A beautifully produced, signed and limited edition of Alan Bennett’s recent bestseller Killing Time. Available exclusively from faber.co.uk.

Summary We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It’s less of a home and more of a club and very much a community. Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there’s Mr Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it’s also the key to liberation. As staff are hospitalised, protocol breaks down. Miss Rathbone reveals a lifelong secret, and the surviving residents seize their moment, arthritis allowing, to scamper freely in the warmth of the summer sun. ‘Mr Peckover, will you be wanting the foot feller?’ ‘Not today, thank you. I think I’ve just found the Holy Grail.’ ‘Well don’t bring it in,’ shouted Mrs McBryde. ‘Wash it first.’ Specification: The edition is printed on 80gsm Munken Premium Cream, with signed and numbered opening page; Sewn hardback with green/mustard head and tail bands and red ribbon marker, printed endpapers; Half bound-style spine with Brillianta 4044 (mustard) on spine and Fabriano Ingres Laid 704 (stony grey) on panels; Spine blocked in two foils, gold and red; Slipcase covered in 4033 Brillianta (green) on outside, lined in Wibalin Natural recycled WBR912 MICA on inside, individually wrapped in brown paper, labelled and numbered as per opening page and packed into individual cartons, also labelled and numbered.