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Anita Brookner

September 2023

  • Julian Barnes.

    ‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis

    The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

July 2019

  • Walk With Me 09 011 Thich Nhat Hanh Plum Village Monastery France

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: what books can help me to love my enemies?

    Buddhist wisdom and Anita Brookner help make sense of those annoying others

November 2018

  • Marcel Proust in the garden of Reynaldo Hahn.

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which books best examine the nature of loneliness?

    From Proust’s explorations of consciousness to Olivia Laing’s meditations on isolation, solitude is literature’s friend

June 2017

  • Emma Ashton, Adele Salem and Katherine Dow in the York Theatre Royal’s 2000 adaptation of Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about lies

    You’ll need to watch who you believe in these books by writers from James Baldwin to Anita Brookner and Thomas Hardy to Toni Morrison

December 2016

  • Bainbridge At Home<br>English novelist Beryl Bainbridge (1934 - 2010) at home, 8th May 1967. (Photo by Richard Chowen/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    2016 – a year of celebrating women writers

    In a year that has seen landmark biographies, literary reinventions and the loss of some leading lights, here are six female authors whose work lives on

August 2016

  • Illustration Lucy Macleod

    Sister act: female friendship in fiction from Woolf to Ferrante and Zadie Smith

    Forget wives and mothers, the heroines of new books by Deborah Levy, Emma Cline and Zadie Smith are defined by the other women in their lives

June 2016

  • anita brookner portrait by jane bown

    Rachel Cooke's shelf life
    Anita Brookner’s rare and welcome take on old age

    Anita Brookner’s portrayal of a lonely 73-year-old in The Next Big Thing is unusual in being serious and largely sympathetic

March 2016

  • Anita Brookner

    Rachel Cooke's shelf life
    Anita Brookner’s wry, elegant world of disappointed women

  • Anita Brookner, London, Britain - 10 Feb 1990<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jonathan Player/REX/Shutterstock (671959a) Novelist Anita Brookner, born in 1928 has published 24 novels, including 'Hotel du Lac' which won her the Booker Prize in 1984. She also has a PhD in Art History and was the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge University in 1967. She was made a CBE in 1990. Anita Brookner, London, Britain - 10 Feb 1990

    The five best Anita Brookner novels

  • Anita Brookner at home in 2001

    Julian Barnes remembers his friend Anita Brookner: ‘There was no one remotely like her’

  • Christina Patterson

    Anita Brookner’s subversive message – the courage of the single life deserves respect

    Christina Patterson

  • Tim Hilton on Anita Brookner: She often spent the cocktail hour in Blunt’s flat

  • Anita Brookner obituary

  • Anita Brookner, art historian and Booker prize winner, dies age 87

June 2015

  • Still from the film The Comfort of Strangers with Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best fictional holidays

    From Salter’s Tuscany to the east coast of England…

October 2013

  • 2004, BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REA

    On the shelf: Bridget Jones and other literary singletons

    Bridget Jones is back – as a widow. Why in fiction is it still a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman must be in want of a husband, asks Rachel Cooke

September 2013

  • Iain Dale

    Books blog
    Ten of the worst publishing moments

    John Dugdale: A televised scuffle on the Brighton seafront made a laughing-stock of editor Iain Dale this week - but that's nothing compared with the humiliation of the publishers who turned down Harry Potter

October 2011

  • Seamus Heaney by Zsuzsi Roboz

    Face to face with writers – in pictures

    When Zsuzsi Roboz began a series of writers' portraits, she found herself embarking on a series of duels, with observers finding themselves observed. She tells how authors such as Anita Brookner, Will Self and Seamus Heaney returned her scrutiny

  • Anita Brookner, novelist

    A look back
    From the archive, 21 October 1984: Why should the Booker play safe?

    Originally published in the Observer on 21 October 1984: Hermione Lee congratulates Anita Brookner on winning the prize, but laments the judges' lack of adventure

  • Anita Brookner, novelist

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 19 October 1984: Booker Prize awarded to a 6-1 outsider

    Originally published in the Guardian on 19 October 1984: Anita Brookner, a Cambridge University art historian, was the surprise winner of the £15,000 Booker Prize for fiction last night

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