Books by anita brookner

The story of a girl in disgrace working out her probation on the shores of Lake Geneva.

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A novel in which a wedding photograph of an apparently happy family offers the subtlest of hints of the years to come. From the author of ALTERED ... More

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This story is concerned with the lasting bond of friendship between two men and how their lives unfold, from the time when they are at boarding ... More

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Feeling solitary and shocked by the late remarriage of his mother, Alan Sherwood submits to a highly unsatisfactory engagement to fragile, needy ... More

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When her widowed mother marries a wealthy older man and moves to Nice, Zoe's life changes forever. Alone in London, she discovers a new-found freedom ... More

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Anita Brookner, the master of character study, has captured the essence of the protagonist in this poignant tale of an independent, emotionally aloof ... More

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Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more ... More

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A young woman gives up a promising singing career for the sake of a brilliant match. When her husband dies tragically young, she is forced into new ... More

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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 ... More

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When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her ... More

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Beatrice and Miriam are sisters, sharing little except an unhappy childhood. Beatrice is a pianist, a romantic, while Miriam is disillusioned after a ... More

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By the author of "Hotel Du Lac" which won the 1984 Booker Prize, "Family and Friends" and "Latecomers", this novel concentrates on the life of one ... More

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Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with unease, an unease compounded by the early death of his friend ... More

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The author's fourth novel is a portrait of an intelligent woman grappling with the questions of nationality, religion, identity, her place in the ... More

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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 ... More

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'I have come to believe that there can be no adequate preparation for the sadness that comes at the end, the sheer regret that one's life is finished ... More

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A tale of a woman scholar and the changes--and sameness--she encounters living in London and Paris.

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The Booker Prize-winning author of "The Bay of Angels" and "Hotel du Lac" now pens a masterly new novel about the self-discoveries that come with ... More

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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 ... More

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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 ... More

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Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up unguided, shrouded in an innocence that her friendship with Tessa, and later her marriage to ... More

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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 ... More

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Dorothea May's tranquility is shattered by Kitty Levinson's announcement of her granddaughter's forthcoming marriage. As the wedding approaches, the ... More

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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 ... More

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Every summer Maud Gonthier, from Dijon, the only daughter of a widowed mother, is invited to La Gaillarderie, her aunt's large country house. This ... More

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