Beginner's pluck: Writer Julian Stannard

A brilliant satire on the rise of bureaucracy in education

Julian Stannard for Beginner's Pluck

A shy child, Julian always loved reading. As his father travelled a lot, he went to boarding school in England and discovered great literature.

“We did TS Eliot’s Waste Land for A level. I didn’t understand it all, but I found it fascinating, and I wrote bits and pieces.”