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House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography
Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett. 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they're not the thin end of a precautionary wedge ...Show more
Hymn: and Cocktail Sticks: Two Recollections by Alan Bennett
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
It's a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book. Alan Bennett writes: In 2001 the Medici Quartet commissioned the composer George Fenton to write them a piece commemorating their thirtieth ann ...Show more
Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett
Category: Drama
"Alan Bennett is a courageous and gifted writer: no one since Shaw has had the guts to include a finale set in Heaven which resembles some awful publishing party-cum-tea-dance at the Savoy, or mix up so many fundamentally serious ideas about the importance - or lack of it - of art and artists in our gos ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography
A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one ...Show more
Keeping on Keeping On by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography and Memoir
Alan Bennett's third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, each published ten years apart. This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres ...Show more
LRB Diary for 2023 by Alan Bennett
Category: Diaries
This year's diary celebrates 40 years of Alan Bennett's own diary in the London Review of Books.
Laying on of Hands, The by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
A satire on a society memorial service for a rather special masseur.
Max Goes to Mars - A Science Adventure with Max the Dog by Jeffrey Bennett; Alan Okamoto (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: Science Adventures with Max the Dog Ser.
This book is specially designed in Amazon's fixed-layout KF8 format with region magnification. Double-tap on an area of text to zoom and read. This is the updated edition of the first children's book ever launched into space and read aloud by astronauts from the International Space Station Come with M ...Show more
People by Alan Bennett
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world ...a sale room here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover. People spoil things; there are so many of th ...Show more
Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Faber Stories) by ALAN BENNETT
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer. "I didn't know you were interested in football," said Betty.' No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the ...Show more
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
Category: Poetry
Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions. In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse ...Show more