EXCLUSIVE: Prof Suzannah Lipscomb on student life in Oxford, the Tudors, giving women a...
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb has got so many letters after her name it's hard to get to the heart of the matter, ie her many achievements.
To summarise then...
COMPETITION: Kids going Bananas? Then enter our book giveaway to win One Banana, Two...
Going Bananas in Lockdown?
Are your kids climbing the walls? Constantly raiding the fridge? Giving each other sneaky unsupervised haircuts when your backs are turned? YIKES! Then you’re...
COMPETITION: Win signed copies of local author Lucy Atkins’ best-selling novels Magpie Lane and...
If your self-isolation reading list is running a bit low, make sure you enter our competition to win signed copies of Lucy Atkins’ novels Magpie Lane and...
Make bread, garden, drink gin, read, write, journal, eat ice cream, star gaze, pamper...
Here are our Top 10 ways to keep smiling and positive during the pandemic
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...
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...
Oxford Literary Festival fights for survival and asks for your help to cover £170,000...
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, the coronavirus epidemic has hit the Oxford Literary Festival like a freight train. Without cancellation insurance and with £170,000...
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...
Oxford’s Cara Hunter talks about new novel ‘All The Rage’, taking the crime world...
The phrase 'page-turner' doesn't seem to do Cara's book credit, 'sleep depriver' does. Put it another way, I finished reading All The Rage at 4am.
From the Blitz to the swinging 60s: Fashion’s Audrey Withers is back in vogue...
"Behind a honey-coloured stone wall at the bottom of the Woodstock Road stands Somerville College. Its buildings are lovely but its archives are what interest me as...
