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           <title>Author Patrick Gale prepares for the Bloxham Festival of Faith and Literature</title>
           
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  Patrick Gale is preparing to be received at New College for dinner, eating at High Table, fresh off the success of his Oxford alumni University Challenge win at Christmas, when we speak.
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           <title>Carpet Burns: My Life with Inspiral Carpets</title>
           
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  The UK economy was in poor shape, with unemployment rates at an all-time high. England’s youth were rioting and out of work. Then punk arrived on the scene.
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           <title>Can Onions Cure Earache?</title>
           
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  If you want to reassure yourself that now is a good time to be alive, take a look at the 1769 illustrations in the Bodleian Library ’s new edition of
  William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, which suggested its 18th-century readers should drink broths from sheep brain and put urine drops into their ears. There are also cow dung, oystershell and eel
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  Racehorse trainer Charlie&nbsp; Brooks, husband of Rebekah Brooks (née Wade), lives in Churchill, near Chipping Norton. His new thriller Switch (Harper Collins, £7.99), is published on September
  13, and endorsed by fellow Chipping Norton residents Jeremy Clarkson, who describes it as “a turbo-charged race to the finish”, and former Blur bass
  player Alex James, of Kingham, who says “I couldn’t put it down”.
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           <title>A feast of Hobbits at ready</title>
           
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  NICOLA LISLE previews The Tolkien Society’s annual Oxonmoot
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  The Pre-Raphaelites started as a group of hard-up young artists, who roamed the streets around 1848, looking for striking young women whom they politely asked to pose. Rossetti and Holman Hunt were
  both fine painters, but Millais was a genius. He was also a remarkably nice man, and his marriage to John Ruskin’s former wife Effie is one of the great Victorian love stories. There is still no
  decent biography, but Jason Rosenfeld’s book John Everett Millais (Phaidon, £39.95) is the first monograph to appraise his complete career, and it is magnificent. It is lavishly illustrated in
  colour and black and white. Rosenfeld argues, rightly, that Millais didn’t sell out when he moved away from Pre-Raphaelitism but went on doing marvellous work. There are great portraits (Gladstone,
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           <title>Local author Simon Tolkien</title>
           
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  Simon Tolkien is the grandson of the great JRR Tolkien and was born in Holywell Street, Oxford, in 1959 — his father taught at New College. He grew up and went to school and university in the city
  before becoming a barrister. In 1999, aged 40 he moved to California to become a full-time writer. The Inheritance (HarperCollins, £7.99) is his third mystery featuring Insp Trave of Oxford police.
  This time the detective is searching for the killer of an Oxford art historian.
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  Thompson’s debut novel, longlisted for this year’s Man Booker prize, contains ten apparently unconnected stories about a constantly changing city or cities.The author teaches English at St Anne’s
  College, Oxford, which could perhaps be one or more of his university cities — were it not for the quayside and the strange dystopian names. For example, one of the detectives in a Sherlock
  Holmes-style chapter, The Significant City of Lazarus Glass, is a Professor of Ratiocination at the unnamed university.
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  Hale’s life of Titian, one of the world’s greatest artists, is the first biography to be published in more than 130 years. This is partly because so little is known about the painter, but Hale
  fills the gap with vivid descriptions of life in renaissance Venice during his long life. Born some time between 1488 and 1490, Titian died in his late 80s with failing eyesight, perhaps because of
  cataracts or perhaps macular degeneration. During that time, Columbus landed in America, Luther challenged the Pope’s authority and Venice’s golden age began to fade. Hale’s scholarship reveals him
  to have been a difficult man, particularly in old age, and obsessed with chasing up payments from his patrons. Only half of his 600-odd paintings survive, including Triumph of Love, pictured above,
  which is owned by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford following a public appeal. The background shows the artist’s beloved Venice while behind are the
  Dolomites, where he was born in a remote mountain village. No one knows how he came to be sent to Venice to study painting, but Hale speculates that his talent must have shone through. The cherubic
  figure of Cupid in the Ashmolean painting reminds us that one of Titian’s most devoted imitators was Rubens, and Hale has no doubt that he influenced art for ever.
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  On The Eve by Bernard Wasserstein
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