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• Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
  "There aren't many first-time novelists I'd dare to compare to Alan Bennett, but Louise Dean has his wicked yet empathetic eye, his ear for pathos, his .... I'd disagree with Julie Myerson that Louise Dean can be compared to Alan Bennett, although she has the knack of the clever phrase. Take, for instance, the o
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• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  ...y classroom apply to the individual? What starts off in the manner of Alan Bennett's 'History Boys' soon turns into a darker mystery as Tony is forced to face
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• What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam
  ...ntinuing meditation on his past and the people and books that surround it. Bennett was writing this as he was under the 50/50 prognosis of survival from cance
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• Eating For England by Nigel Slater
  Like Alan Bennett he's a sharp observer of people but even sharper at capturing his own react ...other national treasure has done the same thing but without the benefit of Bennett's superior writing abilities.
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• The Mistress's Daughter by A M Homes
  Alan Bennett's [[Untold Stories]] is another wonderful memoir by an author who values pr
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• Intermission by Owen Martell
  There is a line in Alan Bennett's play ''The History Boys'' that I love. It talks about ''subjunctive hist
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• The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett
  |author=Robert Jackson Bennett [[Scar Night by Alan Campbell]]<br>
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• Lives in Writing by David Lodge
  ...frain from being too similar – there is a lot of ground between, say, Alan Bennett's annual diaries and those of Simon Gray. They on the whole originally app
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• Dear Reader by Paul Fournel and David Bellos (translator)
  ...k appeals then we think you might also enjoy [[The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett]].
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• Semi-Detached by Griff Rhys Jones
  ...or theatrical memoirs of a slightly earlier generation, I'd recommend Alan Bennett's [[Untold Stories]], or [[The Year of the Jouncer]] by Simon Gray.
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• Still Reigning by The Queen
  ...ionate look at Her Majesty, we can recommend [[The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett]]. You might enjoy [[Wildlife by Joe Stretch]], but we are still to be con
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• The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain
  ...ively about an elected leader, the wonderful [[The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett]] is very much in a similar vein.
  3 KB (506 words) - 13:41, 18 March 2018
• The Old Romantic by Louise Dean
  ...d the sort of observation of people which you normally associate with Alan Bennett. Dean picks out those small pointers which tell us all about Ken, such as
  3 KB (544 words) - 15:02, 30 March 2018
• Small Memories by Jose Saramago
  ...oetzee]]. You'll probably also enjoy [[A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett]].
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• Alys, Always by Harriet Lane
  ...and the run of the mill life of her elder sister. There are shades of Alan Bennett, that master of observation of English middle-class mediocrity, in some of
  3 KB (587 words) - 15:36, 1 September 2020
• Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
  ...ooks then we're sure that you'll also like [[The Uncommon Reader]] by Alan Bennett.
  3 KB (571 words) - 10:59, 24 March 2018
• Life, Love and the Archers by Wendy Cope
  ...book appeals the we think that you'll also enjoy [[Untold Stories by Alan Bennett]].
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• The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry
  ...nly [[The Library Book by Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others]] to consider. For whiling your hours away warmly thinking of b
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• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
  ...is book appeals then we think you might also enjoy [[Three Stories by Alan Bennett]].
  4 KB (623 words) - 11:11, 16 March 2018
• Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories by Alexander McCall Smith
  ...u might like to try [[Fup by Jim Dodge]] and [[The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett]].
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