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Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
22.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Telling Tales by Alan Bennett
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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 History Boys (Film edition) by Alan Bennett & Nicholas Hytner (adapted from the original stage play by Alan Bennett)
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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 screenplay, staff room rivalry ...Show more
The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) by Alan Bennett
18.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
22.95 NZD
27.99 (18% off)
Category: Reference
Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir,
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
16.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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
Three Stories by Alan Bennett
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The first ever collection in paperback of Alan Bennett's fiction - published in the year when he has been given the British Book Lifetime Achievement Award Here are Alan Bennett's hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling novellas, brought together in one book for the first time: Fat ...Show more
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the ...Show more
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
59.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The wonderful sequel to Bennett's diaries Writing HomeUntold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection since his number one bestseller, Writing Home, is a compendium of some of his very finest and funniest writing from the last nine years. The book includes significant unpublished work, including t ...Show more
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
32.99 NZD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This book brings together Alan Bennett's diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and A Pr ...Show more