Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving - a perfectly realized tale of our times.

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty and The Stranger's Child. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.