"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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...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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...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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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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Alan Bennett's [[Untold Stories]] is another wonderful memoir by an author who values pr
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There is a line in Alan Bennett's play ''The History Boys'' that I love. It talks about ''subjunctive hist
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[[Scar Night by Alan Campbell]]<br>
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...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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...k appeals then we think you might also enjoy [[The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett]].
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...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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...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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...ively about an elected leader, the wonderful [[The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett]] is very much in a similar vein.
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...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
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...oetzee]]. You'll probably also enjoy [[A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett]].
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...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
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...ooks then we're sure that you'll also like [[The Uncommon Reader]] by Alan Bennett.
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...book appeals the we think that you'll also enjoy [[Untold Stories by Alan Bennett]].
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...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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...is book appeals then we think you might also enjoy [[Three Stories by Alan Bennett]].
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...u might like to try [[Fup by Jim Dodge]] and [[The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett]].
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...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 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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...his book appeals to you then you might also enjoy [[Untold Stories by Alan Bennett]].
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...her what Nigel had been doing when he took the dog for a walk is worthy of Bennett at his best.
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...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
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...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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...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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...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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...n such as the classic 1960s girl groups, as well as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, with whom she was thrilled to record a duet four months before she died.
...has been called the ''27 Club''. Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Alan ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain, who all died at the
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[[The Library Book by Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others]] is of course of interest to those who prefer their books used.
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...ill [[The Library Book by Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett and others]] is vital and relevant enough to be quoted in the book at hand.
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...ying with happiness. This, Joyce's first novel, reveals her to be the Alan Bennett of her generation. Don't miss it.
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