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A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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 Family Romance - out of print by Anita Brookner
22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 aunt who's into men and bridge parties.
Brief Lives by Anita Brookner
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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)
26.00 NZD
Category: General 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
27.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Look at Me by Anita Brookner
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown.' By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, by night she haunts the room of a West London mansion flat. Everything changes, however, when she is adopted by charming Nick and his dazzling wife Alix. They draw her into their tight circle of friends. S ...Show more
Romanticism and Its Discontents by Anita Brookner
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
By examining the lives and works of eight painters and writers (Delacroix, Ingres and Gros, the Brothers Goncourt, Zola, Alfred de Musset and Husymans), this work traces how French Romanticism followed the political turmoil of the late 18th century.
The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner
27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zo Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zo is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon's ...Show more