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David Sparsholt, a spectacularly handsome young newcomer built "like a Greek god," ignites curiosity and fancy as they ogle him lifting weights in his room across the dusky courtyard, just before ...
(Common Room screenshot) After two years of testing and $52 million in funding, Common Room is releasing its software in the wild. The Seattle startup on Thursday made its “intelligent community ...
This is the Sparsholt affair of the title. Ironically, had the events occurred just a year or two later, there would have been no problem because the law on homosexuality was changed.
In The Sparsholt Affair these signature features reappear, supporting the subtle development of Johnny’s interior life. Relying on oblique strategy, the narrative is marked by gaps and omissions. For ...
Alan Hollingshurst. Robert Taylor Photography. The Sparsholt Affair begins with the brief memoir of a supporting character, Freddie Green, one of a group of young friends at Oxford in 1940, all of ...
The narrative of The Sparsholt Affair, like his other work – most notably The Stranger’s Child and The Line of Beauty – is heavily directed by action that takes place off-stage and in ...
A SUBSTANTIAL four-bedroom barn-style house is on the market. The house, called The New Granary, is in Church Farm, Sparsholt, and is being sold through Belgarum with a guide price of £2,095,000.
My partner went for the Winchester Cheddar and Onion Tart offering a delightful mix of rich, sharp cheddar and sweet caramelized onions in a buttery, flaky crust.
OUR FARM INSTITUTE SAT ASTRIDE THE ROLLING HAMPSHIRE DOWNS, AT THE THEN QUITE ISOLATED SPOT OF SPARSHOLT, SOME FOUR MILES OUT OF WINCHESTER ON THE STOCKBRIDGE SIDE. I HAD BEEN ONE OF THE LAST FULL ...
The Sparsholt Affair is Alan Hollingworth's sixth novel; all six are a collected unfolding, and deepening calibration of his constant preoccupations: aesthetics, gender, sex, politics, money.