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First published in 2022
by Faber and Faber Limited
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London WC1B 3DA
and
Profile Books Ltd
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London EC1A 7JQ

Typeset by Agnesi Text, Hadleigh, Suffolk Printed and bound by Clays Ltd, Elcograf S.p.A.

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© Forelake Ltd, 2022

Illustration of Alan Bennett’s desk © Jon McNaught

A selection of these diary entries was first published in the London Review of Books (7 January 2021) and then in House Arrest: Diary Selections from a Pandemic Year (LRB Limited Editions, 2021)

The right of Alan Bennett to be identified as authorof this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

isbn 978–1–800–81192–8
eisbn 978–1–800–81193–5