Alan Bennett Boeken

Bij toeval ontdekt de Engelse koningin, terwijl ze achter haar honden aanrent, een bibliobus bij Windsor Castle. Ze voelt zich verplicht een boek te lenen en, hoewel ze van plan is het de volgende week ongelezen terug te brengen, begint ze te lezen. Het leesvirus grijpt haar. De koningin raakt vertrouwd met auteurs als Proust, Sylvia Plath en Alice Munro, en tijdens een staatsbanket maakt ze een faux pas door de Franse president aan te spreken over Jean Genet. In haar eigen bibliotheek vindt ze gesigneerde werken van Thackeray, Dickens, Hardy en George Eliot. Het lezen verandert haar echter in een andere persoon, een koningin die niet gewenst is. De ongewone lezer is zowel geestig als schrijnend. Alan Bennett biedt een schitterende satire op de cultuur van ontlezing en tegelijkertijd een ode aan de literatuur. Bennett, geboren in 1934, is auteur en acteur, beroemd geworden met de satirische voorstelling Beyond the Fringe in 1960. Hij speelde in verschillende televisieseries en schreef het scenario voor The Madness of King George. Zijn toneelstuk The History Boys won meerdere prestigieuze prijzen. Bennett weigerde een koninklijke onderscheiding en een adellijke titel, en accepteerde geen eredoctoraat uit protest tegen een door Murdoch gefinancierde leerstoel. Hij woont in Londen met zijn partner Rupert Thomas.

The book commemorates four decades of Alan Bennett's insightful diaries published in the London Review of Books. It offers a rich tapestry of reflections on life, culture, and society, showcasing Bennett's sharp wit and keen observations. Readers can expect a blend of personal anecdotes and broader commentary, capturing the essence of contemporary British life through Bennett's unique lens. This collection serves as both a tribute to his enduring legacy and a deep dive into the thoughts of one of Britain's most beloved writers.

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six monologues. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, these modern-day classics invite us to explore 12 very different but very real characters and their lives.

This audio cassette comprises both volumes of Alan Bennett's acclaimed monologues in a slipcase.

Available for pre-order now The gorgeous, pocket-sized edition of the two brand-new Talking Heads As seen on BBC1 and iPlayer 'Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I've added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise.

The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.

'Writing Home' is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays. From his now-legendary address at Russell Harty's memorial service to recollections of growing up in Leeds, 'Writing Home' gives us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights.

'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 follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, each published ten years apart. This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (The Habit of Art, People, Hymn and Cocktail Sticks), a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. There's a provocative sermon on private education given before the University at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and 'Baffled at a Bookcase' offers a passionate defence of the public library. This is an engaging, humane, sharp, funny and unforgettable record of life according to the inimitable Alan Bennett.

Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People is the core of his collection, Untold Stories. It is a poignant memoir of his parents marriage and his own childhood, recalling Christmases with Grandma Peel and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. With the sudden descent of his mother into depression and, later, dementia, a long-held family secret is uncovered in this heart-rending and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the best-loved English writers.