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A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's ...Show more
Alan Bennett Children's Collection (8-CD) by Alan Bennett
$99.99 NZD
Category: CDs
This is a box set collection of stories read by Alan Bennett.
Alan Bennett: The Diaries (4-CDs in slipcase) by Alan Bennett
$56.99 NZD
Category: Fashion and Music
This is a collection of Alan Bennett's diaries.
Father! Father! Burning Bright by Alan Bennett
$14.99 NZD
Category: 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
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
Four Stories by Alan Bennett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Laying on of Hands, the painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In, the comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright, the savage satire on the family of a dying m ...Show more
History Boys by Alan Bennett
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
$16.98 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$49.99 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Laying on of Hands, The by Alan Bennett
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A satire on a society memorial service for a rather special masseur.
Shielding of Mrs Forbes (Faber Stories) by ALAN BENNETT
$10.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | 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