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Stephen Lycett

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I write because it has never occurred to me not to. My father had a small library; I have been an English teacher throughout my working life; and from early childhood have been surrounded by books. I find it impossible not to emulate what I have read. If it is true that we are what we eat, it is equally true that we write what we have read. My reading habits are wide and indiscriminate. I love diaries and letters, fictions of all periods, but nineteenth century ones especially and Trollope in particular. Among historical novelists I admire Rose Tremain, George Macdonald Fraser, Penelope Fitzgerald and, above all, the now-almost-forgotten Zoe Oldenbourg.

I have written a number of plays, a musical (which has been performed) and a film script ...more

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All's Well That Ends Well In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version) (Shakespeare Retold Book 1)

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