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Absorbing books without reading
11:25am Wednesday 7th January 2009
HOW TO REALLY TALK ABOUT BOOKS YOU HAVEN’T READ Henry Hitchings (John Murray, £12.99)
People and how they tick
11:31am Wednesday 7th January 2009
Wyn Bramley has had a long and interesting career. It began when she was 17, having left home in the north in 1959 to work in a psychiatric hospital in Essex, which she describes as an old Gothic, monstrous, old-fashioned place.
When Christmas is last straw
10:22am Wednesday 31st December 2008
January 12 is D-Day — so called because it is the day when lawyers expect the highest number of calls from couples wanting to divorce. They typically stick together for one last Christmas as a family, but then split up the Monday after their children go back to school.
Local author
10:24am Wednesday 31st December 2008
Former policeman David Elliot, now an Abingdon-based IT executive, took a year out to write Clan (Moorhen, £7.99), a novel inspired by his research into his ancestry and the legends of the Scottish borders, particularly Hermitage Castle.
Just what you've always wanted?
10:03am Wednesday 24th December 2008
Here we go again – it’s that time of the year, when we need a few days off to recover from those frenzied searches through crowded shops bedecked in seasonal glitter, looking for those perfect gifts.
Children's books
10:01am Wednesday 24th December 2008
There’s a lot of discussion nowadays about how children are growing up faster than they used to, and perhaps faster than they should do. But, in China, during the Cultural Revolution, children certainly grew up faster than they should, and for indisputably the worst reasons. As Chairman Mao said: “A revolution is not a dinner party.”
Local author
10:02am Wednesday 24th December 2008
Oxford vet Chris Queen has teamed up with vet student Matthew Swaffield to produce Vet School: Getting Your Foot in the Door (Quintessential Publishing, £15) to guide aspiring vets through the applications process and give them a taster of what a vet’s life is like
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