- Paperback: 95 pages
- Publisher: BBC Books; New Ed edition (6 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0563534362
- ISBN-13: 978-0563534365
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 600,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Yorkshire Evening Post, 11 August, 2007
'This delightful collection is full of the humour, warmth and poignancy that characterises his work... As with all of Bennett's work, Telling Tales is one of life's pleasures.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The childhood memoir of one of Britain's best-loved writers
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
I bought Alan Bennett's books on tape for my mother. She used to listen to them in bed at night, lying in the dark as Bennett's gentle, querulous voice described the minutiae of his family life in all its banal detail, illuminated by his wonderful observation and humour. Any one of his sentences will raise a smile. A whole book's-worth leaves you glowing with a feeling that all of our lives are equally full of this richness. How could they not be, when Bennett has found so much in what appears to be such a constrained and circumscribed world? He is indeed a national institution and we are fortunate that his voice on tape is perfectly equal to the poignancy and intimacy of his writing.
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
The mixture as before, warmth, charm, humour and a wonderful eye (and ear) for detail. Most people of the World War II generation will have similar memories, and for the younger listener these short tales bring to life, as does little else, what life was like more than half a century ago. The subject matter may be 'ordinary', but there is nothing ordinary in the way Bennett recounts it. He is one of the great joys of English literature and his inimical reading of his own texts is a source of constant delight.
51 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Yorkshire people live their lives in ever-decreasing circles, according to a recent report in the Yorkshire Evening Post. A majority of them, we are told, live within 12 miles of their mothers. For a Yorkshireman about to leave this womb-like comfort zone and move to the dreaming spires of Oxford, it seemed a good idea to feed my nostalgia in advance by reading Bennett's Tales. Bennett, the "lad from Armley", has been the archetypal professional Yorkshireman on TV, radio and in print for many years now, but this latest collection is a supreme distillation of his memories of a particular time and place. My own memories are about ten years behind Bennett's, but he has the gift of making that world so real, so vivid - even in its very ordinariness and, often, its drabness. His eye for whimsical detail is second to none. Of the many of his idle ramblings which stick in the mind, my favourite is his musing on the typical first names of nursing home residents. Currently, the trend is for Harolds, Walters, and Dorises - to be replaced over the coming decades by Waynes, Darrens and Kevins. ("You're our first Kevin", he reports one matron excitedly telling a new inmate). My only reservation is that the fare is spread a little thinly - only 95 pages...which raises a very serious issue for Yorkshiremen about whether we are getting value for money. This is why I have withheld the final star from an otherwise impeccable book.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
What a shame...
...that Amazon list this as a hardback (which I've read and which is brilliant as ever) and yet show a photograph of the 2xCD cover, for which you can search in vain!
Published 3 months ago by Neil French
Telling Tales
I would recommend this highly - especially for listening while driving. Everyone knows about Alan Bennet and this is a prime collection of his work.
Published 4 months ago by Mr. David Gordon
Voice of Alan Bennett
You can hear Bennett's voice as you read these 'talks' (now there's an old-fashioned word) for television/radio. Read more
Published on 1 April 2010 by booksetc
Telling Tales
Yet another "well worth it" buy. You don't really expect anything else from Alan Bennett though do you?. Can't say enough how much I enjoyed it. BUY IT!!
Published on 1 July 2009 by Rip Fox
Telling Tales
Wonderful Bennett. Little stories that make you smile and even though I am not quite as old I remember from my childhood some of the people he talks about. They are still with us. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2009 by A Bennett Fan
Alan Bennett - Telling Tales
In this most superbly written autobiography, Alan Bennett turns his well observed prose onto his own past and vividly recreates and relives his childhood and youth for us over 10... Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2002 by Mr. R. A. Williams
From cover to cover - pure plessure
This was a present and one which I shall treassue. The tales of family habbits, obersavitons of the human character and life in 1940s Leeds is pure plessure. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2001 by Laura Daly
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