I Killed HemingwayThe author of Stark Raving Elvis writes a riotous literary tour de force. An erstwhile Hemingway scholar literary hack agrees to ghost a manuscript for an irascible 60 year old derelict, who claims Hemingway, his alleged protege, was a plagiarist. When the book becomes an instant bestseller, the remorseful writer must try to harness the forces he helped to unleash, as the media turns scandal into history revised.

the beckoning starvation line encourages him to accept a commission to write the biography of a National Hunt racehorse trainer

he is swiftly removed from the project

an old-school rancher

Josh finds himself in the middle of a nightmare

And Portman finds himself at the top of the list

He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears

This is the first of many novels tackling secrets and the state

A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom

In December

each said to have been pierced by an ARROW and left holding an odd illustrated card

The Spell confirms Alan Hollinghurst as one of Britain's most important novelists

about a man who