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Alan Bennett has been a leading dramatist since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works for stage and screen include Talking Heads, Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III, an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn, Cocktail Sticks and Allelujah! His collections of prose are Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006) and Keeping On, Keeping On. Six Poets contains Bennett's selection of English verse, accompanied by his commentary. Recent fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.The dyspeptic Pepys from Yorkshire, Alan Bennett, master of the "absurd and inexplicable" moments of ordinary life, offers up a curation of his thoughts, diaries and essays of the pandemic years that makes for a digestible stocking filler ... his thoughts and writing are as clear-eyed and vigorous as ever
Times Best Biography and Memoir Books of 2022
From the singular pen of the incomparable Alan Bennett comes a drily witty and endlessly charming diary of life in and out of lockdown, running the gamut from park bench encounters to haircuts to Boris Johnson
Waterstones Best Books of 2022: Biography
Sparklingly sardonic ... There really is no one like Bennett, as this small gem demonstrates
- Martin Chilton, Independent
Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip ... a major National Treasure
- Lynn Barber, Telegraph
Mournful and witty ... Bennett at his best
- Roger Lewis, Daily Mail
I worship Alan Bennett
- David Sedaris,
His stories improve with each telling ... Perhaps it is Bennett's long experience as a dramatist that lends his prose such perfect timing
- Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
Our greatest living writer
- Clive Davis, The Times
He still has the sharpest pen in Britain ... Bennett is at his best when flirting with indecency ... mesmerising and unbearably sad
Daily Telegraph
There is no other writer, certainly none from any other era or nation, quite like Alan Bennett
- David Sexton, Evening Standard
Cleverer and funnier than any one person has a right to be
- John Carey, Sunday Times
His writing remains as deft and seamless as ever
- Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian
Vivid and evocative in the way we've come to expect from him ... the diaries of the inimitable Alan Bennett are always highly anticipated
- Alastair Mabbot, The Herald
He may clearly be increasingly frail but, even in lockdown, Alan Bennett retains his customary waspish wit in the latest tranche of his diaries
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