It’s 20 years since Alan Hollinghurst last appeared at Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki as a freshly minted Booker Prize winner for The Line of Beauty.

The Stranger’s Child and The Sparsholt Affair followed to huge acclaim and his latest novel, Our Evenings, has had a rapturous reception from readers and critics alike.

Both a novel of ideas, and one man’s personal odyssey through a changing Britain from the 1960s to present day, it prompted The Times to describe him as “an English stylist without obvious living equal”, The Financial Times “almost Austenian in his eye for social comedy” and The Sunday Times to declare it “the best novel that’s been written about contemporary Britain in the past 10 years”.

Don’t miss his long-awaited Festival return as he joins Victor Rodger in conversation.

Supported by Platinum Patron Kevin Ramsbottom-Isherwood.