The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Sean McGahey

Saturday 20th to Sunday 28th March 2010
 
With over 250 events taking place over eight days at Christ Church, Corpus Christi, the Sheldonian Theatre, The Bodleian Library, and other venues, the 2010 festival promises to be one of the best ever.  Debates, discussions, talks, readings, literary lunches and dinners, as well as programmes in creative writing [...]

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Moving Things

Monday, February 8th, 2010 by Stephen OToole

3 Benalder Street
 
My bedroom’s tiny. It’s three bicycles in length and one and a half bicycles in width. I don’t own a bicycle. I don’t have the space for it.
 
The bedroom isn’t big enough for another person to stand in, unless I’m being intimate with that person. But I can’t be intimate with that person, [...]

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Inner-City Blues

Thursday, November 26th, 2009 by Norman Samuda-Smith

Inner-City Blues is based within the back-drop of inner-city Small Heath Birmingham during the mid 1970’s and is the long-awaited sequel to Norman Samuda-Smith’s ground breaking first novel Bad Friday. 
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When Peter is brutally assaulted after leaving a ‘blues party’ in the early hours of Sunday morning, robbed of his hustling money, face down, bleeding and motionless, the attack [...]

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