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           <title>Orwell's Golden Country</title>
           
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  W hen the hero of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four wants to escape his ugly totalitarian society, he goes to a bluebell wood. There he finds ‘The Golden Country’ he has dreamed of all his life — an old pasture with a path, a molehole here and there. Somewhere nearby is a clear stream where dace swim beneath willows.
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  All that is left of Deddington Castle is a ditch, a mound and a grassy bank topped with trees, but thisparadise for dog walkers was once the headquarters of the second most powerful man in Britain, Bishop Odo.
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  When asked what effect the French Revolution had on history, China’s Maoist leader Chou En Lai is supposed to have said: “It is too early to tell.”
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           <title>Storybook for teachers</title>
           
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  Chris Smith and Adam Guillain are both professional storytellers who work with The Story Museum in Pembroke Street, Oxford. They have distilled their approach in a new handbook for teachers, The Storytelling School (£40).
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           <title>Local author David Chambers</title>
           
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  David Chambers worked his way up from an apprenticeship at Pressed Steel in Cowley to become manufacturing director at a BMW plant. Having retired at 55, he now lives in Churchill, near Chipping Norton, and has written a book about his great uncle. Tim China (£6.99) is about Timothy Richard, a missionary in 19th-century China who founded the first western-style university at Shansi in China and the first international famine relief organisation.
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           <title>Local author Gerald Wixey</title>
           
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  Gerald Wixey, 64, was a mechanical engineer before retiring, but is now a full-time writer. He was born in Wantage, where he still lives, and his writing is inspired by his experiences growing up in the Abingdon Arms, where his father was the landlord. 4 Bones Sleeping (Authoright, £8.99) is one of four titles in his collection of small-town thrillers, with the third book due to be published later this year. Its hero, owner of a small-town newspaper, is confronted with the horrors of his past as a reporter in wartime London when a murder occurs.
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  Entertaining evening on March 2 in aid of library
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           <title>The Real Jane Austen</title>
           
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  Our humble heroine, the third daughter in a large working-class family, educates herself to become a teacher, falls in love with a man who is just as clever as her, and ends up living in a grand Georgian house, furnished in Regency splendour, where grand balls take place in beautifully landscaped grounds.
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           <title>Close encounter with a Gruffalo</title>
           
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  Saturday is National Libraries Day, the culmination of a week of activities.
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  Matthew Bevis is a Fellow in English at Keble College, Oxford. Author of Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: Tennyson, he is also an expert on Byron, Dickens and Joyce.
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           <title>Extraordinary Facts about Sherlock Holmes</title>
           
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  For Nick Utechin, it was Douglas Wilmer in deerstalker and cape, in black-and-white on BBC TV. For the latest generation of Holmesians, it is Benedict Cumberbatch, in long coat and scarf, who has sparked an enthusiasm for Conan Doyle and his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. As a child, Nick discovered that his middle name, Rathbone (his mother’s maiden name), was shared by the actor who had first created the deerstalker and cape look. Basil Rathbone’s performance in the 1939 film of The Hound Of The Baskervilles had been a cinematic benchmark for all the actors who followed.
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           <title>Felicity Bryan - lady of literary connections</title>
           
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  There is a pink-walled pub across the road, an up-market hairdressers next door and various takeaway food shops dotted elsewhere along the narrow North Oxford street, which is festooned at present with festive bunting.
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           <title>A Funny Way With Words</title>
           
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  Residents of Charlbury may have been puzzled by the recent appearance of giant posters of seahorses around the town. They were put there by four poets to advertise their anthology, compiled after a performance in aid of a local theatre group.
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           <title>Michael Palin on his new book Brazil</title>
           
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  Michael Palin is embroiled in some Monty Python related fanmail when we speak. “Someone wants to know the exact words I spoke up a Scottish mountain when filming The Holy Grail, for a T-shirt,” he tells me. “How am I supposed to remember that kind of detail?”
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           <title>Happy Birthday to writers' group and bookshop</title>
           
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  Philip Pullman fans are eagerly awaiting The Book of Dust, an add-on to his award- winning His Dark Materials trilogy, which he has been working on for some years.
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           <title>Poets galore at two festivals</title>
           
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  Woodstock’s first poetry festival will host some of the most interesting poets writing in English today, many of whom live in Oxfordtford.
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