Untold Stories

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The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award, the South Bank Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work with figures such as Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and John Gielgud. With the sudden descent of his mother into depression and, later, dementia, a long-held family secret is uncovered in this moving and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of our best-loved English writers. 75 Condition: Pre-loved book. This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre, a West End double-bill transfer and the films of 'The History Boys' and 'The Lady in the Van'. Untold Stories is published jointly with Profile Books. Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces. Standard UK £2.