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Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
$17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
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
Telling Tales by Alan Bennett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere." In this delightful collection of reminiscences, Alan Bennett recalls his early years in a sequence of tales that are funny, touching and written in his unique ...Show more
The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) by Alan Bennett
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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: Display & Gift
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
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
The Library Book by Alan Bennett & others
$24.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thin ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$17.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen's 95th birthday.
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
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