The Swimming Pool Library (Vintage Blue)

Author: Alan Hollinghurst

This darkly erotic work centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography…..Read More

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