Lady in the Van (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Lady in the Van (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden

Lady in the Van (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

A work of non-fiction that follows the author's other little blockbuster 'The Clothes They Stood Up

The Lady in the Van and Other Stories (Bennett Alan)(Paperback)

Now a major motion picture starring Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett's famous and heartwarming story The Lady in the Van, and more of Bennett's classic short-form work Alan Bennett has long been one of the world's most revered humorists. From his acclaimed story collection Smut to his hilarious and

Lady in the Van (Bennett Alan)(Paperback)

New edition of the classic memoir to tie in with the major new film starring Maggie Smith In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in

Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin - An Anthology by Alan Bennett (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. In this personal anthology, the author has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling

Talking Heads (Bennett Alan (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC

Uncommon Reader (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

The bestselling classic reissued for the Queen's 95th

Four Stories (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Includes such stories as: 'Father! Father! Burning Bright'; 'The Clothes They Stood Up In'; 'The Laying on of Hands'; and 'The Lady in the

Allelujah! (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

- 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 with closure as part of an NHS efficiency

Habit of Art (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H

Wind in the Willows (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Believe me, my young friend, there is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In them or out of them, it doesn't matter. Whether you get away or you don't, whether you arrive at your destination or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always

Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sedaris David)(Paperback / softback)

'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Guardian review of An Evening with David

Smut - Two Unseemly Stories (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more

Card - A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (Bennett Arnold)(Paperback / softback)

All Quiet on the Orient Express - reissued (Mills Magnus)(Paperback / softback)

'Hilariously surreal. It's a bit like the Coen Brothers directing an Alan Bennett play... Fantastic' Daily

Neobyčejný čtenář - Alan Bennett

Novela Neobyčejný čtenář (The Uncommon Reader) oceňovaného britského dramatika Alana Bennetta (za svou hru The History Boys v roce 2006 obdržel šest divadelních cen Tony Awards) začíná popisem neobvyklé situace, kdy královna, když náhodou zabloudila do pojízdné knihovny,

Secret Life of Cows (Young Rosamund)(Paperback / softback)

****A Sunday Times bestseller******A Times Book of the Year 2017***WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's LifeCows are as varied as

The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders (Aitken Ben)(Paperback)

'A tale of gloriously eccentric British pensioners. Aitken rivals Alan Bennett in the ear he has for an eavesdropped remark ... boy, can he write.' Daily Mail, Book of the Week FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED A CHIP SHOP IN POZNAŃ. One millennial, six bus trips, one big generation gap. When

Level 3: My Fair Lady (Lerner Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Contemporary / British English My Fair Lady is the story of a poor young flower-seller and a professor who doesn't like women. The professor decides to teach the flower-seller to speak better English. He wants to change her from street-girl to lady. But what will he learn from

History Boys - With GCSE and A Level study guide (Bennett Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of The History Boys with a comprehensive study

My Fair Lady (Lerner Alan)(Paperback / softback)

When overbearing Professor Higgins stumbles on flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, in Covent Garden he recognizes that her hideous vowels and forgotten consonants are all that separate her from the upper classes. Higgins wagers that he can pass her off as a Duchess in a matter of weeks. But what will

Lady in the Lake (Chandler Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Talking Heads (Bennett Alan (Author))(Pevná vazba)

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC

Tigers Burning Bright - SOE Heroes in the Far East (Ogden Alan)(Paperback / softback)