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Alan Bennett's hugely enjoyable and insightful diaries from the last ten years - a Sunday Times bestseller
Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The History Boys won numerous awards including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Broadway, The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critcs' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tony's. The Habit of Art opened at the National in 2009. His collection of prose, Untold Stories, won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. The Uncommon Reader was published in 2007 and Smut in 2011. The film of The Lady in the Van, starring Maggie Smith, was released in 2015 with the tie-in edition spending several weeks on bestseller lists.
Cleverer and funnier than any one person has a right to be.
*Sunday Times*
Our most subversive playwright... and able to make the world dance
with a single word. On every page there is a phrase to make you
smile, poetry disguised as comedy.
*Mail on Sunday*
Fire lit. Hot, thick toast. Coffee. Reading the inimitable Mr
Bennett. Happiness.
*Nigel Slater*
Confirms his reputation as one of the sharpest and funniest writers
in the English language.
*Spectator*
Our greatest living writer.
*The Times*
Screamingly funny.
*Miranda Sawyer*
An endlessly rewarding read by a man for all seasons and one who
occupies a unique place in our culture and affections
*The Arts Desk*
Few diarists could offer such a consistently funny and touching
authorial voice as Bennett. Long may he keep on keeping on.
*Daily Telegraph*
There is no other writer, certainly none from any other era or
nation, quite like Alan Bennett, and having this much more of his
work is an uncovenanted blessing.
*Evening Standard*
There is not a dull or uninteresting page here ... teddy bear he
may be but he has a tiger's teeth
*The Herald*
This latest anthology of diaries and essays is a beautiful, humane
and honest collection of reflections
*Rachel Reeves*
Every piece here conveys the sense of an idiosyncratic and cussed
mind, alive and open to the world
*Guardian*
The literary equivalent of a warm cup of Horlicks spiked lavishly
with whisky
*Metro, Books of the Year 2016*
[A] lavish miscellany ... appreciative, nostalgic and also hugely
funny.
*Prospect*
'Alan Bennett, with his combination of pitiless observation and
gentle understatement, is perhaps the best-loved of English writers
alive today
*Sunday Telegraph*
Intelligent, educated, engaging, humane, self-aware, cantankerous
and irresistibly funny
*Sunday Times*
Alan Bennett's work, which stands as one of the major achievements
across several genres in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries, demands the very best of us: not our praise but our
attention.
*TLS*
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