In her lifetime, art historian and Booker Prize-winning novelist Anita Brookner was seen as an object of wonder and fascination – a formidable and inspiring teacher, a witty and perceptive art critic, and a writer like no other. What a perfect subject for Hermione Lee, one of our outstanding literary biographers, who has previously captured Virginia Woolf, Penelope Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Tom Stoppard. Join Hermione as she reveals this brilliant, idiosyncratic and complex woman and goes deep into Brookner’s marvellous work, in all its stylishness and daring.

In conversation with Tanjil Rashid.