The release date for the English version of 'The Uncommon Reader' by
Alan Bennett is Sep 2007. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The Queen finds herself pulling up an Ivy Compton-Burnett book from the Westminster mobile library outside Buckingham Palace, where she is escorted by her barking corgis. As boring as it is to read, the next week her selection turns out to be more pleasurable and inspires Her Majesty to become so passionate about books that it starts to interfere with her official responsibilities. Thus, her equerries work together to end the Queen's intellectual voyage as she devours works by authors ranging from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Beckett.