Enough Said: The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A TIMES BOOK OF THE SUMMER

'Alan Bennett is our greatest living writer' Daily Mail

'A legend of British letters' Financial Times

'In an age of curated self-belief, his vulnerabilities feel refreshing, his reticence almost radical' The Times


20 September. Have a notion for a radio series - Awkward Conversations.


Enough Said is Alan Bennett's fourth collection of diaries and prose. Covering the turbulent years 2016 to 2024, the diaries take us through lockdown, Brexit, the reign of Johnson, the rise of Trump and the death of the Queen. In between, we take the train with him back and forth to Yorkshire, celebrate the herons, the newts and the street fairs, and lament the scarcity of curlews, the closure of the last local bank and the deteriorating welfare state. There is the premiere of Allelujah!, the revived Talking Heads, the publication of two Sunday Times bestsellers and the filming of The Choral.

2024 is the year that Alan turns ninety; he reflects on old age and the importance of luck. He looks back to childhood and recalls an idyllic wartime month as an evacuee. A book for the bedside, this is poignant, funny, contemplative Alan Bennett, as he records life both personal and political in his most distinct of voices.
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE SUMMER 'Alan Bennett is our greatest living writer' Daily Mail 'A legend of British letters' Financial Times 'In an age of curated self-belief, his vulnerabilities feel refreshing, his reticence almost radical' The Times 20 September....

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Alan Bennett's works of prose include House Arrest, Keeping On Keeping On, Writing Home and Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006). His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and Killing Time. His celebrated work for the 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, Two Besides and Allelujah!
Alan Bennett's works of prose include House Arrest, Keeping On Keeping On, Writing Home and Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006). His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and Killing Time. His celebrated work for the stage and screen include Talking Heads, Forty Y...

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