Alan Bennett promises 'More of the Same' in new anthology

Keeping On Keeping On, a third collection of lectures, diaries and other occasional writing, will be published this autumnFrom a host of previously unseen diary entries, to a broadside against the injustice of private education and a previously unpublished radio play, a new prose collection by Alan Bennett due out this autumn looks set to be one of next Christmas’s bestsellers.Called Keeping On Keeping On, the collection of Bennett’s diaries from 2005 to 2015 is due out in October, its joint publishers Faber and Profile have announced. The title is the writer’s third prose collection, following Writing Home and Untold Stories. To date, Bennett has sold more than 1.5m books in the UK alone, according to his publishers. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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Panel Mania: Save It For Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood by Nate Powell

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President Obama, Ava DuVernay bring 'A Promised Land' to L.A. Times Community Book Club

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