LRB Diary for 2023

Bennett, Alan

£12.99

’20 August. It’s one of my life’s regrets that I have never kept a donkey.’ Alan Bennett’s 1983 diary was the first that he published in the London Review of Books, though by then he’d already been keeping one for about ten years. ‘Besides the occasional incident that seems worth recording,’ he wrote, ‘I put down gossip and notes on work and reading.’ This modest model has remained intact right up to the present, as Bennett has ascended to ever higher planes of national admiration and affection, and his much-loved LRB diary entries – which have come to be seen as a sort of alternative Queen’s Speech – approach their ruby jubilee. This week-to-view diary for 2023, illustrated by Jon McNaught and equipped with a clutch of useful features, contains a celebratory selection of some of his most immortal anecdotes and observations.

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Publish Date: 01/09/2022
ISBN: 9781800814899 Category: Tag:

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20 March 1983. There are sheep in the field. ‘I know what they are,’ she says, ‘but I don’t know what they are called. Thus Wittgenstein is routed by my mother. Alan Bennett’s diary for 1983 was the first to be published in the London Review of Books. ‘Besides the occasional incident that seems worth recording,’ he wrote then, ‘I put down gossip and notes on work and reading.’ Forty years on, his approach remains the same, and his diary has become a cornerstone of the first LRB of the year. This new selection accompanies the LRB’s diary for 2023: a classic entry for each week of the year, with illustrations by Jon McNaught – ‘of things from my desk, shelves and so on’ – and the usual useful features.

Additional information

Weight 360 g
Dimensions 212 × 154 × 16 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

90

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

822.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K