Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Ten of the best British political novels

At the Waterstones blog Mark Skinner tagged ten great Parliamentary page-turners. One title on the list:
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst

A profound panorama of British politics, sex and society in the Thatcherite 1980s, Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel sees naïve Nick Guest enter the orbit of a Tory MP and his glamorous family.
Read about the other titles on the list.

The Line of Beauty is among Deborah Parker and Mak Parker's ten biggest bootlickers from literature and history and Kwasi Kwarteng's top ten books about Thatcherism.

--Marshal Zeringue