From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning "The History Boys," comes a mischievous novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading.
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 and the anarchy of adolescence provoke ...
From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to find their Regent's Park flat stripped bare--right down to the toilet-paper roll. Free of all ...
This collection of clever writings from the ever-witty screenwriter of "The Madness of King George" includes work from his entire career: memoirs, diaries from the 1980s, book reviews, musings on the world, and thoughts on the theater. With 32 pages of b&w photos.
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, "Talking Heads" is widely regarded as a modern classic. This new edition, which contains the complete collection of "Talking ...
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 ...
When an elderly couple are burgled, the only possessions they are left with are the clothes they stand u p in. In Alan Bennett''s immensely funny story the plot ends with a satisfying twist that is both surprising and profound ly moral. '
In this cross-cultural history of the popular stimulant, a medical expert teams up with an anthropologist to discuss the ways in which various societies have used caffeine for medical, religious, and artistic purposes. It chronicles the evolution of caffeinated foods and beverages, starting in 220 B.C. when the Chinese and other Asian populations ...
Alan Bennett's three humorous tales include the novella-length title story, in which a group of his clients attend a memorial service for a masseur; "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet," about the odd relationship between Miss Fozzard and her foot doctor; and "Father! Father! Burning Bright," in which a man who has risen up from the lower classes is ...
"Untold Stories" brings together some of the finest and funniest writing by one of England's best-known literary figures. Bennett's first major collection since "Writing Home" contains previously unpublished work, along with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996 to 2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews, and comic pieces.
A volume which contains all the 12 monologues from both the television series of "Talking Heads", of 1987 and 1998, respectively, together with "A Woman of No Importance". The pieces are characterized by Alan Bennett's understatement, observation and knowing irony.
"To be brought up in Leeds in the forties was to learn early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere." In this delightful collection of reminiscences, Alan Bennett recalls his early years in a sequence of tales that are funny, touching and written in his unique style. Born in Leeds in 1934, he realises ...
The authors, who also wrote THE WORLD OF CAFFEINE, confront the many myths about caffeine while also illuminating its numerous benefits, including its ability to improve short-term memory, verbal skills, and even male fertility.
The painting and writing of Denton Welch, much admired by such disparate people as Edith Sitwell and William Burroughs, is at once seemingly artless and immensely considered. There is really no one quite like him. Frail and desperately sensitive, Welch died young at the age of 33, leaving behind an intense corpus of work that had earned him ...
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 portrait of stifling family relationships
This intensely moving and thought-provoking play won many awards in the U.S. and Britain, and was recently made into a motion picture. At a boys' school in Sheffield, England, eight young men are being coached to nab acceptance at Oxford or Cambridge. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright teenagers is getting ...
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 government wavers and the Prince Regent takes over. This play explores the court of the mad king. Alan Bennett is the author of "Forty Years On", "Single Spies", "Prick Up Your Ears", "Talking ...
'As memorial services go these days it had been billed as 'a celebration', the marrying of the valedictory with the festive convenient on several grounds. For a start it made grief less obligatory, which was useful as the person to be celebrated had been dead some time and tears would have been something of an acting job. To call it a celebration ...
Featuring a new Introduction by the author, this unique paperback contains Bennett's autobiographical sketch, "The Lady in the Van, " and his acclaimed story, "The Clothes They Stood Up In, " which "The Washington Post" called "an absolutely delicious, near perfect little book."
Here are Alan Bennett's four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time. "Father! Father! Burning Bright" is the savage satire on a dying man's family reaction as he still asserts control over them from the hospital bed. Over 60,000 sold in small format. "The Clothes They Stood Up ...
This book is suitable for ages 8 to 10 years. Max the Dog and his human friend Tori take the first trip to the Moon since the Apollo era and their trip proves so inspiring to people back on Earth that all the nations of the world come together to build a great Moon colony. From the colony, the views of Earth make everyone realize how small and ...
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 river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle.
The mysterious events of April 21, 1918, the day the legendary Red Baron met his end, have kept the world captivated for decades. There have been many theories, articles and books concerning exactly what took place but all previous accounts have been over-shadowed by this ground-breaking book. Here is the definitive answer to one of history's most ...
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