![]() ![]() Subversive and highly enjoyable, The Uncommon Reader offers the perfect argument for reading, written by one of its great champions, Alan Bennett.Īlan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Samuel Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close. ![]() ![]() This second, more fortunate choice of book awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. Duff read though it proves to be, upbringing demands she finish it and, so as not to appear rude, she withdraws another. ![]() But finding herself at its steps, she goes up to apologise for all the yapping and ends up taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett, last borrowed in 1989. Had the dogs not taken exception to the strange van parked in the royal grounds, the Queen might never have learnt of the Westminster travelling library's weekly visits to the palace. Perhaps you could find him one of our old paperbacks on his way out.' 'Oh Norman,' said the Queen, 'the prime minister doesn't seem to have read any Hardy. ![]()
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