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Do you remember being at Catterick and Singapore with your parents? We used to be friends way back then. We lived a bit further down Harley Crescent at Catterick. My maiden name was Macksey and my brother Andrew & I used to play with you and your sister Jackie. I still remember some of the things we used to get up to. My father became a military historian and wrote many books...Kenneth Macksey, now sadly deceased.

Nigel Shakespear Hello Sue, I do indeed. A bolt from the blue! How exciting to hear from way back. I guess this is more or less public so would be very glad to be in e…moreHello Sue, I do indeed. A bolt from the blue! How exciting to hear from way back. I guess this is more or less public so would be very glad to be in email contact with you. Mine is nshakespear@yahoo.com - if you send me a line I'll come back to you. (less)

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Nigel Shakespear After 10 years of working in Romania I wanted to write about this fascinating and interesting country where I was often being asked 'What do you think…moreAfter 10 years of working in Romania I wanted to write about this fascinating and interesting country where I was often being asked 'What do you think about our country?' and where I found great contradictions: people stuck in a mindset from the communist era, people with enthusiasm and full of life, administrations following their own interest at the expense of others, those committed to the betterment of the society. And then I came across the oral history works of Studs Terkel and Tony Parker and knew I could use this style. So I found outsiders, people who had chosen to live in Romania, those who were more integrated with Romanian people, and I asked them to help me with coming to an answer to that question, 'what do you think of our country?'(less)

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	Times New Romanian 3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stabilit în România 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary of Connie Shakespear really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary of Connie Shakespear: The Naga Hills 1900-1902 by Connie Shakespear, Nigel Shakespear (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Written as therapy after a traumatic upbringing inside a controlling cult Beth's honest account has great integrity, is illuminating and engaging and revealing of her strength of character in the face of lifelong psychological affliction. You leave t ...more
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A world class literary achievement - one to go back to again and again. In two parts. Took me a few years to get round to reading Pt II. Equally brilliant.
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“A very useful little phrase given to me by a Romanian friend goes – in Romania anything is possible, everything is impossible and nothing is ever as it seems.”
― Nigel Shakespear, Times New Romanian

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