House Arrest (eBook)

The dyspeptic Pepys from Yorkshire, Alan Bennett, master of the "absurd and inexplicable" moments of ordinary life, offers up a curation of his thoughts, diaries and essays of the pandemic years that makes for a digestible stocking filler ... his thoughts and writing are as clear-eyed and vigorous as ever

His writing remains as deft and seamless as ever

From the singular pen of the incomparable Alan Bennett comes a drily witty and endlessly charming diary of life in and out of lockdown, running the gamut from park bench encounters to haircuts to Boris Johnson

Vivid and evocative in the way we've come to expect from him ... the diaries of the inimitable Alan Bennett are always highly anticipated

His stories improve with each telling ... Perhaps it is Bennett's long experience as a dramatist that lends his prose such perfect timing

Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip ... a major National Treasure

Our greatest living writer

He may clearly be increasingly frail but, even in lockdown, Alan Bennett retains his customary waspish wit in the latest tranche of his diaries

Sparklingly sardonic ... There really is no one like Bennett, as this small gem demonstrates

Mournful and witty ... Bennett at his best

Cleverer and funnier than any one person has a right to be

He still has the sharpest pen in Britain ... Bennett is at his best when flirting with indecency ... mesmerising and unbearably sad

There is no other writer, certainly none from any other era or nation, quite like Alan Bennett