Books on the Bus Winner

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We’re pleased to announce that Rachel Brown, of Kirtlington Primary School, is the winner of the prestigious Books On The Bus Reading Competition for her review of Louis Sachar’s novel, Wayside School is Falling Down. Rachel now holds the title of Oxford Tube Child Book Reviewer, 2009. (more…)

Apr

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Spring Reads by iON’s Bookworm, Warwick Yolks

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Mary Cavanagh A Man Like Any Other (Matador, 2008 paper)

A local novel, self-printed and published, is the way to make many hearts sink; whatever we think of agents and the big publishing houses, surely they must be reasonably reliable (more…)

Jan

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The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

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Last year over 350 writers descended on one of Oxford’s most magnificent colleges, Christ Church, to talk, debate, and discuss ideas at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.

Festivals are wonderful at bringing people together creating (more…)

Jan

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Wintery Reads: iON Bookworm

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Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke

Simon & Schuster 2008 (hardback) £20.00

Nicholson Baker is formerly known only for Vox, the pioneering phone-sex novel, but this is utterly different, consisting almost entirely of the unedited words of the principal world actors in the 30s and 40s. (more…)

Jan

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Writing Childhood

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Oxford has been home to the greatest minds from every field imaginable, but an often forgotten and undervalued one is that of Children’s literature. Lewis Carrol was an eccentric Christchurch maths professor, and C.S Lewis and Tolkien were bosom friends and spent most of their time (more…)