Untold Stories
Author(s): Alan Bennett
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 The book includes significant unpublished work, including the title piece, a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces. First published October 2005.
Product Information
Untold Stories is the wonderful sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home.
Winner of PEN/Ackerley Prize 2006.
Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic. The History Boys won numerous awards both at the National Theatre, London, and on Broadway. Also at the NT: The Habit of Art, People and Cocktail Sticks. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Madness of King George, and appeared with Dame Maggie Smith in a radio adaptation of his The Lady in the Van. His collection of prose Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography. Fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories. His most recent publication is Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin.
General Fields
- :
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 1.155
- : 01 September 2005
- : 241mm X 161mm X 55mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Alan Bennett
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : English
- : 822.914
- : 658
- : Illustrations, ports.
