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The author
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School Story is published by Three Cats Press, and can be ordered online.
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Read selected excerpts from School Story.
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Three Cats Press
About Iain Mackenzie-Blair, author of School Story.
Aultgrishan, Wester Ross,
IV21 2DZ.
Iain Mackenzie-Blair
The author, Iain Mackenzie-Blair, prize-winning poet published by diehard and regularly in Poetry Scotland, lives ten miles from the nearest shop in the North West Highlands looking across the Minch towards Skye. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and Balliol, Oxford. He is a former climbing instructor, columnist for the Irish Times, and was a Near Eastern archaeologist exploring the Dead Sea shore of the Judean Wilderness until the outbreak of the ’67 Arab-Israeli war. He then taught English at one of England’s great Public Schools where, latterly, he was also a Housemaster.
“Fiction? Autobiography? If the latter, I can’t imagine anyone admitting ‘Cranchester’ was the school he attended, let alone dare admit to membership of Ansell’s.”
“….terrifyingly credible; far, far too realistic and sexually explicit to be televisable, even in 2005.”

“….thoroughly uncomfortable memories for those who were away at school during the Second World War.”

“…as the ‘education’ of the protagonists is meticulously explored in convincing detail, it becomes clear that corruption  within this claustrophobic environment is mirrored by that in the outside world. Or is engendered by it?”

“….a curious quirk of the British upper and upper middle-class that they subject their children to be educated more intensively by the children of their own contemporaries, rather than the masters who are paid to teach them in the class-room.”

“….although terms like ‘peer-pressure’ and ‘child abuse’ may have been unknown in 1941, the facts speak for themselves…”

“It is perhaps Retribution, the author’s brief, ironic, epilogue which should give us most pause for thought.”
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