Mary Zacaroli

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Carving out a niche

Stuart Barr should be the poster boy for a generation of young people who leave school at 16. He is proof positive that you do not need A-Levels and a university education to get on in life.

Exploring early life on earth

Martin Brasier is a time traveller employed by Oxford University. Over the course of his career as a palaeobiologist, he has gone back two to three billion years, travelling to inhospitable places and facing sometimes hostile people – all without leaving planet earth or his own life-time.

Fiction turns to fact

Writers are often accused of plundering their own lives for inspiration, but in the case of novelist Sophie King, it was fiction that turned into fact. Her fifth book The Wedding Party concerns the impending marriage of Geoff and Monique, who are both in their fifties.

Face that launched 1,000 ships

Helen of Troy — the face that launched a thousand ships — is one of the most famously beautiful women in history. Wife and Queen of King Menelaus of Sparta, her alleged abduction by Paris of Troy led to the ten-year Trojan War. But did she really exist and where is she documented?

Kids love Horrid Henry

Horrid Henry is a selfish little monster; hardly the role model one wants for one’s children.

Country lover's novel

Ann Lingard is that all too rare breed of person today; a polymath. A zoologist by education, she has worked as a journalist and broadcaster. Her name may be familiar to some as during the mid-1990s, she wrote the column ‘Walking the Dog’ for The Oxford Times magazine Limited Edition and presented a Radio Oxford Saturday show about the countryside .

Helping teenagers

Youth worker Nick Luxmoore was filled with despair when he first heard the stories of young refugees who had escaped to Oxford from countries where genocide, murder, rape and blood were part of everyday life.

A Prickly Affair by Hugh Warwick

Environmental journalist and campaigner Hugh Warwick loves hedgehogs; not in a cerebral, great-they-exist manner, but in a let’s get down on our knees and communicate way, as you can see from the photograph.

People and how they tick

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.