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Anita Brookner
Since childhood, Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, from the hothouse attentions of her parents into the warmth of lovers and friends. Now Dr Weiss, at 40…
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Frances Hinton is shy and clever. By day she works in a medical library and every evening she goes back to the solitude of her London flat to write fiction…
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This brightly polished yet immensely touching comedy presents the romantic quest of Kitty Maule, who, in revenge against the impossibly charming and elusive man who rejects her, resolves to become…
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Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and…
Edith Wharton
Presents a tale about a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn’t know it. She marries well above herself twice and both times…
Julia Schulz
Georgina Harris, a voracious reader and daughter of a prominent Law Professor at the University of Cambridge, must learn to find her own way in life, after both her parents…
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John Skinner,Skye Cleary
After discussing critical assessments of Anita Brookner, and attempts to relate her to various classics and contemporaries, Dr Skinner combines insights from recent narrative theory with close analyses of nine…
After discussing critical assessments of Brookner, and attempts to relate her to various classics and contemporaries, Dr Skinner skilfully combines insights from recent narrative theory with close analyses of nine…
L. P. Hartley
The magnum opus from the author of the much loved classic, THE GO-BETWEEN: ‘A masterpiece from the very first image’ (Guardian)
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Claire Pitt is living a life in contemporary London that is to all appearances placid, orderly and consciously lacking in surprise. Martin Gibson and his chronically ill wife Cynthia come…
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Beautifully crafted and emotionally evocative, Strangers portrays the magic and depth of real life, telling the rich story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal.
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In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in FAMILY AND FRIENDS to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish…
The Booker Prize-winning author of The Bay of Angels and Hotel du Lac delivers a masterly novel about the self-discoveries that come with maturity, and the eternal question confronted by…
The Sharpe sisters, Beatrice and Miriam, lead lives of quiet sophistication and routine. But this careful and contemplative existence is suddenly interrupted in mid-life by several complicated men.
Herz is 73 and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end? He could propose…
The Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac and Making Things Better gives readers an exquisite story about the changes in relationships over time, and how choices can both reflect…
Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the…
As children, Fibich and Hartmann were smuggled out of Nazi Germany and taken to London. They would never see their parents again. This moving portrait describes the lives of these…
Elizabeth and Betsy are old school friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead, even though their circumstances were…
The latest novel by one of the literary scene’s most profound observers of women’s lives. From the moment Jane first meets Aunt Dolly, with her perfumed mink and bored laughter…
The inner life of an outwardly commonplace woman, by the author of Hotel du Lac and The Misalliance .
At the heart of Brookner’s novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a lone woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat…
Paul Sturgis is a retired banker manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with…
With the same compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance that have won her comparisons with Jane Austen and Henry James, the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac and Brief Lives…
The latest novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac chronicles an unlikely friendship between two very different women thrust together by their husbands’ business partnership–and by a…
Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis’s cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter, he searches for an alternative…
Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence…
Dorothea May’s tranquility is shattered by Kitty Levinson’s announcement of her granddaughter’s forthcoming marriage. As the wedding approaches, the scene is set for a highly charged conflict of generations, in…
Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel Du Lac Anita Brookner creates a hauntingly beautiful story of a young woman’s growing awareness of her own mortality and the limits of love. With…
A novel centring on the relationship between the classic Brookner heroine (only child, soon bereft of parents, alone in depressing flat) who becomes a feminist academic, and her pleasure-loving French…
Blanche Vernon was not quite a widow. When her husband Bertie deserted her for a bubbly younger woman in her twenties, she was denied the solace of grief. Instead she…
By the winner of the 1984 Booker Prize and the author of Brief Lives , this story evokes loss and regret. Harriet, who felt excluded from love even as a…
When her late husband’s sister asked her to take in a reticent young drifter who is to be best man at a granddaughter’s wedding, 70-year-old recluse Dorothea May is forced…
Although Ruth Weiss at forty is the picture of a scholarly professor of English, she questions if the literature she escaped to in her youth has benefited her.
A beautifully rendered tale of loneliness, guilt, and erotic obsession. With her compassionate portrait of a man who has paid a terrible price for his folly, Booker Prize-winning author Anita…
Anna Durrant, a spinster in her early 50s who has spent her life looking after her invalid mother, is missing. Her doctor, Lawrence Halliday, has reported this to the police…
Fay Langdon, celebrated ex-singer, meets the impossible, theatrical Julia Morton and they begin a relationship of mutual distrust. It is a friendship sustained through loneliness, desperation and the morbid attraction…
