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ratherbereading.bsky.social
Wow what a book! I’ve absolutely adored this. Feeling bereft it’s over 😭
#OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst
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February 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
agniesz.bsky.social
People are lovely because we love them, not the other way round.

- Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
born on this day, 1954

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May 26, 2026 at 8:30 AM
moochie6us.bsky.social
Recently finished #We'llPrescribeYouACat #SyouIshida Two-and-a-half out of four stars. Might recommend. Might read again. "Shuta Kagawa stood at the end of a shadowy alley, gazing up at a multipurpose building." Continuing with: #TheSwimming-PoolLibrary #AlanHollinghurst
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July 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
gustavseibt.bsky.social
Übrigens wäre #AlanHollinghurst heute eine Wahl, die selbst etwas von guter Literatur hätte: im ersten Moment überraschend, dann sofort frappierend überzeugend.
October 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
wintersparv.com
There is no heartbreak so physical as unrequited passion, that is so unfathomable, it can barely be contained in your own mind. #OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst #booksky
July 10, 2026 at 7:50 AM
moochie6us.bsky.social
💙📚 Recently finished #TheSwimming-PoolLibrary #AlanHollinghurst Two-and-a-half out of four stars (not a very likeable main character, too hedonistic and not enough to redeem him imho). Might recommend. This was a reread for me so will probably not read again. "I came home on the last train." more ⬇️
July 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
gillpaulauthor.bsky.social
An amazing reading month. I can't recommend these highly enough. Three of them made me cry (see if you can guess which ones), and I don't cry easily. Thank you #AlanHollinghurst @marnieriches.bsky.social #elizabethstrout #colmtoibin #robertseethaler #jessicaanyablau #booksworthreading #bookstagram
July 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
wintersparv.com
To think that not long ago, people chose not to enter a new topic in a conversation, because the money in the pay phone was about to run out. #OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst #booksky
July 21, 2026 at 11:26 PM
queerazon.bsky.social
Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst

From the Booker Prize–winning author comes the story of Dave Win, navigating privilege, prejudice, queer love, and art across decades of British life. A sweeping, tender portrait of one man’s journey.

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August 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
marlboroughlitfest.bsky.social
We're so excited to announce our first headliner for this year's LitFest: #AlanHollinghurst @panmacmillan.bsky.social will be our 2025 #GoldingSpeaker With thanks to event sponsor @williamgolding.bsky.social Save the date for our 16th festival: 25-28 September! More info: bit.ly/4g8gW1e #MLF2025
January 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
tatevik.bsky.social
I just finished this - probably his best book (I've read all of them). I loved how much it reminded me of Iris Murdoch's writing (and I know he's a fan of hers). There's so much I want to say but instead of my words, read his own:
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
andy-french.bsky.social
Loving Alan Hollinghurt's OUR EVENINGS. I'm 1/10 of the way through and more engaged by this story than any of his novels since THE LINE OF BEAUTY. 
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An Exquisite Queer Odyssey by a Literary Master
In Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, “Our Evenings,” a Burmese English actor grapples with race and ambition, sexuality and love in a bigoted world.
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January 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social
Just finished #OurEvenings by #AlanHollinghurst and had a little cry. A lovely letter to a gay son and his mother. And what it means to love, and to grow old. Beautifully crafted writing. #BobReads #GayFiction
Photo of Our Evenings cover showing a man reclining on a bed smoking.
June 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
aycarambabookscom.bsky.social
A novel about acceptance: of time's passage, of life's limitations, of the small victories that make existence meaningful
Available here: www.aycaramba.us/product-page...

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December 9, 2024 at 7:10 PM
muchechops.bsky.social
#BookSky texts that impressed & stayed with you
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February 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
wintersparv.com
We lead lives of fleeting encounters that stay with us forever. #OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst #booksky
July 29, 2026 at 8:27 AM
idefkanymoreman.bsky.social
#30DayBookChallenge 🖋️📚💙

Day 22: An LGBTQ+ love story

I’ve already posted books by #AlanHollinghurst #JamesBaldwin #AndrewSeanGreer #EdmundWhite and #AliSmith

Smith, while queer, doesn’t always focus on sapphic affairs tho. So a sapphic love story:

Matrix - Lauren Groff
Matrix cover a blurb from Madeline Miller who wrote a gay love story that I used as my popular book I hate
April 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
lucyjpop.bsky.social
I loved #JackHolden's adaptation of The Line of Beauty by #AlanHollinghurst - Beautifully cast & brilliantly directed by #MichaelGrandage Herewith my 5* review for @islingtontrib.bsky.social @almeida.co.uk til Nov 29. www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/revi...
Review: The Line of Beauty, at Almeida Theatre
Mesmerising coming-of-age tale is an evocative portrait of Thatcher’s Britain
www.islingtontribune.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
wintersparv.com
There are times when #AlanHollinghurst seems to be trapped in a time period—and I’ll happily be trapped with him. #OurEvenings #booksky
June 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
idefkanymoreman.bsky.social
#30DayBookChallenge 🖋️📚💙

Day 3: A book you didn’t finish

I don’t finish *a lot* of books mostly bc I see where they’re going and I get easily distracted, but I’ll pick one I haven’t finished but *really want to and have been meaning to get back to*:

The Line of Beauty - #AlanHollinghurst
March 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
westendtheatre.com
Michael Grandage to direct The Line of Beauty at London’s Almeida Theatre

More: www.westendtheatre.com/293598/

#AlanHollinghurst ’s Booker Prize-winning novel #TheLineOfBeauty is set for a major stage adaptation by #JackHolden, directed by #MichaelGrandage

#AlmeidaTheatre from 21 Oct to 29 Nov
Michael Grandage to direct The Line of Beauty at London’s Almeida Theatre | West End Theatre
Michael Grandage directs Jack Holden’s new adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty at the Almeida Theatre, running 21 October – 29 November 2025
www.westendtheatre.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
newtownbooks.bsky.social
ICYMI this week's reviews:
Ann Skea on Maja Lunde's latest novel The Dream of a Tree
Catherine Pardey on Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings
Find them both at newtownreviewofbooks.com.au
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Image of cover of book The Dream of a Tree by Maja Lunde, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books. Image of cover of book Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst, reviewed by Catherine Pardey in the Newtown Review of Books.
March 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
westendtheatre.com
Cast announced for #AlanHollinghurst #TheLineofBeauty at #AlmeidaTheatre adapted by #JackHolden

www.westendtheatre.com/308413/news/...

Directed by #MichaelGrandage

Stars #FrancescaAmewudahRivers #CharlesEdwards #JasperTalbot

21 Oct-29 Nov

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Cast announced for The Line of Beauty at London’s Almeida Theatre including Jasper Talbot, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers & Charles Edwards | West End Theatre
Full casting has been announced for director Michael Grandage's world premiere production of The Line of Beauty at the Almeida Theatre in London.
www.westendtheatre.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
anothercinna.bsky.social
Also, an absolutely perfect portrait of British theatre in the last 50 years, where only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. #OurEvenings by #AlanHollinghurst, beautifully read by #SteveJohnShepherd.
December 12, 2024 at 8:21 AM
skateellis.bsky.social
The wordless coming out between a mother and her son in the early 1960s. I’m going to miss this book so much.

#OurEvenings #AlanHollinghurst
An excerpt from Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings, in which a young boy coming to terms with his queerness quietly realizes that his mother is in a lesbian relationship: “Mum and Esme kept separate addresses until I left school, and then, much as conscientious parents delay a divorce for the sake of the children, they did the opposite, and moved in together.”
December 15, 2024 at 9:36 AM