 1989 en tid præget af racemodsætninger, religiøse stridigheder, IRA-terror, stoffer og vilde fester. Og han har svært ved at finde et ståsted Titel: The black album Genre: Thriller Sammendrag: Shahid, a clean-cut young man from the provinces, comes to London after the death of his father. In the capital he falls in love with Deedee Osgood, a college lecturer, and finds himself passionately embroiled in a spiritual battle between liberalism and fundamentalism. The Black Album is set in the London of 1989, the year after the second summer of love and the year the infamous fatwah was imposed on Salman Rushdie. It is a thriller for the rave generation by one of the most praised and influential writers of the times. Type: Paperback

Humoristisk roman om dronning Elizabeths læsevaner Forfatter: Alan Bennett Forlag: Profile Udgivelsesår: 2007 Sider: 124 Sprog: Engelsk

Ud af malstrømmen af Alan Silitoe (bog)

The acclaimed author of "The Book of Evidence" takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of serpentine menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award. Forlag: Picador Udgivelsesår: 1998 Sider: 405 Sprog: Engelsk

Mr. Golightly er ophavsmand til en gammel, verdensberømt bog, som dog ikke læses meget mere. På ferie i en engelsk landsby håber han at ajourføre bogen, og selv komme mere ajour med den moderne verden. Men hans nye naboer og hans egne tanker om hans søns tragiske død optager ham. Forfatter: Salley Vickers Forlag: Harper Perennial Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sider: 352 Sprog: Engelsk

Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel of a man, he knows what he wants and he's sharp enough to get it. And before long, his carryings-on with a couple of married women is local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl in a pub, and Arthur's life begins to look less simple. Allan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950's is a story of timeless significance. The film of the novel, starring Albert Finney, transformed British cinema and was much imitated. "That rarest of all finds: a genuine no-punches-pulled, unromanticised working class novel. Mr Sillitoe is a born writer, who knows his milieu and describes it with vivid, loving precision." - "Daily Telegraph". "His writing has real experience in it and an instinctive accuracy that never loses its touch. His book has a glow about it as though