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Writing: Books and Plays
Words that refuse to stay put.
Two books, five plays, and a standing suspicion that the interesting thing is always the thing nobody wanted to say first.
Out 20 November 2026
UN-PREPARED.
The Skills Gap Between Education and Real Life.
You have been told the problem is talent. Or effort. Or attitude. It isn't. The problem is that everything you were never taught, how to handle conflict, how to read a room, how to fail forward, is exactly what your career depends on. That is the skills gap. And it is larger than anyone in education is willing to admit.
Ebook first, on 20 November 2026.
The backlist
Becoming the Perfect Gentleman
Published in 2016 and co-written with Nic Wing, Becoming the Perfect Gentleman was the first book from The Perfect Gentleman, the media and education company Zach co-founded in 2012. Part handbook, part manifesto, it covers the fourteen things every man should own, etiquette for every occasion, romance, and the history of the gentleman himself. Now out of print.
The plays.
Five plays by Antony Blakeney.
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