Ever since he stepped into the limelight and celebrated revue Beyond the Fringe in 1960, Alan Bennett has been amusing and provoking successive generations with his gentle, self-mocking satire.

Writing Home is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Bennett's prose writings that might be subtitled 'Scenes from a Writer's Life'. In this autobiographical and delightfully idiosyncratic volume, Alan Bennett has brought together twenty-five years of diaries, reminiscences, broadcasting and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights.

Allan Bennett first appeared on the stage in the revue Beyond the Fringe. His stage plays include Forty Years On, Habeas Corpus, The Old Country, Enjoy, Kafka's Dick, The Maddness of George III, and an adoption of Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows for the National Theater. He has also written many television plays, including An Englishman Abroad, a series of monologues, Talking Heads, and A Question of Attribution.