Alan Bennett

• May-1992
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• Sep-1995
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Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van,...

• Feb-2001
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The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just beca...

• Jun-2002
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Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits a...

• Nov-2002
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From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to...

• Jun-2003
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Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces is a classic of contemporary drama, universally hailed for its combination of razor-sharp wit and deeply felt humanity. In Bed Among the Lentils, a vicar's wife discovers a semblance of happiness wit...

• Sep-2007
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A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who freq...

• Jan-2012
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One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved ...

• May-2014
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Alan Bennett's second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. 'On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, painlessly and without a struggle. Looking ...

• Dec-2015
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Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics.The Laying on of HandsThe pa...

• Dec-2015
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"Now a major motion picture starring Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett's famous and heartwarming story ""The Lady in the Van,"" and more of Bennett's classic short-form work Alan Bennett has long been one of the world's most ...

• Dec-2016
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This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. The fascination of these two plays...

• Jun-2018
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of one of the earliest plays by Alan Bennett

The 1970s are a time of change, but Labour MP George Oliver feels stuck in one place: distrusting the ‘mawkish mentality’ of the young and fearing the enc...

• Mar-2019
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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with...

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The Madness of George III is one of Alan Bennett's most popular plays, first performed in 1991, and adapted for BBC Radio. A fictionalized biographical study of the latter half of the reign of George III of Great Britain, his battle with mental illne...

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Talking Heads is a complete collection of Bennett's six masterful monologues, performed by the authour and five of Britain's leading actresses. In these compelling pieces, Bennett displays the wry observation, knowing irony and tender misunderstement...