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A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
33.00 NZD
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
Alan Bennett: The Diaries (4-CDs in slipcase) by Alan Bennett
55.00 NZD
56.99 (3% off)
Category: Audio
This is a collection of Alan Bennett's diaries.
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
17.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
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
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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
55.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'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
LRB Diary for 2023 by Alan Bennett
28.00 NZD
Category: Calendars and diaries
This year's diary celebrates 40 years of Alan Bennett's own diary in the London Review of Books.
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
37.00 NZD
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
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
23.00 NZD
Category: General 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. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory either. Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) i ...Show more
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
27.99 NZD
Category: General fiction
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, "Talking Heads" is widely regarded as a modern classic. This new edition, which con ...Show more