The Swimming-Pool Library

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‘A lost world of louche living and erotic late-night liaisons...that still carries an illicit thrill’ Vogue

Will spends his days, and his trust fund, idly cruising 1980s London for erotic encounters – until a chance meeting with an older man draws him to unravel a tragic tale of repression that leads far too close to home.

A literary mystery, an erotic tour de force, The Swimming-Pool Library recalls a lost queer London with vivid clarity and masterfully uncovers its secrets.

‘A work of revolutionary candor that laid bare, in exquisite prose, the cut and thrust of queer existence.’ New Yorker

Vintage Desire: classic stories of lust and longing.

About Alan Hollinghurst

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, and was selected as one of the Best of 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. His novel The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in 2004. His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, was published in 2017.

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