Sex, drugs and what I REALLY think about Queen Camilla: ALAN BENNETT'S surprisingly raucous diaries lift lid on his young male crushes, celebrity parties (and Judi Dench's VERY 'lively love life')

Alan Bennett, our greatest living writer - and such an accredited national treasure in Britain that the public applaud him in car parks - is feeling every bone-cracking moment of his 90-odd years.