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The History Boys by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama
"Brilliantly funny, with lines that we will, I hope, be quoting for years to come and several show-stopping vignettes. Bennett is still naughty, impish, endlessly ironic. But by the end tears are as near as laughter. The History Boys is moving, disquieting: one follows it with a heart brimful...This is ...Show more
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama
"We have, in the nick of time, a Play of the Year: Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van is a wonderfully bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Bennett's Camden garden, thereby providing him with a roughly equal amount of j ...Show more
The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama
"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. Alan Bennett's wonderful play has finally arrived in the West End ...and there are many moments that cut at the heart like a knife. We think of Bennett as a great comic writer, and so he is, but he can also be the most moving of dramatists". (Daily Telegraph ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$24.95 AUD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
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 widely (J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her worl ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
$17.99 AUD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen's 95th birthday.
The Wind in the Willows (Audio Books) by Kenneth Grahame (BBC 4 full-cast dramatisation with Alan Bennett)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Children's
Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett's acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this special dramatisation for BBC Radio 4, including Richard Briers as Rat, Adrian Scarborough as Mole and Terence Rigby as Albert with Alan Bennett as the narrator. This is a wonderful, highly-acclaimed drama ...Show more
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Humour
Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the ...Show more
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very f ...Show more