Offer now expired: Guardian Review Book Club with Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst will be in conversation with John Mullan about his Booker-winning novel, The Line of Beauty . Summer 1983. Nick Guest, a young outsider, moves into the Notting Hill household of the Fedden family – his fellow Oxford graduate Toby, Toby's bi-polar sister Catherine, their wealthy mother Rachel and her husband, ambitious Tory MP Gerald. In the heady boom years of the early 80s, Nick is seduced by the Feddens' world of money and privilege, and equally drawn to the freedoms and possibilities of metropolitan gay life. Through Nick's relationship with the super-rich Wani Ouradi, and the rising and falling fortunes of the Fedden family, the novel examines the wider political context of a greedy, ruthless decade – there is even a cameo for Margaret Thatcher herself – and the dark spectre of the AIDS epidemic looms over the latter stages of the novel. Hosted by John Mullan, professor of English at University College London, the Guardian's Book Club examines a book a month, via a weekly column in the Guardian Review and a live Q&A session with the author. To be the first to hear about our forthcoming events and featured authors sign up here to receive our regular monthly newsletter. To find out more visit www.theguardian.com/books/series/bookclub Tickets to the event are £9.50 online or £11.50 from the box office. Buy tickets online at www.kingsplace.co.uk Box Office: 020 7520 1490 Help with Offers and Events • Extra is free to join. You need to be a member of Extra in order to see the redemption pages. To register your email address for the first time click 'take up this offer' • Members also need to sign in to theguardian.com at the top left of the screen to be able to take up offers, book tickets or enter competitions.