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Books by Alan Bennett
  | | The History Boys(1st Edition) A Play (Faber Drama) by Alan Bennett Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 2006 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22464-7, ISBN: 0-571-22464-4 ""A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." --"The Daily Telegraph" An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to bro ..." |
 | | The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van (Today Show Book Club #5) by Alan Bennett Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-6965-8, ISBN: 0-8129-6965-0 "From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to find their Regent’s Park flat stripped bare--right down to the toilet-paper roll. Free of all their earthly belongings, the couple faces a perplexing question: Who are they without the thin ..." |
 | | The Complete Talking Heads(1st Edition) by Alan Bennett Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42308-7, ISBN: 0-312-42308-X "Alan Bennett's award-winning series of solo pieces is a classic of contemporary drama, universally hailed for its combination of razor-sharp wit and deeply felt humanity. In "Bed Among the Lentils," a vicar's wife discovers a semblance of happiness with an Indian shop owner. In "A Chip in the Sugar," a man's life begins to unravel when he discovers his aging mother has rekindled an old flame. In "A Lady of Letters," a busybody pays a pr ..." |
 | | Untold Stories(1st Edition) by Alan Bennett Paperback, 704 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42662-0, ISBN: 0-312-42662-3 "An instant bestseller in the U.K., "Untold Stories" brings together the finest and funniest writing by one of England's best-known literary figures. In his first major collection since "Writing Home, " Alan Bennett opens with a poignant memoir of growing up in Leeds and closes with an account of his cancer diagnosis and recovery, with everything from his much-celebrated essays to his irreverent comic pieces and reviews in between." |
 | | Writing Home(Updated) by Alan Bennett Paperback, 688 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42257-8, ISBN: 0-312-42257-1 "Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, "Writing Home" includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who lived in a van in Bennett's garden for more than twenty years. This revised and updated edition includes new material f ..." |
 | | Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2017 by Profile Faber ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-650-3, ISBN: 1-78125-650-0 "'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 should still be a teddy bear.'Alan Bennett's third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On follows in the footsteps of the phenomena ..." |
 | | Telling Tales(Updated) Ten Childhood Snapshots from the Master of the Monologue by Alan Bennett Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2000 by Bbc Books ISBN-13: 978-0-563-53773-1, ISBN: 0-563-53773-6 "A set of ten autobiographical tales from Bennett, dealing with his childhood and upbringing in Leeds during the 1940s. They focus on his relationship with his parents, and we discover how his family shaped the man who has become one of Britain's best-loved writers." |
 | | The Uncommon Reader A Novella (Paperback) by Alan Bennett Paperback, Published 2022 by Picador/Farrar Straus And Giroux 02/C /27 D ISBN-13: 978-1-250-90773-8, ISBN: 1-250-90773-X "With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life. -- Publisher description." |
 | | The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2015 by Profile Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-540-7, ISBN: 1-78125-540-7 "Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a van in Alan Bennett's driveway from the early1970s until her death in 1989. It is doubtful that Bennett could have made up the eccentric Miss Shepherd if he tried, but his poignant, funny but unsentimental account of their strange relationship is akin to his best fictional screen writing.Bennett concedes that "One seldom was able to do her ..." |
 | | The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Faber Stories (Paperback) by Alan Bennett Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35182-4, ISBN: 0-571-35182-4 "'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer." |
 | | Four Stories by Alan Bennett Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Profile Books Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-86197-819-6, ISBN: 1-86197-819-7 "Here are Alan Bennett's four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time. "Father! Father! Burning Bright" is the savage satire on a dying man's family reaction as he still asserts control over them from the hospital bed. Over 60,000 sold in small format. "The Clothes They Stood Up In" is the painful story of what happens to an elderly couple when their flat is stripped ..." |
 | | The Uncommon Reader(1st Edition) A Novella by Alan Bennett Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2008 by Picador Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42764-1, ISBN: 0-312-42764-6 "From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of readingWhen her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world chan ..." |
 | | The Laying on of Hands . .(1st Edition) by Alan Bennett Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2001 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86197-374-0, ISBN: 1-86197-374-8 "The conduct of the service is a great worry for the priest taking the service but it proves to be a test for the congregation. This is Alan Bennett at his absolute best with an exceptional satire." |
 | | Keeping On Keeping On(1st Edition) by Alan Bennett Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18105-5, ISBN: 0-374-18105-5 "A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015Alan 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 of England's best-known literary figures, Keeping On Keeping On contains Bennett's diaries from 2005 to 2015--with everything from his m ..." |
 | | People by Alan Bennett Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-29688-0, ISBN: 0-571-29688-2 "A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. It's a kind of emancipation, a setting them free to range the world ...a saleroom here, an exhibition there; art, Lady Stacpoole, is a rover. People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one's house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what ..." |
 | | Smut(1st Edition) Stories by Alan Bennett Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2012 by Picador Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-250-00316-4, ISBN: 1-250-00316-4 "One of England’s finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students, and renting out her spare room. Quiet, middle-class, and middle-aged, Mrs. Donaldson will ..." |
 | | Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode (National Gallery London) by Judy Egerton, Alan Bennett Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2011 by National Gallery London ISBN-13: 978-1-85709-510-4, ISBN: 1-85709-510-3 "Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still absorb viewers after nearly three centuries, record human vice and folly with a sharp eye and cutting intelligence. This compelling book, with an accompanying DVD narrated by Alan Bennett, exami ..." |
 | | Smut(1st Edition) Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 2011 by Profile Books(Gb) ISBN-13: 978-1-84668-525-5, ISBN: 1-84668-525-7 "A crisp clean first edition, no markings throughout:\n\nThis 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 this is Alan Bennett, so no matter the importance of keeping up appearances, w ..." |
 | | A LIFE LIKE OTHER PEOPLE\'S by Alan Bennett Paperback, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber / Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27659-2, ISBN: 0-571-27659-8 |
 | | The Habit of Art(Reprint) A Play by Alan Bennett Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2010 by Faber & Faber Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-944-9, ISBN: 0-86547-944-5 "Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s new play is as much about the theater as it is about poetry or music. It looks ..." |
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