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  • The History Boys

    The Film

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, The History Boys: The Film contains Alan Bennett's diary of the filming, the shooting script, and an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner, as well as an extensive plate section that includes a look behind the scenes and stills from the film.An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Laying On Of Hands

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Series series
    Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered for his memorial service. The conduct of the service is a great worry for the priest taking the service, but it proves ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Clothes They Stood Up In

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Series series
    The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Four Stories

    by Alan Bennett ...
    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 HandsThe painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous.The Clothes They Stood Up InThe comic tale of an elderly couple's trials ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Father! Father! Burning Bright

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Series series
    Alan Bennett's second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. 'On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, painlessly and without a struggle. Looking back, Midgley could see that even in these imagined deaths he had failed his father. It was not like him to die like that. Nor did he.' Midgley is determined ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Uncommon Reader

    A Novella

    by Alan Bennett ...
    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, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Habit of Art

    A Play

    by Alan Bennett ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Library Book

    by Alan Bennett, Ann Cleeves, Seth Godin, Susan Hill, Tom Holland, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Lucy Mangan, Val McDermid, China Miéville, Caitlin Moran, Kate Mosse, Julie Myerson, Bali Rai, Lionel Shriver, Robin Turner, Nicky Wire, Anita Anand, Bella Bathurst, Julian Barnes, Mic ...
    From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Alan Bennett Plays 2

    Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

    by Alan Bennett ...
    This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching drama. Also included is An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. The fascination of these two plays lies in the way they question our accepted notions of treachery and, in different ways, make a sympathetic case for Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The History Boys: A Play

    by Alan Bennett ...
    "A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." — The Daily TelegraphIn The History Boys, Alan Bennett evokes the special period and place that the sixth form represents in an English boy's life. In doing so, he raises—with gentle wit and pitch-perfect command of character—not only universal questions about the nature of history and how it is taught ... Read more

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  • A Life Like Other People's

    by Alan Bennett ...
    From the acclaimed British writer behind The History Boys and The Uncommon Reader , "a touching portrait of his parents . . . and a sobering tale of depression and dementia" (NPR).In this poignant memoir of his parents' marriage, Alan Bennett recalls the lost world of his childhood and the lives, loves, and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. First published... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Parachute to Berlin

    by Lowell Bennett ...
    The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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