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  • The Uncommon Reader

    Alan Bennett's classic story about Queen Elizabeth II

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Alan Bennett's classic story about Queen Elizabeth IIWhat would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story.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 ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Talking Heads

    by Alan Bennett ...
    The ebook edition of Alan Bennett's celebrated monologues'Alan Bennett's Talking Heads is pretty much the best thing ever.' David SedarisAlan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with Talking Heads, a series of twelve groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television, starring Patricia Routledge, Thora Hird, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Stephanie Cole, Eileen ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The History Boys

    by Alan Bennett ...
    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 insistent questions about history and how you teach it; ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Madness of George III

    by Alan Bennett ...
    George III's behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power.Alan Bennett's play explores the court of a mad king, and the fearful treatments he was forced to undergo. It is about the nature of kingship ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Shielding of Mrs Forbes

    Faber Stories

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.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 ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Killing Time

    A Sunday Times Bestselling 'pitch-perfect' (Observer) treat for winter.

    by Alan Bennett ...
    *** Pre-order ENOUGH SAID, Alan Bennett's fourth collection of diaries and prose, now! Publishing March 2026 ***Killing Time is a wonderful surprise gift from Alan Bennett - a new story, set in a home for the elderly; a glorious, darkly comic treat.'A mini-masterpiece.' THE TIMES'Full of wit and style.' OBSERVER'A terrific cast of characters, and secrets and chaos aplenty.' iNEWS</st... ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Writing Home

    by Alan Bennett ...
    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 first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gieldgud. His television series 'Talking Heads' ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Winnie-The-Pooh: The Complete BBC Collection

    Celebrate 100 Years of Magic in the Hundred Acre Wood

    by A. A. Milne ...
    Narrated by Alan Bennett ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 42 min

    Alan Bennett reads A.A. Milne's much-loved stories about a small bear and his friends - from Winnie the Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner and A Party for Pooh.'If you were looking for the distilled essence of pure English cosy nostalgia, this audiobook may well be it... Every child should listen to it.' - The TelegraphWhat is the connection between a bear of very little brain and a honey pot? Usually ... Read more

    $16.60 CAD

  • Hymn and Cocktail Sticks

    by Alan Bennett ...
    It's a dwindling band; old-fashioned and of a certain age, you can pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book.Alan Bennett writes: In 2001 the Medici Quartet commissioned the composer George Fenton to write them a piece commemorating their thirtieth anniversary. George Fenton appeared in my play Forty Years On and has written music for many of my ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Untold Stories

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Alan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Keeping On Keeping On

    by Alan Bennett ...
    '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 should still be a teddy bear.'Alan Bennett's third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On ... Read more

    $11.79 CAD

  • Two Kafka Plays

    Kafka's Dick & The Insurance

    by Alan Bennett ...
    'You have to keep your ears open for Alan Bennett's Insurance Man. It had visual impact so powerful that you were in danger of missing some very good lines simply because nobody spoke them in close up; you had to catch them on the wing. And if there was one line that summed up both Bennett's play and Kafka's novel The Trial, which provided some of this framework, that line was "Just because you're ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD