Sadly 10 years after writing to The Independent the word ‘honour’ is still used to describe brutal murders.
Today, Claret Press sent me the press release for my memoir Food of Love – cooking up a life across gender, class and race. It is hard to believe that the comments of the distinguished people who have endorsed it,
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
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
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
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
How we named the Jam Factory One of the books I bought at the Oxford Indie Book Fair is Oxford Zz to AA written with a gentle humour by Richard O. Smith and illustrated with bold exaggeration by Korky Paul.
The FIRST FREE Oxford Independent Book Fair hopes to revive the early days of the Oxford Literary Festival when local as well as international authors could be heard .(See below about who is coming) .On Nov 6, exhibitors include
The memorial concert for the wonderful musician and teacher, Trevor Cowlett took place yesterday in Oxford. Trevor founded Kennington(Oxford) and District United Choirs in 1973. All their concerts were for charity and, every year, one was for KOA which I
I’ve had a great time as editor of the fifth Oxford Indie Magazine. My theme was appropriately for me An International edition for an International city I included writers born in Africa, Asia and South America as well as in
Published in The Oxford Times on Thursday March 3 2016 Alison Boulton, in her feature Radical Approach to Terror, interviewed Professor Roger Griffin of Oxford Brookes University ahead of his lecture on March 16. Researching the background to my novel