“I just miss her.” Clover Stroud on motherhood, grief, books and life after...
Clover Stroud is surrounded by the usual organised chaos on which she thrives when we hook up. Her husband Pete is away working in the US for...
Big names Val McDermid, Robert Goddard, Richard Osman and more celebrate St Hilda’s Crime...
St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend is celebrating in stye with some massive names from the literary world congregating in Oxford, and the fun starts today.
To mark its...
EXCLUSIVE: Oxford’s Cara Hunter on new crime thriller Murder In The Family, two TV...
Cara Hunter is killing it at the moment with her new crime thriller Murder In The Family whose TV rights were instantly snapped up by Sam Mendes'...
Why Lucy Atkins’ latest novel Magpie Lane will set the cat amongst the pigeons...
Half way through my interview with the best-selling author Lucy Atkins, at The Weston Library in Oxford, I realise I have lost her attention.
While answering my...
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...
“Fiction is a very powerful tool.” Famous writers Patrick Gale and David Constantine on...
“The first time I did one of these was especially poignant because my subject was sat there in the front row, which moved me to tears.”
When author...
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...
“British historians need to get their act together” Famous actor Paterson Joseph, new Chancellor...
Paterson Joseph is currently wrapping up new Hollywood film Wonka (the much hyped precursor to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory starring Timothée Chalamet), in which he...
We interview Sir Michael Morpurgo at Oxford premiere of Waiting For Anya, which opens...
It's chaotic at The Phoenix Picture House. There are hordes of teenage girls waiting for Hollywood teen star Noah Schnapp to arrive for the film premiere of...
“These women helped me find my voice again” The 100 Women of Oxford featuring...
The 100 Women of Oxford is as much the story of photographer Philippa James as the extraordinary women it features.
Because Philippa was struggling when she started the...
