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The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny. From Publishers Weekly Briskly original and subversively funny, this novella from popular British writer Bennett ( Untold Stories ; Tony-winning play The History Boys ) sends Queen Elizabeth II into a mobile library van in pursuit of her runaway corgis and into the reflective, observant life of an avid reader. Guided by Norman, a former kitchen boy and enthusiast of gay authors, the queen gradually loses interest in her endless succession of official duties and learns the pleasure of such a common activity. With the dawn of her sensibility... mistaken for the onset of se

Who reads the Uncommon Reader?

Author

Bennett, Alan

Publisher

Picador

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571246786

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.81 / 5 (607 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14