Anita Brookner published her first novel, A Start In Life in 1981. Her most notable novel, her fourth, Hotel du Lac won the Man Booker Prize in 1984. Her novel, The Next Big Thing was longlisted (alongside John Banville’s, Shroud) in 2002 for the Man Booker Prize. She published more than 25 works of fiction, notably: Strangers (2009) shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Fraud (1992) and The Rules of Engagement (2003). She was also the first female to hold a Slade Professorship of Fine Arts at Cambridge University.
Books in order of publication:
Greuze: 1725–1805: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-century Phenomenon (1972)
Jacques-Louis David (1980)
A Start in Life (1981, US title The Debut)
Providence (1982)
Look at Me (1983)
Hotel du Lac (1984) (Booker Prize winner)
Family and Friends (1985)
A Misalliance (1986)
A Friend from England (1987)
Latecomers (1988)
Lewis Percy (1989)
Brief Lives (1990)
A Closed Eye (1991)
Fraud (1992)
A Family Romance (1993, US title Dolly)
A Private View (1994)
Incidents in the Rue Laugier (1995)
Altered States (1996)
Visitors (1997)
Soundings (1997) (collection of essays)
Falling Slowly (1998)
Undue Influence (1999)
Romanticism and its Discontents (2000)
The Bay of Angels (2001)
The Next Big Thing (2002, US title Making Things Better) (longlisted for the Booker Prize)
The Rules of Engagement (2003)
Leaving Home (2005)
Strangers (2009) (shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
At The Hairdresser (2011) (novella, available only as an e-book)
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