Thursday, 19 March 2026

Cover Story #2

I haven't yet been able to find the covers, but these are apparently the fresh spines of some Brookner novels to be republished in June:

An intriguing selection, focusing on the 1980s (A Start in Life, Look at Me*, Latecomers) and the 2000s (The Bay of Angels, The Next Big Thing). I am pleased to see The Next Big Thing, a late masterpiece and as raw and edgy as anything she ever wrote. I should perhaps reconsider The Bay of Angels.

But what of the great, settled, magisterial novels of the 90s - A Family Romance, A Private View, Visitors?

*Disappointing to see the continuing capitalisation of the preposition, inaugurated in the cover refresh of ten years ago.

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