“You have to keep going.” Clover Stroud talks grief, circus sister Nell Gifford and...
"It's nice that people will be thinking about Nell when they read my book," Clover Stroud says, pausing before she adds wistfully: "Nell was such a diva...
Giffords Circus Cookbook is a ray of sunshine in a bleak year. Circus Sauce...
"Giffords Circus was like a magic world I'd never come across. It was totally intoxicating," Ols Halas reminisces.
"I still remember being dropped off at Fennells Farm in...
TOP 15 PICKS: Space, outlaws, Bollywood, history, nature, animals, detectives – Ox Lit Fest’s...
Oxford Literary Festival's line-up for children and young people this year is incredible! Here are our top picks to book now!
PAWS FOR THOUGHT: SF Said, Tyger, Saturday,...
“Deliberate, cogitate and digest:” Loyd Grossman talks TV, books and elephants before his virtual...
When I catch up with Loyd Grossman, although I am keen to hear about his new book An Elephant in Rome, it's his voice I am after,...
TOP PICKS: Children’s Oxford Literary Festival line up boasts big names from Michael Rosen...
Children and young people are in for a treat as Oxford Literary Festival prepares to kick off on Saturday with an extensive programme of famous authors and...
BOOKS: Massive success of Fellow Ox In A Box-er Sarah Adams ‘THE LIFE EDIT’...
The power of daily journaling and why we all need to do it
Is DI Ryan Wilkins the new Morse? Simon Mason on crime writing, the Oxford...
Author Simon Mason doesn't watch TV or go to the cinema, hasn't watched Lewis or Endeavour and is unaware of JK Rowling's Cormorant Strike.
And yet his new...
‘We punch above our weight’ Famous authors and big names flood to Chipping...
The likes of David Baddiel, Adam Henson, Ed Stourton, Marina Hyde, Will Gompertz, Clare Mackintosh and Simon Sebag Montefiore will be gracing the Chipping Norton Literary Festival this...
‘I still love sitting at my kitchen table making stuff up’ Crime writer Ann...
Ann Cleeves is chatting to me from her kitchen table in Northumberland's Whitley Bay where she writes her famous novels Vera, Shetland and more recently The Long...
“Writing gets me out of bed in the morning”. Crime writer Mick Herron on...
"Playing the author rather than the writer is enjoyable, but I have to go and lie down in a dark room afterwards," Mick Herron chuckles.
We are talking...