A memoir that offers a portrait of the author's parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra.

Features none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. The consequence is surprising, mildly shocking and funny.

Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. Talking Heads is regarded as a modern classic. This edition, which contains the collection of Talking Heads , as well as his earlier monologue, A Woman of No Importance , is a celebration of his work.

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; ..

Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic 'Writing Home', updated for paperback with new unpublished diaries.

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

A collection of Alan Bennett's prose. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Also included are essays, reviews, lectures and reminiscences.

A wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's writings, and the companion volume to 'Untold Stories'. Rejacketed to accompany the paperback of 'Untold Stories' and the film of The History Boys.

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

The Queen finds a strange van in her driveway that turns out to be a travelling library. She enters and borrows a book. One book leads to another and the Queen discovers the joys of reading for pleasure.

Alan Bennett gives A.A. Milne's characters the voices you felt they were always meant to have in this collection of stories about Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Owl.

Alan Bennett gives A.A. Milne's characters the voices you felt they were always meant to have in this collection of six stories from The House at Pooh Corner , including the one where the game of Pooh sticks was invented.

Alan Bennett gives A.A. Milne's characters the voices you felt they were always meant to have in this collection of stories about Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and Owl.

When they strayed through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the Queen discovered the City of Westminster travelling library. One book leads to another and the Queen is soon engrossed in the delights of reading. However, the royal household dislikes the Queen's new interest; it makes them uneasy. Books are devices that ignite the imagination.

Written with the author's insight into human nature, this title features: A Chip in the Sugar with Alan Bennett, A Lady of Letters with Patricia Routledge, Bed Among the Lentils with Anna Massey, Soldiering On with Stephanie Cole, Her Big Chance with Julie Walters, and A Cream Cracker Under the Settee with Thora Hird.

The decades-old question surrounding the death of the Red Baron has been embroiled in controversy. This study covers the life of Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who is well-known as an ace fighter pilot. It also covers Captain Brown's encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in detail.