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A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
$26.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
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
A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people's foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics. The Laying on of Hands The painfully observant account of a memorial service fo ...Show more
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
History Boys by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Hymn: and Cocktail Sticks: Two Recollections by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
It's a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book. Alan Bennett writes: In 2001 the Medici Quartet commissioned the composer George Fenton to write them a piece commemorating their thirtieth ann ...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
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | 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
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$22.99 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