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    The Uncommon Reader: Alan Bennett’s classic story about the Queen

    Alan Bennett

    The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen’s 95th birthday.

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    Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads

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    Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, published here for the first time.

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    Alan Bennett: Stories: Read by Alan Bennett

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    A unique collection of eight Alan Bennett stories, read by the author. Burning Bright and The Laying On of Hands), sex (The Shielding of Mrs Forbes) and middle-age ennui (The…

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    Alan Bennett

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    The first book written on Alan Bennett’s work for television, including his plays, series, documentaries and biographical pieces.

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    Alan Bennett: A Critical Introduction

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    By critical and popular description, Alan Bennett is one of England’s best-loved playwrights. He is perhaps best known in the UK for the BBC production of his Talking Heads TV…

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    Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett

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    Six Poets is Alan Bennett’s selection of English verse by his favourite poets - from Hardy to Larkin - accompanied by his own enlivening commentary.

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    Keeping On Keeping On

    Alan Bennett

    A concise collection of Alan Bennett’s latest diaries - and more.

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    Talking Heads

    Alan Bennett

    Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television.

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    Smut: Two Unseemly Stories

    Alan Bennett

    Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction.

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    The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady and the Van

    Alan Bennett

    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…

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    Say Something Happened

    Alan Bennett

    This is a comic, ironic look at patronizing bureaucracy. The social services department of the local council is preparing a register of the elderly and eager June Potter is despatched…

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    A Life Like Other People’s

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    Alan Bennett’s A Life Like Other People’s is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents’ marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the…

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    The Madness of George III

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    George III’s behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia.

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    Four Stories

    Alan Bennett

    Here are Alan Bennett’s four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time

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    Invest with Your Eyes Not Your Ears: Why Most People are Too Busy Listening to Others to Make Any Money

    Alan Bennett

    YOU’VE BEEN LIED TO… The media continues to perpetuate the same tired, old investing principles, and naive investors are led by the nose to one catastrophic loss after another (2008…

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    The Madness of King George

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    The screenplay for the film of the same name.

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    Writing Home

    Alan Bennett

    A collection of Alan Bennett’s prose writings. It brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a fresh portrait of one of England’s leading playwrights. It covers the production…

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    The Laying on of Hands: Stories

    Alan Bennett

    From the author of The Clothes They Stood Up In and one of Britain’s most admired authors comes a stunning collection of three tales in one volume.

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    Getting on

    Alan Bennett

    A British Labour M.P., ten years into his second marriage, feels tethered in a time of change. He is distrustful on the one hand of the mawkish mentality of the…

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    Habeas Corpus

    Alan Bennett

    After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and…

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    Kafka’s Dick

    Alan Bennett

    Kafka’s Dick.

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    Single Spies

    Alan Bennett

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    A Lady of Letters

    Alan Bennett

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    A Chip in the Sugar

    Alan Bennett

    Graham, a middle-aged bachelor, emotionally retarded and chronically dependent on his mother, finds life difficult enough at the best of times. When Mother meets an old flame and seems set…

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    The Lady in the Van

    Alan Bennett

    In 1974, Alan Bennett encountered Miss Mary Shepherd, an elderly eccentric who was living in a van in the street near his home in Camden Town. He eventually allowed her…

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    Office Suite

    Alan Bennett

    Two One Act plays: Greens Forms and A Visit From Miss Prothero.

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    Bed Among the Lentils

    Alan Bennett

    A touching and very funny playwright, Bennett manages to combine the satiric, cold-eyed sharpness of Flaubert with an embracing human compassion.

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    A Cream Cracker Under the Settee

    Alan Bennett

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    Her Big Chance

    Alan Bennett

    Meet Lesley, an actress. She has just completed a video (‘targeted chiefly on West Germany’) in which she plays Travis, a career girl who enjoys life, spends a remarkable amount…

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    Soldiering on

    Alan Bennett

    Muriel’s husband Ralph has just died, leaving her well off, until her son Giles invests the money unwisely. Eventually, neglected by Giles and her disturbed daughter Margaret, Muriel ends the…

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    The Lady in the Van

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    Presents a bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in author’s Camden garden, thereby providing him with…

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    House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

    Alan Bennett

    Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett.

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    The Lady in the Van: The Screenplay

    Alan Bennett

    Presents a bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in author’s Camden garden, thereby providing him with…

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    The Habit of Art: A Play

    Alan Bennett

    Bennett looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. He reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all…

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    Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka’s Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. The fascination of these two plays…

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    A Woman of No Importance

    Alan Bennett

    At work Peggy has carved herself a comfortable niche. Once in hospital, she loses no time in establishing herself as Queen Bee, taking on several responsibilities. Persistently cheerful, blind to…

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    Una Lectora NADA Comun

    Alan Bennett

    What can truly interest someone whose only job is to always look interested? One day Elizabeth II discovers a book in her library by a writer she remembers meeting: Ivy…

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    DOS Historias NADA Decentes

    Alan Bennett

    Mrs Donaldson is a fifty five year old recent widow, with a married, puritanical and unbearably conventional daughter who tries to make sure her mother lives constantly in reverence of…

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    Rolling Home: One Fine Day, All Day on the Sands, Our Winnie, Rolling Home

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    Funny, touching and real, this second collection of Alan Bennett’s classic work for television from the late 1970s and early 1980s is full of fine observations of life as it…

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    Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, published here for the first time.

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    Beyond the Fringe

    Alan Bennett

    Four devilishly clever comedians were responsible for this madhouse of hilarity in both London and New York: Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore. Their skits include one…

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    Habeas Corpus

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and…

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    The Habit of Art

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    Alan Bennett’s first play since the runaway international success of The History Boys.

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    Enjoy

    Alan Bennett

    Dad thinks everything will be better when the family moves. The social worker who calls to observe their lives turns out to be absent son Terry, idolized by Mam, in…

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    The Wind in the Willows

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    Believe me, my young friend, there is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In them or out of them, it doesn’t matter. Whether…

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    The Lady in the Van

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living…

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    People

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    A richly enjoyable play by one of the nation’s finest writers.

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    The Shielding of Mrs Forbes: Faber Stories

    Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett,Alan Bennett

    Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.

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