Libros de Alan Bennett

Dos Historias Nada Decentes

• 160 páginas
• La señora Donaldson es una viuda reciente, de cincuenta y cinco años, con una hija casada, puritana e insoportablemente convencional que pretende que su madre viva reverenciando la memoria de un difunto marido muy aburrido. Aburrimiento cont...

Una Lectora Poc Corrent

• 96 páginas
• Un dia qualsevol al Palau de Buckingham la Reina descobreix, aparcada, la biblioteca mòbil de Westminster, una furgoneta antiquada amb un bibliotecari també antiquat. Una mica obligada per les circumstàncies, la Reina s'emporta...

Una Lectora Nada Común

• 128 páginas
• Si sus perros hubieran respondido a su llamada, la reina no habría descubierto el vehículo de la biblioteca móvil del ayuntamiento aparcado junto a las puertas de las cocinas del palacio. Y no habría conocido a Norman, el joven...

Unha Lectora Fóra Do Común

• 92 páginas

Una Lectora Poc Corrent

• 96 páginas
• És un dia qualsevol al Palau de Buckingham i els gossos de la Reina no paren de bordar cap a una banda del jardí per on ella no acostuma a passejar. Seguint-los, la Reina descobreix, aparcada, la biblioteca mòbil de Westminster, una...

The Shielding Of Mrs Forbes

• 80 páginas
• 'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Footballers with Their Shirts Off when she unexpectedly came in on the trail of the hairdryer.

Allelujah!

• 112 páginas
• - What were you in life?. - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster.. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened...

Writing Home

• 656 páginas
• Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading

Two Besides

Invest With Your Eyes Not Your Ears

• 208 páginas
• The media continues to perpetuate the same tired, old investing principles, and naïve investors are led by the nose to one catastrophic loss after another (2008, 2000, 1987, 1973, etc ).

Keeping On Keeping On

• Alan Bennett's third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On follows in the footsteps of..

The Uncommon Reader

• 128 páginas
• What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story. 'The Uncommon Reader' is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray...

Office Suite

• Doris 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 Appointments or pursuing their feud over a plug with Mr Cunliffe in Personnel. This is not...

Habeas Corpus

• The antics at the Wicksteed home are a satirical merry-go-round. Family, friends and the sexual satisfaction of the "corpus" (body) are the ruling passions in this farcical comedy of ill-manners. Through a dance of mistaken identities and carnal...

Say Something Happened

• The Social Services Department of the council ispreparing a register of the elderly in the area andeager but green June Potter (recently transferredfrom Transport) is despatched to gatherinformation while obtaining some hands-onexperience. Mam and Dad...

Bed Among The Lentils

• 26 páginas
• 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 to go to the off-licence because of her debts with the local shopkeeper....

Wind In The Willows

• This ingenious adaptation of the classic children’s novel created a sensation at the National Theatre of Great Britain. Here are Badger, Rat, Mole and Toad of Toad Hall in the familiar tale with a contemporary slant. Script and songbook...

The Lady In The Van. Film Tie-in

• 113 páginas
• New edition of the classic memoir to tie in with the major new film starring Maggie SmithIn 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into AlanBennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherdwas not an easy...

Soldiering On - A Monologue From Talking Heads

• 22 páginas
• Muriel's husband Ralph has just died, leaving her rather well off - until, that is, her son Giles gets his hands on the money and Muriel comes out the loser. Eventually, neglected by Giles and no longer needed by her disturbed daughter Margaret- whose...

Her Big Chance - A Monologue From Talking Heads

• 26 páginas
• 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 of time topless and shoots a man with a harpoon gun. She tells all,...