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Four Stories by Alan Bennett
$24.99 NZD
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
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
$16.99 NZD
Category: Humour
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
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literature | 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
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
$22.99 NZD
Category: 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
The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) by Alan Bennett
$18.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | 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 Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the author of The History Boys and The Clothes They Stood Up In A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads ...Show more
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