The Success of the Second Oxford Indie Book Fair &why it is needed.
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04, 2022
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03, 2022
Expecting the Unexpected . Food of Love on its way…
My fellow oxib organiser, James Harrison was on BBC Radio Oxford last night being interviewed with the artist John Buckley who created the famous Headington shark. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bsy6nh and forward to 6.35 to hear James and John. I was privileged to
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03, 2022
Asoka – a much needed example of good governance
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014xt4 This morning (March3) Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Sanskrit text the Arthashastra-one of the major works of Indian literature. According to legend, it was written by Chanakya, a political advisor to the ruler Chandragupta Maurya (reigned 321
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02, 2022
The Food of Love Cooking up a Story across gender,class and race
My memoir has been edited, copy edited and the cover designed now it goes to Claret Press's talented book designer Petya Tsankova to create the finished product. There'll be some unusual features. Each chapter ends with a relevant recipe
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02, 2022
My friend Weimin He’s highly recommended online workshops
Weimin says ‘I spent an hour and a half in the print room to study Raphael’s original drawing. I tried to draw the same size as the original and I presume Raphael might have spent no more than 1.5 hours
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02, 2022
Expect the Unexpected at the Second Oxford Independent Book Fair
Thanks to the success of the first Oxford Indie Book Fair there will be a second one - even better - on Saturday April 2 from 10.30- 4.30 The 45 exhibitors will include independent publishers such as Claret Press,
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02, 2022
The Food of Love. Cooking up a Life …coming soon
Gosh .. Claret Press has started to promote my memoir! https://www.claretpress.com/ Do you like the cover? Food_of_Love_Cover_ Writing the lives of the 118 Oxford castaways and the fictional memoir of artist Little Winter in Brushstrokes in Time made me start
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01, 2022
Make the Headington Shark a heritage site !
You have one day left to support the proposal to make the Headington Shark a heritage site. The Shark is mostly associated with the owner of the house Bill Heine seen in this pic. Bill was my friend but the
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01, 2022
Sudeep Sen in Oxford
While he was in Oxford, I was privileged to host the acclaimed Indian poet Sudeep Sen. He is in the UK to promote his latest anthology Anthropocene. It is endorsed by one of the world authors that I most admire-Amitav
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01, 2022
An injection of hope thanks to Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama.
Have you watched this inspirational film with the late Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama? Most of it was filmed Dharamsala. Given the rise of fascism targeting hatred of religious minorities in India it could be good to get