Alan Hollinghurst | The Books That Made Me
Fri 24 Apr 2026 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm
We are sorry to announce that due to sickness, Alan Hollinghurst is no longer able to attend the Spring Festival. We have cancelled this event, and if you have bought a ticket you will have received an email about your options.
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Go All In to the books that have inspired the life and works of one of our literary greats, Sir Alan Hollinghurst and discover the books that have inspired and engaged him from his early life in Gloucestershire and Dorset via a degree from Oxford to a writer’s life in London. He won the prestigious 2025 David Cohen Prize for a body of work written in the English language.
Venue: Palmerston Room
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of six previous novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty (winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize), The Stranger’s Child and The Sparsholt Affair. He lives in London.
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