A somewhat arcane post this, but I guess arcane is what I'm all about here. A look at the way Brookner or rather the publishers of her British first editions styled and designed her chapter headings.
In the 1980s there was a wide variation: digits; numbers in words; Roman numerals. Also varied were the accompanying devices, or lack of. The 1990s were the more consistent, also more expansive years, and this accords with the style and tone of the novels of that time. The
Incidents in the Rue Laugier design pictured below is found throughout the decade (in
A Closed Eye, A Family Romance, A Private View, Incidents in the Rue Laugier, Altered States and
Falling Slowly), and seems to have been a favourite. It's certainly mine. And finally the 2000s: the years of minimalism: again, matched in the tone of those novels.
From the 1980s:
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| A Start in Life |
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| Providence |
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| Look at Me |
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| Hotel du Lac |
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| Family and Friends |
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| A Friend from England |
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| Lewis Percy |
From the 1990s:
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| Brief Lives |
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| Incidents in the Rue Laugier |
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| Visitors |
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| Undue Influence |
And from the 2000s:
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| Strangers |
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