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  • Category:Alan Bennett
    [[Category:Authors|Bennett, Alan]]
    7 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 17:02, 24 October 2009
  • Three Stories
    #REDIRECT [[Three Stories by Alan Bennett]]
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  • Untold Stories
    #REDIRECT [[Untold Stories by Alan Bennett]]
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  • The Uncommon Reader
    #REDIRECT [[The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett]]
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  • Keeping On Keeping On: Diaries 2005-2014 by Alan Bennett
    |author=Alan Bennett ...decision as to what should be published. What ''was'' published - and by Bennett - was more open than the earlier work. ''Keeping On Keeping On'' follows a
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  • Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett
    |author=Alan Bennett |summary=Two long tales from the charming pen of Mr Bennett, with witty sex and farce-worthy comic lines.
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  • A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
    |author=Alan Bennett |summary=The core work of [[Untold Stories by Alan Bennett|Untold Stories]] has been reprinted along with many of the photos. If you
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  • The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
    |author=Alan Bennett From a reader, to a reader. In this gem of a short story-come-novella, Alan Bennett, a famous bookworm himself, talks about what it is to read; the process, th
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  • Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
    ...ctually they are just the neighbours and so it is less important that Alan Bennett (AB as he's referred to in the book) comes around for dinner every night si ...sister Victoria, get to know the cast of characters in Nina's life. Alan Bennett is very dry, very funny, and rather sweet. It was most often his responses
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  • Three Stories by Alan Bennett
    |author=Alan Bennett ...downright vicious. There may not be any surprises, but it's a book by Alan Bennett. It gets, as you would expect, five stars from Bookbag.
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  • Top Ten Funniest Books
    ...trivia, and of course, the always excellent [[:Category:Alan Bennett|Alan Bennett]]. When you've wiped the tears of laughter away from your eyes, why not [ma |author=Alan Bennett
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  • A Certain Age by Lynne Truss
    ...if I had to try and put my finger on the difference I'd say that she lacks Bennett's edge of acidity, that feeling that he could be unpleasant but would prefe
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  • The Library Book by Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others
    |author=Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others ...e had on various writers' lives. There are some big names here, like Alan Bennett, Susan Hill, Zadie Smith and Lionel Shriver. I liked the variety in the vo
    4 KB (719 words) - 11:35, 24 September 2020
  • Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
    |author=Alan Bennett Four years ago I read Alan Bennett's ''Writing Home''. It was a collection of short writings, his ''Lady in th
    6 KB (1,096 words) - 07:37, 9 May 2018
  • Rory's Boys by Alan Clark
    |author=Alan Clark Alan Clark would still be in advertising himself were it not for [[:Category:Sue
    4 KB (759 words) - 16:02, 20 February 2018
  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
    ...this, her first novel, reveals her to be the [[:Category:Alan Bennett|Alan Bennett]] of her generation. Ms Joyce's powers of observation are finely honed. E ...would like to see if my comparison stands up, try [[Three Stories by Alan Bennett]].
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  • A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
    ...te than two or three pages written by most other authors. It's kinder than Bennett though, and by the end, even I was hoping George would be ok, Jean would ge Alan Bennett's [[Three Stories]] looks at pretensions and snobberies in a slightly less
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  • I'll Tell Me Ma: A Childhood Memoir by Brian Keenan
    ...orthern family life with Alan Bennett [[A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett|A Life like Other People's]].
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  • The Year of the Jouncer by Simon Gray
    ...ry retreat, and be mildly, wittily grumpy about modern everyday life. Alan Bennett, of course, amply fulfils this role for many. But there is a more dissolute ...moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia, his middle class existence a far cry from Bennett's Leeds backstreets. Gray's father was a pipe-smoking, philandering doctor;
    5 KB (877 words) - 14:09, 10 May 2018
  • Posthumous Stories by David Rose (writer of short stories)
    ...re deep though. One of my favourites is the [[:Category:Alan Bennett|Alan-Bennett-like]] ''The Fifth Beatle'' in which Vera tells us about her life, includin
    4 KB (655 words) - 10:08, 2 April 2018
  • 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
    4 KB (660 words) - 13:30, 9 April 2018
  • Intermission by Owen Martell
    There is a line in Alan Bennett's play ''The History Boys'' that I love. It talks about ''subjunctive hist
    4 KB (754 words) - 12:50, 17 March 2018
  • 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]].
    3 KB (539 words) - 07:25, 21 September 2020
  • 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
    4 KB (643 words) - 15:26, 2 February 2024
  • 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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  • Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
    ...cottonmouth snakes at the site of a plane crash. In the same way that Alan Bennett is very, very English, Klosterman is very, very American. Both men are clea
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  • The Bride That Time Forgot by Paul Magrs
    ...the erudite narrative of Brenda which reads rather like something of Alan Bennett's. Brenda seems to take her rather weird and wonderful life completely in
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  • Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
    ...his book appeals to you then you might also enjoy [[Untold Stories by Alan Bennett]].
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  • Toast: the Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
    ...her what Nigel had been doing when he took the dog for a walk is worthy of Bennett at his best.
    7 KB (1,209 words) - 10:13, 29 October 2020
  • Top Ten Books To Read In One Sitting
    |author=Alan Bennett
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  • Kane's Ladder by Carlos Alba
    ...ht in a few words and gentle humour which you normally associate with Alan Bennett and a plot which saw me reading into the early hours of the morning to find
    5 KB (795 words) - 16:27, 26 May 2021
  • Whizz Bang Orang-Utan by John Foster
    [[Category:Lee Bennett Hopkins]] [[Category:Alan Bagnall]]
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  • The Last Library by Freya Sampson
    ...ter, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Ch
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  • Letters From Klara by Tove Jansson
    ...up the relative time-lines, for me it held echoes (or precursors?) of Alan Bennett's ''Talking Heads'' piece ''A Lady of Letters'' – but unlike the Bennet p
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  • Maus by Art Spiegelman
    ...rtoonist and has a marvelous ear for dialogue in the same way as does Alan Bennett. His characters seem so alive, despite the awfulness of the situations they
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