{"product_id":"fraud-9780241979419","title":"Fraud","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eA Start in Life\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, \u003ci\u003eStrangers\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2009. \u003ci\u003eHotel du Lac\u003c\/i\u003e won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA writer of bewitching readability * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes this book gripping . . . is its truthfulness. It is a sort of detective story after all, with Brookner as the sleuth . . . applying her own devastating insight. * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eWhat a humorous and humane as well as accomplished artist she is. * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eClassic Brookner * The Times *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017708011863,"sku":"9780241979419","price":12.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241979419.jpg?v=1750774403","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fraud-9780241979419","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}