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Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
23.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory either. Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) i ...Show more
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
30.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
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 con ...Show more
The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) by Alan Bennett
19.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up stayin ...Show more
The Library Book by Alan Bennett & others
30.00 NZD
Category: Literature
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Ten 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 2020. Lionel Shriver thin ...Show more
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen's 95th birthday.
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett, Alan Bennett
19.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, published here for the first time.
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
23.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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