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Nicholas Bennett

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Born and raised in Evesham, Worcestershire. I left the area in my early twenties to seek fame and fortune as a singer in a rock 'n' roll band. When that didn't work out as planned, I became a teacher of teenagers (a responsibility that stills gives me sleepless nights- but that's a good thing, I'm told).

The wanderlust started when I left for Brighton and Blur and Oasis were battling it out and continued long in to my early 40s. My family and I have lived and worked in Egypt, France and Thailand but now reside happily in Suffolk. We have an unwritten rule that bans the sharing of pictures of far-flung exotic locations. Got to keep those feet from itching.

I've always been a writer of sorts. There has never been a time in my life when I didn' ...more

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. You work to live, you don't live to work. Not everything that counts can be counted, to paraphrase Einstein. Yes. I just paraphrased Einstein. I've finally done it. I've disappeared up my own ego. All I can offer by way of explanation is a lack of artificial stimulants. Today it is officially six weeks since I attempted to make smoking a thing of the pas Read more of this blog post »

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics) by Dostoevsky, Fyodor published by Oxford University Press, USA (2008)

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