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Daniel Abbott

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Born

in Chalfont St Giles, The United Kingdom

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Thriller, Crime, Mystery

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Daniel Christopher Abbott was born on June 27th, 1972 in a small hospital , somewhere in the leafy suburbs of Buckinghamshire. Over the following few years, he grew up - or so he thought - with an elder brother, Peter, and a younger one, Ben. He attended Burnham First School, then St. Peter's Middle School, and finally Burnham Grammar School, working extraordinarily hard to achieve average grades, despite his teachers' insistence that he was coasting, and not really working to the best of his ability. At the age of 16, Daniel made his first attempt at a novel - LEX TALIONIS, a British, young adult rip-off of the Stephen King novel IT - and a script for the classic series of DOCTOR WHO, neither of which ever saw the light of a publisher's of ...more

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Daniel Abbott's Blog: The Teacher's Guide To Daniel Abbott

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I was always told that if you have to explain a joke, it's not funny, which is why I'm NOT going to begin today's little offering with an explanation of my last Blog entry. All I will say is that I found it amusing - but I guess if I hadn't, I wouldn't have written it.

This past week has been another busy one at school, and so I haven't been able to find the time to Blog - any spare time has been Read more of this blog post »

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“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
― Russell T. Davies

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“that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws”
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― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

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