The Lady in the Van (Paperback)

Alan Bennett

It's the first book that ever made me laugh out loud when I read it as a teenager, and it still makes me laugh today... Alan Bennett is a national mega-treasure

New edition of the classic memoir to tie in with the major new film starring Maggie Smith

Publication date: October 29, 2015

£6.99

ISBN: 9781781255407

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Biography & Memoir

The Lady in the Van (Ebook)

Alan Bennett

It's the first book that ever made me laugh out loud when I read it as a teenager, and it still makes me laugh today... Alan Bennett is a national mega-treasure

New edition of the classic memoir to tie in with the major new film starring Maggie Smith

Publication date: May 7, 2015

£4.99

ISBN: 9781847653574

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B00VM3A874

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Biography & Memoir

The Lady in the Van (Paperback)

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads, The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennett's house in Camden Town. After a series of attacks on her van, he suggested she move, with her van, to his front drive. Initially reluctant, she agreed - and Bennett landed himself a tenancy that went on for fifteen years. The Lady in the Van is probably Alan Bennett's best-known work of non-fiction, and follows his other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.

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£5.99

ISBN: 9781861971227

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Biography & Memoir

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett

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 the stage, including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of King George Ill (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George) and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won Evening Standard, Critics' Circle and Olivier awards, as well as the South Bank Award. On Broadway, The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award for Best Play, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys including Best Play. The film of The History Boys was released in 2006. Alan Bennett's collection of prose, Untold Stories, won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, 2006. His 2009 play, The Habit of Art, received glowing reviews and was broadcast live the following year by National Theatre Live. In 2012 People premiered at the National Theatre to widespread critical acclaim. The film of The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith was released in 2015, sending Bennett's memoir of the same name to the top of the bestseller list for nine weeks.

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