Award-winner author Anita Brookner has died at the age of 87
Brookner, who wrote 25 books, won the Booker Prize in 1984 for her novel Hotel du Lac.
She was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish Jewish parents, who opened their home to refugees fleeing the Nazis before World War Two.
She started writing fiction in her 50s, having carved a successful career as art historian.
