Anita Brookner

Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel, is 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, and the respected patrons of an earlier era. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac...

The stunning final novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, now with a new introduction by Tessa Hadley. 'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.' Paul Sturgis - unmarried, retired, and coming towards the...