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  The Mystery of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Oxford, £25) represents 20 years of study by Oxford historian Stephanie Dalley, of the Oriental Institute.
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           <title>Story of fall and decline</title>
           
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  In Melvyn Bragg's Grace and Mary (Sceptre, £18.99), John drives the long road to a care home in Cumbria to visit his ailing mother Mary who has Alzheimer’s. As she slips in and out of consciousness and coherence they sing her favourite songs and study old photographs of Wigton, bringing the town alive for them both.
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           <title>When Wantage had a railway link</title>
           
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  Wantage Road railway station was once a busy stop on the mainline from London to the West Country.
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           <title>Guide to dog-friendly pubs</title>
           
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  There’s no need to leave your dog at home when it’s time for the family holiday. There are loads of superb dog-friendly pubs, hotels and B&amp;Bs if you know where to look.
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           <title>Jane Austen &amp; Adlestrop</title>
           
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  Victoria Huxley, who lives in Adlestrop, has opened a new window on the Cotswolds family of Jane Austen, and their influence on her work.
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           <title>Victor Boys by Tony Blackman</title>
           
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  This country once had three V bombers, built to help keep the UK safe during the Cold War: the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor.
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           <title>William Burges and the High Victorian Dream</title>
           
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  J. Mordaunt Crook on William Burges, reviewed by Geoffrey Tyack
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           <title>Office Politics by Oliver James</title>
           
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  James Bond is unlikely to swap his gun for a word processor — yet if, like him, you are able to extract what you want from the environment by being ruthlessly self-serving then you should be able to blast your way past any latter-day Goldfingers to reach the top of the office pile.
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  Oxford, according to poet John Elinger, is “a curious hybrid of a somewhat decayed South Midland manufacturing town across Magdalen Bridge in the Cowley area. . . , and the historic centre of learning”. Elinger is the pen-name of Sir Christopher Ball, former Warden of Keble college, and he has compiled a poetic tribute to Oxford called That Sweet City, illustrated by Katherine Shock.
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  Science graduate Sophie Huxley, a distant descendant of scientist Julian and writer Aldous, is a gardener for Oxford colleges and the author of the Oxford Science Walk, Oxford Trees and Eric Gill in Oxford, published by her own business Huxley Scientific Press. Her latest is An Oxford Bestiary (£9), a catalogue of the weird and wonderful animals to be seen in the City in real life, stained glass, gargoyles or pub signs by those who keep their eyes peeled, from the ox opposite the railway station to the dodo in the Museum of Natural History.
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           <title>C. S. Lewis by Alister McGrath</title>
           
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  Alister McGrath’s fine new biography of C.S Lewis comes garlanded with an unnecessary and potentially misleading subtitle: “Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet”.
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           <title>Science of brainwashing</title>
           
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  The author, Kathleen Taylor, writes on the first page of The Brain Supremacy that neuroscience will soon become the most dominant science and its power will allow us to manipulate human nature by changing the brain, hence the title.
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           <title>Local author José Patterson</title>
           
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  Former advisory teacher José Patterson, who lives in Oxford, has written her first children’s book, No Buts, Becky! (Matador, £6.99) about an early 20th-century Yiddish-speaking Russian Jewish girl growing up in London’s East End. Feisty heroine Becky concocts a series of ‘brilliant’ ideas to wreck her father’s plan to use a matchmaker to find himself a new wife.
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           <title>Reminders of the Age of Dissent</title>
           
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  Local historian Martin Greenwood is best known for his work on Flora Thompson and the countryside of her memoir Lark Rise to Candleford.
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           <title>A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd</title>
           
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  Lying in state in University College, Oxford, is the ethereal, romantic and tragic figure of Shelley, who drowned off the coast of Viareggio in 1822. The white marble statue was commissioned by his daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Shelley, as a tribute to his hallowed memory.
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           <title>The Last Runaway</title>
           
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  There’s a lot of running away in Tracy Chevalier’s latest book, The Last Runaway. The first runaway is a young English girl, Honor Bright, who sets sail from Bristol with her sister, to join her sister’s fiancé in America, and to seek a cure for her own broken heart. She finds a new life all right, but also finds herself alone, a long way from home, ill, exhausted, bereaved, and in a household among strangers where she has no place.
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           <title>Peaches for Monsieur le Curé</title>
           
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  Sometimes you can tell straightaway if you’re going to enjoy a book. You settle yourself comfortably in your chair, and revel in the language, the words, the story, knowing that this will be a good read.
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           <title>Islands Beyond the Horizon</title>
           
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  Rats have rarely had a good press, but in these fascinating accounts of the near destruction and ultimate survival of the remotest wildlife environments we learn of the key role played by these indiscriminate killers.
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           <title>A Narrow Margin of Error by Faith Martin</title>
           
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  You learn something new every day. I’ve only just discovered that all the titles in Faith Martin’s detective series include the word ‘narrow’ because she herself lives on a narrow boat. It’s obviously no coincidence that the heroine of the novels lives on a narrow boat too, moored at Thrupp.
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  The Radcliffe Observatory in Woodstock Road was built at the suggestion of Oxford University astronomy professor Dr Thomas Hornsby, after he had used his room in the Bodleian Tower to observe the transit of Venus in 1769. It is now the venue for showings of Black Drop, by Turner Prize-winning artist Simon Starling, who filmed the transit of Venus last June in Hawaii and Tahiti. The next is due in 2117.
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