Nostalgia, shame and gossip from Alan Bennett in the fourth instalment of his diaries ...

Inside Alan Bennett’s latest diaries: Maggie Smith, the Queen, Trump and... Love Island - BOOKS: At 91, the writer remains ...

Among other things, the diaries are notable as the internal record of a thinking, feeling person behind the icon of the secular saint, who bristles at the thought of standing among “rank upon rank of ...

Alan Clark’s initial offering, covering 1983-92, appeared in 1993. Tony Benn’s hilariously tedious volumes emerged on a ...

As our greatest living writer publishes his latest collection of diaries and prose, here are his finest books, plays and TV ...

Bennett is 82 now, and lives much of the time in NW1 – the very street once home to the Lady in the Van, who parked in his front garden, in a neighbourhood memorialised in the Mark Boxer comic strip, ...

Now publishing his fourth collection of diaries, the 91-year-old legend of British letters talks about shyness, ‘feeling ...

As an over seventy, I am officially exhorted to remain isolated, indoors,” Bennett notes wryly on 14 March 2020, “which is to ...

He got stuck in the bath and met the queen. But despite a few wobbles and procedures, the author still can’t believe his age Windsor. The royal dolls’ house at Windsor Castle is being revamped to ...