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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions. In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse ...Show more
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Poets like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions.Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets, accompanied by his own enlivening commentary. In this personal anthology ...Show more
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
$23.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This title includes unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. 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. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him. But ...Show more
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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 History Boys (Film edition) by Alan Bennett & Nicholas Hytner (adapted from the original stage play by Alan Bennett)
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 screenplay, staff room rivalry ...Show more
The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) by Alan Bennett
$19.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | 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 Lady in the Van (illustrated) by Alan Bennett
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Adapted for the screen by the author from his celebrated memoir, Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, is directed by long-standing collaborator Nicholas Hytner. The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'tempora ...Show more
The Library Book by Alan Bennett & others
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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