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What we’re reading: Alan Hollinghurst, Samantha Harvey and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in December

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable’: novelist Alan Hollinghurst

A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty… the author on a year of personal success and political change

The Guardian - UK

Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’

The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie Smith

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Alan Hollinghurst wins David Cohen lifetime award for ‘pioneering’ novels

Author says he is ‘overcome with emotion’ after winning £40,000 honour for books including The Line of Beauty and The Swimming-Pool Library

The Guardian - UK

Line of Beauty at Almeida Theatre: 'Hugely entertaining skim across shiny 80s Britain'

4/5 This adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel looks at Thatcherism, the AIDS crisis and class in 80s Britain in satirical fashion

Evening Standard

The Line of Beauty review – Hollinghurst’s Gatsby-esque social satire is a class act

Jack Holden has elegantly adapted Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker winner about class envy, gay culture and political scandal in 80s Britain

The Guardian - UK

This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions

Former winner Kiran Desai leads a varied field, while Alan Hollinghurst misses out

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Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’

Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’

The Guardian - UK

Stars, shockers, psychos and evangelists: Rupert Goold’s mighty end to his high-wire Almeida tenure

A smattering of famous names, a big-ambition project, a gay classic and a musical thriller … the powerhouse artistic director’s final productions have all his hallmarks, showing how he made this small theatre so formidable

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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The Guardian - UK

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

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

Evening Standard

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

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The Guardian - UK

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 Independent UK

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

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

The Guardian - 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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