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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)

Buried secrets

11:27am Wednesday 7th January 2009

MAGDA’S DAUGHTER

City of contrasts

11:28am Wednesday 7th January 2009

VIENNA: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY

People and how they tick

Wyn Bramley

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

Denise Cullington

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?

Robin Laurance

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

Have a good weekend

10:00am Wednesday 24th December 2008

THE WONDERFUL WEEKEND BOOK



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