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A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Without warning, it seemed, she had become a married woman.' Naive and undemanding, Harriet Lytton expects very little of life and that is what she recieves. Married to a respectable man old enough to be her father, Harriet's only taste of passion comes when she meets Jack Peckham, the unruly, attracti ...Show more
A Start in Life by Anita Brookner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting h ...Show more
Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' ZoU is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys ...Show more
Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'I never liked her, nor did she like me; strange, then, how we managed to keep up a sort of friendship for so long.' Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties Fay meets the glamorous, self-obsessed Julia and is destined t ...Show more
Falling Slowly by Anita Brookner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Sisters Beatrice and Miriam have each other, but they were never close. Beatrice is a pianist, a romantic, while Miriam is disillusioned after a failed marriage. Living together yet failing to confide in one another, each is haunted by the mistakes they have made and the opportunities squandered. Both ...Show more
Family and Friends by Anita Brookner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Sofka gazes ahead, with her family's future before her ...' Sofka Dorn, widowed matriarch of a prosperous German Jewish family living in England, rules her four children with an exacting hand. Frederick, the eldest son, is a disgracefully charming 'ladies' man, and like his flirtatious sister, Betty, i ...Show more
Family and Friends by Brookner Anita
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 family in London, centering upon the generation that came to maturity between the two World Wars. "Brookner works a spell on the rea ...Show more
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own ...Show more
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Anita Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel - now a Penguin Essential The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earl ...Show more
Latecomers (Penguin Decades) by Anita Brookner; Helen Dunmore (Foreword by)
$8.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
Hartmann was a German, Fibich an orphan of World War II.... A novel about human relationships, focusing, unusually for Brookner, on two male characters. Hartmann and Fibich met at school and 40 years later they can no more think of living apart than of divorcing their wives. This book deals with their ...Show more
Leaving Home by Anita Brookner
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a guest. She is not too dazzled to ignore the tensions that ...Show more
Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.' Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estrang ...Show more