At work Peggy has carved herself a comfortable niche. Once in hospital, she loses no time in establishing herself as Queen Bee, taking on several responsibilities. Persistently...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Alan Bennett.
Graham, a middle-aged bachelor, emotionally retarded and chronically dependent on his mother, finds life difficult enough at the best of times. When Mother meets an old flame an...
Dad thinks everything will be better when the family moves. The social worker who calls to observe their lives turns out to be absent son Terry, idolized by Mam, in drag. Secret...
In 1974, Alan Bennett encountered Miss Mary Shepherd, an elderly eccentric who was living in a van in the street near his home in Camden Town. He eventually allowed her to park...
Green FormsDoris and Doreen are comfortably installed in an obscure department of a large organization. On a normal day they keep busy by flirting with nice Mr Tidmarsh in Appoi...
The social services department of the council is preparing a register of the elderly in the area and eager but green June Potter (recently transfered from transport) is despatch...
Susan is a vicar's wife suffocated by the expectations forced on her by her position and her husband's over-zealous parishioners. She is also an alcoholic who travels into Leeds...
A Cream Cracker Under the Settee
Alan Bennett · ISBN 9780573132254
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti nidottu
Meet Lesley, an actress. She has just completed a video ('targeted chiefly on West Germany') in which she plays Travis, a career girl who enjoys life, spends a remarkable amount...
Muriel's husband Ralph has just died, leaving her rather well off - until that is, her son Giles gets his hands on the money. Unused to thinking about financial matters, Muriel...
The Clothes They Stood Up in and the Lady and the Van
Alan Bennett · ISBN 9780812969658
Julkaistu 2002 Kieli englanti nidottu
Returning home from the opera, Mr. and Mrs. Ransome discover that their Notting Hill flat has been stripped bare of everything and are forced to adjust to the possibilities of l...
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this ima...
One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surpr...
The Lady in the Van and Other Stories
Alan Bennett · ISBN 9781250089724
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
Now a major motion picture starring Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett's famous and heartwarming story "The Lady in the Van," and more of Bennett's classic short-form work Alan Bennett...
The Lady in the Van: The Screenplay
Alan Bennett · ISBN 9781250089748
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
The screenplay edition of the major motion picture adaptation, starring Maggie Smith, of Alan Bennett's acclaimed story "The Lady in the Van." This edition features an introduct...
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
Alan Bennett · ISBN 9781250907738
Julkaistu 2022 Kieli englanti nidottu
From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a...
Invest with Your Eyes Not Your Ears
Alan Bennett · ISBN 9781425188238
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti pokkari
In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And B...
A new collection of Alan Bennett's diaries and more