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Alan Bennett: Four Stories by Alan Bennett
$99.00 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction
Alan Bennett, master storyteller, reads four of his highly-acclaimed stories. The Lady in the Van - An eccentric old lady and her van are told to move on by the council, but a kind homeowner invites her to live in his garden. In this bizarre tale, the homeowner is Alan Bennett and the woman stays for fi ...Show more
Father! Father! Burning Bright by Alan Bennett
$19.95 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: BBC Radio Collection
Father! Father! Burning Bright by Alan Bennett
$11.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Alan Bennett's second story, set in the 1970s in Yorkshire. Midgeley is determined to deny his father a last occasion to be disappointed in him. He will do the right thing and sit by his intensive care bedside till he dies. But even unconscious his father manages to make Midgeley's life a misery. A port ...Show more
Forty Years on by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama
"Alan Bennett's most gloriously funny play ...a brilliant, youthful perception of a nation in decline, as seen through the eyes of a home-grown school play ...a classic". (Daily Mail).
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
$23.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
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
Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama
"After two elegiac comedies about the decline of old England, Mr Bennett has now written a gorgeously vulgar but densely plotted farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body ...a combination of hurtling action with verbal brilliance". (Guardian).
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
$14.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
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
Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama
"Alan Bennett is a courageous and gifted writer: no one since Shaw has had the guts to include a finale set in Heaven which resembles some awful publishing party-cum-tea-dance at the Savoy, or mix up so many fundamentally serious ideas about the importance - or lack of it - of art and artists in our gos ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | 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
Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Faber Stories) by ALAN BENNETT
$7.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'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. "I didn't know you were interested in football," said Betty.' No one must ever find out that Graham is 'not the ...Show more