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Hotel du Lac
Häftad, 1994
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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Winner of the Booker Prize'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 earlier era'Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks …
Providence
Häftad, 2016
152 kr
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Kitty Maule wants to be 'totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful.'Instead, she is clever, hesitant and too patient for her own good. For years, she has been in love with her colleague Maurice Bishop, a charming English lecturer who seems not to notice her feelings. …
Start in Life
Häftad, 2016
152 kr
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‘Excellent’ Sunday Times‘Enormously sophisticated’ Financial Times'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'Dr 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 …
Hotel Du Lac; Family and Friends
Inbunden, 2026
227 kr
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Anita Brookner is known for her poignant, witty studies of emotionally restrained women navigating loneliness, deception, and desire.‘Brookner works a spell on the reader; being under it is both an education and a delight.’—The Washington Post Book WorldHotel du Lac won the Booker Prize in 1984 and …
Strangers
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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‘No one writes with more skill and honesty about the human condition and this book is possibly her finest’ ObserverTHE MESMERISING FINAL NOVEL BY THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF HOTEL DU LAC, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY‘He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a …
Hotel du Lac
Häftad, 2023
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
139 kr
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Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of our Penguin Essential series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, …
Look At Me
Häftad, 1993
152 kr
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‘Bewitching’ The Times‘Flawless’ Observer'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown'By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, passing the time by studying her colleagues and taking notes for the novel she might write one day. Each night she returns to a vast mansion flat, which has felt …
Hotel Du Lac; Family and Friends
Inbunden, 2026
429 kr
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The first-ever hardcover omnibus of two of the best novels by the beloved, Booker Prize-winning writer—just in time for a major new biography by Hermione Lee Anita Brookner is known for her poignant, witty studies of emotionally restrained women navigating loneliness, deception, and desire. When …
Hotel du Lac
E-bok, 1999
102 kr
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Winner of the Booker Prize'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 earlier era'Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks …
Bay Of Angels
Häftad, 2016
152 kr
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‘One of her very best’ Spectator‘Subtle, original and emotionally resonant’ Sunday Telegraph'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 . . .'Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a …
Family And Friends
Häftad, 2016
179 kr
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'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, …
Latecomers
Häftad, 2010
152 kr
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‘She has never written a better novel’ Ruth Rendell‘Quietly commanding’ Hilary Mantel'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the Kindertransport: orphans of the war, and strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. Now, in adulthood, they have been unable …
Rules of Engagement
E-bok, 2004
102 kr
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The Rules of Engagement is the twenty second novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac.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 so …
Strangers
From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel Du Lac
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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Strangers is the twenty fourth novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac. 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 strangers: the cheerful …
Undue Influence
E-bok, 2000
102 kr
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'I had spent that morbid Sunday wondering if simple happiness were available to all and had come to the conclusion that it was not. One had to make a determined bid for it, and I did not quite know how this was done.'Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded …
Latecomers
From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel Du Lac
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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‘She has never written a better novel’ Ruth Rendell‘Quietly commanding’ Hilary Mantel'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the Kindertransport: orphans of the war, and strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. Now, in adulthood, they have been unable …
At the Hairdresser's
E-bok, 2011
57 kr
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Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a poignant novella from Anita Brookner.'I rather hope I shall die at the hairdresser's, for they are bound to know what to do. At least …
Leaving Home
E-bok, 2013
100 kr
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Emma Roberts leaves home for the first time in her twenties, travelling to Paris to study seventeenth-century garden design. There, she meets vivacious Françoise Desnoyers and is quickly drawn into her passionate and complicated world. But Françoise's demands - deceiving her formidable mother over …
Bay Of Angels
From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel Du Lac
E-bok, 2013
102 kr
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‘One of her very best’ Spectator‘Subtle, original and emotionally resonant’ Sunday Telegraph'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 . . .'Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a …
Next Big Thing
E-bok, 2013
102 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE‘Infinitely moving’ Literary Review‘Exceptional’ Sunday Telegraph‘This would soon be a new day, all too closely resembling the others, the normal days of his present existence, in which nothing happened nor could be expected to happen’At seventy-three, Herz is …
Falling Slowly
E-bok, 2013
102 kr
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'She hoped one day to find the image she unconsciously sought, without knowing why she sought it, something to lift the spirits, to transport her on an imaginary journey, to give a hint of the transcendence which was so blatantly lacking in her everyday life of words and paper.'Beatrice and Miriam …
Start in Life
From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel Du Lac
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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‘Excellent’ Sunday Times‘Enormously sophisticated’ Financial Times'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'Dr 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 …
Providence
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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Kitty Maule wants to be 'totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful.'Instead, she is clever, hesitant and too patient for her own good. For years, she has been in love with her colleague Maurice Bishop, a charming English lecturer who seems not to notice her feelings. …
Look At Me
From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of Hotel Du Lac
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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‘Bewitching’ The Times‘Flawless’ Observer'Once a thing is known it can never be unknown'By day Frances Hinton works in a medical library, passing the time by studying her colleagues and taking notes for the novel she might write one day. Each night she returns to a vast mansion flat, which has felt …
Family And Friends
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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Beginning with a wedding photograph, this story charts the loves and lives of a family and their friends, following each of them through their own struggles, triumphs and sorrows.
Lewis Percy
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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'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. …
Lewis Percy
E-bok, 2016
102 kr
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'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. …
Undue Influence
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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'People are mysterious. And they do reveal mysterious connections. But sometimes one is merely anxious to alter the script. It was not the first time I had been guilty of a misapprehension'At twenty-nine, Claire Pitt is single but not inexperienced. Attracted to Martin Gibson, a former academic …
Brief Lives
E-bok, 2016
102 kr
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'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 …
