All’inizio del 2020, l’intera umanità si è trovata d’improvviso immersa in uno dei più sinistri romanzi distopici che siano mai stati concepiti. Solo che non era un romanzo. E mentre la pandemia dilagava in successive ondate, non meno contagiose erano le ondate di retorica che si sono abbattute su tutti noi, in molteplici varianti. Contro questo secondo flagello, un farmaco efficace e senza effetti collaterali è «Arresti domiciliari», dove Alan Bennett – e chi, altrimenti? – riesce a guard...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022'Sparklingly sardonic ... There really is no one like Bennett' Independent'Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip ... a major National Treasure' Lynn Barber4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I ho...

Classic memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriterAlan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs brings together for the first time Telling Tales, Diaries: 1980-1990, the autobiographical section of Untold Stories, which covers the period 1997-2004, and Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries 2005-2014.In his ear...