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...
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George III's behaviour was often odd, but now he is deranged, rumoured to have even addressed a tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the...
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The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the...
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A collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance.
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This is a companion volume to Alan Bennett's two collections of television plays published as "Me, I'm afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "Rolling Home".
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Published to coincide with a retrospective of Alan Bennett's television work at the National Film Theatre, this collection is full of the observations...
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This collection contains a full introduction from the author, with anecdotes and recollections of fliming at the time and looking back now. It includes:...
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Includes four stories: "Father! Father! Burning Bright" is a satire on a dying man's family reaction; "The Clothes They Stood Up In" is a painful story...
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Features the stories - "The Lady in the Van", "The Clothes They Stood Up In", "The Laying On of Hands", and "Father! Father! Burning Bright".
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The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the...
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Looks at the extracts from the author's bestselling diaries, which offer an insight into his life - the work on location, life in Camden and fond, poignant...
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Part of "Untold Stories", a collection of prose by Allen Bennett, this work contains two reminiscences from Bennett's life and an essay on the class system....
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The personal diaries of Alan Bennett, writer, actor and skilled observer of
human foibles. These cassettes record his scrutiny of day-to-day events in...
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The bizarre tale of an eccentric old woman who lived in glorious self-sufficiency in a van in Bennett's garden for 15 years; this reissue adds details...
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