The annual Pride Parade saw departments compete to design and build themed floats, each carrying a message of love, inclusion ...

Alan Hollinghurst doesn’t write quickly. In 30 years, the British author has penned just six novels, however this relatively small collection of beautifully crafted work has earned him a rabid ...

One of the most frequently hailed signs of social progress in the last 50 years is the growing acceptance and mainstreaming of homosexuality in the Western world. No novelist has chronicled this ...

This is FRESH AIR. Our critic at large John Powers has a review of a new book by one of his favorite authors - the Booker Prize-winning English writer Alan Hollinghurst. It's called "The Sparsholt ...

British author Alan Hollinghurst writes fat novels — and they’re fat for good reason. Hollinghurst wants you to have an all-encompassing sense of your surroundings: the light, the furnishings, the ...

Sparsholt CC XI delivered a commanding performance to defeat Paultons CC 1st XI by 101 runs in the National Village Cup Group 22 clash on Sunday. Batting first after winning the toss, Sparsholt ...

Alan Hollinghurst’s sixth novel, The Sparsholt Affair, opens in Oxford during the second world war and ends in London in 2012. As with its predecessor, The Stranger’s Child (2011), much of the action ...

Hollinghurst's new domestic epic leapfrogs across seven decades to examine how the laws of social propriety shape the destinies of a father and son. Critic John Powers says the novel is fascinating.

One of the most frequently hailed signs of social progress in the last 50 years is the growing acceptance and mainstreaming of homosexuality in the Western world. No novelist has chronicled this ...