The English Teacher - Le Moignan, Mick
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The English Teacher (Novel) After the presumed death of Mr Henry Barraclough, seven school exercise books, written in his own hand, were found among his effects. They hold some clues as to the state of his mind, at and after the time of his resignation from Effingham School, but they do not cast any further light on his mysterious disappearance in June 1996. The accusation of sexual impropriety that brought his brilliant teaching career to a premature close has not been supported by any evidence. Later investigations indicate that it may well have been completely spurious. These writings are…mehr

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The English Teacher (Novel) After the presumed death of Mr Henry Barraclough, seven school exercise books, written in his own hand, were found among his effects. They hold some clues as to the state of his mind, at and after the time of his resignation from Effingham School, but they do not cast any further light on his mysterious disappearance in June 1996. The accusation of sexual impropriety that brought his brilliant teaching career to a premature close has not been supported by any evidence. Later investigations indicate that it may well have been completely spurious. These writings are offered to the public by some of Henry Barraclough's grateful former pupils. We are publishing them as a fond and respectful memorial to a man who may, we believe, be more sinned against than sinning.
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Mick Le Moignan is a Sydney-based writer and tv producer and a consultant on fundraising, marketing and communications. He grew up in Jersey and read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge University. After working as a tv newsreader and tv critic for The Stage, he moved to Australia and reviewed tv, theatre and film for The Australian, The National Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald. For ABC-Radio, he wrote The Poet's Tongue, adaptations of The Tree of Man by Patrick White, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and dramatised documentaries on the life and work of Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Aldous Huxley and Patrick White. For Corroboree Films, he produced several films on contemporary Aboriginal life, including Eora Corroboree, and won two Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE awards for dramatised documentaries, one on Aldous Huxley and the other on drug and alcohol awareness in indigenous communities. In the UK in the 1990s, he was Story Editor on Eastenders, Script Editor on The Bill and an independent producer for BBC-TV, producing over 100 documentaries on a wide range of subjects, including the popular series Turning Points, in which celebrities told the story of a pivotal moment in their lives. He took a Diploma in Law in London in 1995 and was for two years Artistic Director and General Manager of a large provincial theatre. An unexpected career change led to five years as Deputy Director of Development at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He came home to Sydney in 2009 to join the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as General Manager, External Relations. His book on the international outreach of the University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney - Australia's Global University, was published by NewSouth Press in 2017. From 2005 to 2020, he edited Once a Caian..., the annual alumni magazine of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He currently writes a regular column on Australian life and politics for The Jersey Evening Post. The English Teacher is his first novel.