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With the launch of The First Dog to be Somebody’s Best Friend, in the summer of 2007, Tom Stacey has added a new genre, that of children’s literature, to his creative output. This book followed his recent entry into the field of biography with his monograph, Thomas Brassey, the Greatest Railway Builder in the World (2005), and his return to the broad category of literary travel in 2003 with Tribe, the Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon, which he launched with a major gathering at the Royal Geographical Society in February 2004. This was followed later that year by appearances at the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival as a guest speaker with writer, critic and broadcaster, Anthony Sattin; and at Bradford Festival, Lewes Live Literature and Birmingham Festival.

Stacey's creative thrust, however, remains that of fiction. Here he has lately concentrated on the genre of the long short story, of which a series has appeared in the US literary journal Confrontation. These long-shorts include: Boredom, Or The Yellow Trousers (2006), The Swap (2005), Golden Rain (2002), The Tether of the Flesh (2001), The Same Old Story (1999).

New fiction, including Mary’s Visit (a long-short), and Absolution (a novella) are in preparation; and a screenplay is currently under development, with the working title of Bye-Bye Mister Debooly, Bye-Bye.

Tom Stacey actively sustains his role as Director of the Offender’s Tag Association. As the country’s principal independent spokesman in support of the potential of tagging, appropriately applied, as an alternative to imprisonment, he frequently appears on television and BBC radio.

As founder, in 1947, of Eton College’s Wotton’s Society (devoted to philosophy) Tom Stacey was invited to address the society on its sixtieth anniversary at Eton in March 2007, choosing the theme of 'A Sanctity to Ethnicity', subsequently published as a philosophical paper for private circulation. Ten years previously, he addressed the Society on the subject of the theme of 'Is Man Advancing?' which has also been separately published.

As a Trustee of English PEN, Tom Stacey is active in support of writers persecuted abroad and of the elimination of political and ideological censorship, and lends his house and garden on Kensington Church Street in London as the venue for English PENs annual garden party, at which the PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography is awarded.

The year 2008 sees the republication of his novel Deadline, under the new title of The Man who Knew Everything, under the Capuchin Classics imprint. Tom Stacey plans a series of lectures on the literature of the Gulf, and a speaking tour of South Africa on the publication in 2008 of the paperback edition of Tribe, the Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon.

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