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Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954. He is the author of one of the most highly praised first novels to appear in the 1980s, The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), and was selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists 1993. His second novel, The Folding Star, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. He has since written The Spell. He was on the staff of the Times Literary Supplement from 1982 to 1995.
A 33-year-old man, disaffected and in search of a new life, goes to an ancient Flemish city to teach English. The novel follows his infatuation with a pupil, and his subsequent affairs. It is a dark tale of unrequited gay love and sexual obsession. This was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. (Kirkus UK)
