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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories is published by Faber and Profile.

Selected bibliography

  • The Uncommon Reader (2007)  Buy this book
  • Untold Stories (2005)  Buy this book
  • The History Boys (2004)  Buy this book
  • Three Stories: “Father! Father! Burning Bright”, “The Clothes They Stood Up In”, “The Laying on of Hands” (2003)
  • The Lady in the Van (1999)
  • Writing Home (1995)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content What I Didn’t Do in 2007 · 3 January 2008

subscriber-only content The Uncommon Reader · 8 March 2007

subscriber-only content My 2006 · 4 January 2007

subscriber-only content Diary: What I did in 2005 · 5 January 2006

subscriber-only content What I Did in 2004 · 6 January 2005

subscriber-only content A Common Assault · 4 November 2004

subscriber-only content The History Boy · 3 June 2004

subscriber-only content Postscript · 19 February 2004

subscriber-only content A Shameful Year · 8 January 2004

subscriber-only content ‘Two in Torquay’ · 10 July 2003

subscriber-only content Secrets are best kept by those who have no sense of humour · 2 January 2003

subscriber-only content Seeing Stars · 3 January 2002

subscriber-only content The Laying on of Hands · 7 June 2001

subscriber-only content Alan Bennett’s 2000 Diary · 25 January 2001

subscriber-only content A Cure for Arthritis and Other Tales · 2 November 2000

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Memories of Linday Anderson · 20 July 2000

 not available in archive What I did in 1999 · 20 January 2000

 not available in archive Father! Father! Burning Bright · 9 December 1999

 not available in archive Untold Stories · 30 September 1999

 not available in archive What I did in 1998 · 21 January 1999

 not available in archive Nights in the Gardens of Spain · 1 October 1998

 not available in archive Alan Bennett chooses four paintings for schools · 2 April 1998

 not available in archive Notes on 1997 · 1 January 1998

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