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The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. Alan Bennett's wonderful play has finally arrived in the West End ...and there are many moments that cut at the heart like a knife. We think of Bennett as a great comic writer, and so he is, but he can also be the most moving of dramatists". (Daily Telegraph ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Category: Audio Books
It was the corgis' fault. When they strayed through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the Queen discovered the City of Westminster travelling library. The Queen has never had much time for reading - pleasure's always come second place to duty - 'though now that one is here I suppose one ought to borrow ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning "The History Boys," a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
From the author of The History Boys and The Clothes They Stood Up In 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 ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen's 95th birthday.
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her worl ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows (Audio Books) by Kenneth Grahame (BBC 4 full-cast dramatisation with Alan Bennett)
Category: Audio Books
Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this special dramatisation for BBC Radio 4, including Richard Briers as Rat, Adrian Scarborough as Mole and Terence Rigby as Albert with Alan Bennett as the narrator. This is a wonderful, highly-acclaimed drama ...Show more
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett, Alan Bennett
Category: Short Stories
Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, published here for the first time.
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
Category: Fiction
Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the ...Show more
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
Category: Biography Memoir
The wonderful sequel to Bennett's diaries Writing HomeUntold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection since his number one bestseller, Writing Home, is a compendium of some of his very finest and funniest writing from the last nine years. The book includes significant unpublished work, including t ...Show more