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A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
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 lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's ...Show more
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Laying on of Hands, the painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In, the comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright, the savage satire on the family of a dying m ...Show more
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
$14.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books
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
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
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
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poets 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.Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets, accompanied by his own enlivening commentary. In this personal anthology ...Show more
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Audio/Book
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 a hundred poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their vers ...Show more
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This title includes unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes - Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him. But ...Show more
The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) by Alan Bennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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 in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up stayin ...Show more
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
$14.99 AUD
Category: Gift Books
Alan Bennet's most famous work of non-fiction. It is the history of Miss Shepherd, who in the 1970s lived in a Robin Reliant car opposite Bennett's house in Camden. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move to his driveway. Thus began an extraordinary 15 year friendship between a write ...Show more
The Lady in the Van (illustrated) by Alan Bennett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Adapted for the screen by the author from his celebrated memoir, Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, is directed by long-standing collaborator Nicholas Hytner. The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'tempora ...Show more