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SUMMARY:Charles Foster THE EDGES OF THE WORLD with Dan Kieran
DESCRIPTION:Writer\, traveller\, veterinarian\, taxidermist\, barrister and philosopher Charles Foster joins us talk about his latest book. \n\n\n\n\nThe Edges of the World \nWe tend to think that everything important comes from the centre: from big cities\, from established orthodoxies in the sciences and the arts\, from the Establishment in all its forms. We think this because the centre tells us it is so\, but it’s a lie. It is only at the edges that we think\, innovate and thrive. \nThis book travels to the frontiers of human culture and consciousness; to the edges of continents\, of evolution\, of artistic and political movements\, and life itself: from a rocky precipice in the Peloponnese where the first human set foot in Europe to an ancient Egyptian temple where monotheism was invented; from St Francis\, kissing lepers to the giant bird-eating mice of St Kilda. \nWhy do we stare at sunsets? Why do we celebrate birthdays and grieve for those who are gone? Why do all adventures begin when we leave and get lost? Who has the better view of reality – the Government or the dispossessed? \nAnd what happens when we live with the knowledge that we’re all teetering on the edge of the dark? \nCharles Foster \nCharles Foster is aNew York Times bestselling author whose work has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize\, shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing\, and won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology and the 30 Millions d’Amis Prize. He is a fellow of Exeter College\, University of Oxford\, and has particular passions for Greece\, waves\, the Upper Palaeolithic\, mountains and swifts. \nDan Kieran \nDan is the author and editor of fourteen books\, including the Sunday Times bestseller Crap Towns (the first viral internet phenomenon to turn into a bestselling book)\, The Idle Traveller (the bestselling Slow Travel: Die Kunst des Reisens in Germany)\, Three Men in a Float (the story of his journey across England in a 1957 electric milk float also recorded for BBC Radio 4) and Do Start: How to create and run a business (that doesn’t run you). A travel writer for the Guardian\, The Times and the Telegraph\, he has given talks on a range of subjects including publishing\, creative writing\, fundraising\, entrepreneurship and how to have ideas for places like The Idler\, The Do Lectures and The European Parliament.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/charles-foster-the-edges-of-the-world-with-dan-kieran/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Michael Robb and Evan Friss BOOK MAKERS AND BOOKSELLERS
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Michael Robb and Evan Friss as the discuss the bookshops and publishers of the UK and United States of America \n\n\n\n\nMichael Robb (UK) and Evan Friss (USA) will join up to discuss what the world of books looks like both here and abroad \nShelf Life \nThis engaging narrative unveils the resilience and innovation of key figures who have shaped the literary landscape\, from the pioneering days of William Caxton to the contemporary influence of Jeff Bezos. \nAs the narrative navigates the ever-evolving terrain of book retail\, it delves into the seismic changes of the past forty years and reflects on the current state of the industry\, as well as offering insights into the challenges and future opportunities that lie ahead for publishing and bookselling in the twenty-first century. \nA must-read for anyone passionate about books\, bookshops and the enduring legacy of the written word. \nMichael Robb \nMichael Robb\, a stalwart figure in the bookselling and publishing arena\, has experienced first-hand the shifting tides of this well-loved industry over the past 40 years. From successfully running an independent bookshop in Essex for two decades\, to transitioning into the publishing domain\, his broad network within the book trade gives him a unique insight to the world of books. \nThe Bookshop \nEvan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories\, archival collections\, municipal records\, diaries\, letters\, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores\, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature\, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life-and why we still need them. \nEvan Friss \nEvan Friss is a professor of history at James Madison University and the author of two other books: The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s and On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City. He lives with his wife (a bookseller) and two children (occasional booksellers) in Harrisonburg\, Virginia.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/michael-robb-and-evan-friss-book-makers-and-booksellers/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Turi Munthe WHY WE THINK WHAT WE THINK with Nigel Warburton
DESCRIPTION:This eye-opening book takes us through biology\, geography\, history\, psychology and much more to uncover the hidden DNA of our opinions. \n\n\n\n\nWhy We Think What We Think \nWithout knowing it\, almost all our opinions – whether we believe in God or in ghosts\, our views on sex or animal rights or immigration\, our basic sense of what’s right – are shaped by an astounding web of hidden forces. The age-old idea that our views are forged by reason and evidence alone is wrong: we are influenced by everything from the quirks of distant history\, through the lines of our genetic code\, to the geology of where we grew up. \nThis eye-opening book takes us through culture\, biology\, geography\, history\, psychology and much more to uncover the hidden DNA of our opinions. \nPacked with surprising stories and counterintuitive discoveries\, Why We Think What We Think does more than reveal how our beliefs are formed. By showing where our beliefs really come from\, it invites us to step outside our own assumptions – and learn how to think more clearly\, and more generously\, about the world we all share. \nTuri Munthe \nTuri Munthe is a journalist and policy analyst turned media entrepreneur\, who has written for theEconomist\, theGuardian and the TLS and appeared on the BBC\, CNN and Fox News. He founded Demotix\, the largest network of photojournalists in the world\, and Parlia\, an encyclopaedia of opinion.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/turi-munthe-why-we-think-what-we-think-with-nigel-warburton/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:WHITE MOSS A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on our recent book of the month\, White Moss\, with Irina Sadovina (translator) Tamar Koplatadze and Oliver Ready \n\n\n\n\nWhite Moss \nProviding rare\, direct insight into the beauties and struggles of the Indigenous reindeer-herding Nenets community of the Russian north\, White Moss tells a piercingly moving coming-of-age story of the conflict between individual dreams and collective life. \nOn the eve of his wedding\, young Alyoshka pines for an earlier love. Ilne chose to leave the nomadic Nenets community behind 7 years before\, moving to the city and taking his heart with her. As the seasons have passed and his mother has grown older\, Alyoshka has been under increasing pressure to marry and fully embrace the Nenets’ age-old customs of home and family. Unwilling to give up his hope for another life\, the young man struggles against everything he has been taught to accept\, while other painful transitions shake the stability of the small camp and minor human tragedies play out against the cold expanse of the tundra. \nWith bursts of lyricism and a Chekhovian eye for human frailty\, Anna Nerkagi crafts a multi-voiced drama of tradition and change within her Indigenous community. \nIrina Sadovina \nIrina Sadovina translates literature from Russian and Mari. Her translations and writing appeared in publications like Prototype\, Meniscus\, Calvert Journal\, and ellipse. She received the 2021 Australasian Association of Writing Programs Translation Prize and was a 2021-2022 National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentee. \nTamar Koplatadze \nDr Koplatadze is one of the first proponents and leading theorists of Post-Soviet Postcolonial Studies. Her specialism covers the literature and culture of Russia\, the Caucasus and Central Asia from the 19th century to the present day. \nDr Koplatadze’s monograph Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature (OUP) is the first book to examine post-Soviet literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia\, and to employ postcolonial methodology for this enquiry. Her current book project\, Post-Soviet Ecopoetics\, is the first comparative study of post-Soviet ecocritical literature and film\, including from Siberia\, the Caucasus and Central Asia. \nOliver Ready \nDr Oliver Ready is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Russian specialising in recent and nineteenth-century literature. He has worked for several years as a departmental lecturer for the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages\, teaching undergraduates and postgraduates across the University.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/white-moss-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Katja Hoyer WEIMAR
DESCRIPTION:From bestselling historian Katja Hoyer comes a gripping story of life during the rise and reign of Hitler and the people of Weimar. \n\n\n\n\nWeimar : Life on the Edge of Catastrophe \nWeimar looms large in German history: a crucible of democracy and dictatorship. This ancient town nestled in the heart of the country was home to some of Europe’s greatest thinkers\, Goethe and Schiller\, Liszt and Nietzsche among them. It gave its name to the ambitious Weimar Republic crafted in the aftermath of the First World War. But it was also where fascism took hold. Where Bauhaus architects first experimented with new ways of living\, Buchenwald was dug out of a beech forest. \nWeimar shows us a town and its people on the edge of catastrophe. Drawing on a wealth of new archival research\, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer takes us from 1919 to 1939 as she tells the stories of the men and women who lived through the new republic and Hitler’s regime. We encounter a vividly drawn cast of characters\, from bookbinder Carl Weirich and hotel owners Rosa and Arthur Schmidt\, to Friedrich Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth. Here are fascists and socialists\, artists and workers\, politicians and citizens\, who\, as the events of history swept them up\, became witnesses\, perpetrators\, victims and bystanders. \nAn unforgettable picture of lives and choices in extraordinary circumstances\, Weimar takes us deep into the heart of the storm – to the town that dreamt of a better world\, and woke up to tyranny. \nKatja Hoyer \nKatja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her debut book Blood and Iron was well received by academics and critics. Her second book Beyond the Wall was a Sunday Times bestseller and long-listed for the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize. \nKatja is currently a columnist for the Berliner Zeitung. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg\, The Spectator\, The Daily Telegraph and UnHerd and has also worked as a columnist for The Washington Post. She occasionally writes for a range of other newspapers such as The Financial Times\, The Times\, The Guardian and Die Welt on current political affairs in Germany and Europe as well as history and books.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/katja-hoyer-weimar/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Geoff Andrews RADICALS with Tom Buchanan
DESCRIPTION:On the 100th anniversary of the General Strike\, Geoff Andrews joins us to talk about his new book\, ‘Radicals’ with Tom Buchanan.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/geoff-andrews-radicals-with-tom-buchanan/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Elinor Cleghorn A WOMAN'S WORK
DESCRIPTION:A Woman’s Work is a radical and inspiring new history of mothering\, and a timely reminder that the fight for reproductive freedom isn’t over \n\n\n\n\nA Woman’s Work \nMothers make history. For centuries\, motherhood has sparked social and political change. Yet the acts of growing\, birthing and nurturing children – and the power they hold – have been pushed to the margins\, overlooked in our narratives of the past. \nIn A Woman’s Work\, Elinor Cleghorn reveals the mothers\, othermothers\, midwives\, activists\, and community leaders who have shaped this extraordinary history. They include Hildegard of Bingen\, the medieval nun and mystic with pioneering views about the maternal body; Mary Wollstonecraft\, who laid the intellectual groundwork to release motherhood from male control; and Sojourner Truth\, who drew attention to the abhorrent treatment of mothers under chattel slavery. \nBeginning in the ancient world\, we learn how in each era\, the patriarchy constructed its own idealised notion of motherhood – from the misogynistic dogma of the early church and the stigmatisation of single mothers in 17th century England all the way through to the post-war myth of the perfectly contented housewife. But we also learn how mothers of all classes and circumstances fought back\, and lobbied to be valued\, respected and supported – not as reproductive vessels\, but as people. \nElinor Cleghorn \nDr Elinor Cleghorn has a background in feminist visual culture and history\, and her critical writing has been published in several academic journals including Screen. After receiving her PhD in 2012\, Elinor spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Ruskin School\, University of Oxford\, working on an interdisciplinary medical humanities project. She has given talks and lectures at the British Film Institute\, where she has been a regular contributor to their education programme\, Tate Modern\, and ICA London\, and she has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 discussion show The Forum. In 2017\, she was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Editions essay prize. She now works as a freelance writer and researcher. Her non-fiction debut\, Unwell Women\, was published in June 2021.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/elinor-cleghorn-a-womans-work/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Lily Dunn INTO BEING with Richard Beard
DESCRIPTION:Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Lily will be in conversation with author Richard Beard. \n\n\n\n\nInto Being \nThe acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new\, transformative kind of memoir. Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Drawing on her experience as a memoirist and a teacher of creative writing\, Lily Dunn presents the ground-breaking idea that the craft of memoir itself can offer a form of transformation. Dunn demystifies the memoirist’s art\, helping readers to find meaning in raw experience and elevate the personal to the universal. She considers compelling questions\, from why our memories give greater significance to certain events to how we can write honestly without intruding too far into the lives of our loved ones. She also explores how writers are extending the memoir form to create something hybrid\, playful and subversive. In an age of social media\, filled with confessions\, re-inventions and distortions of the self\, the question of what it means to be an individual is more urgent than ever. Into being shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery – one that can be shared with the whole world. \nLily Dunn \nDr Lily Dunn is an author\, mentor and academic. Her debut nonfiction\, Sins of My Father: A Daughter\, A Cult\, A Wild Unravelling\, a memoir about the legacy of her father’s addictions was on of The Spectator‘s and The Guardian‘s best nonfiction books of 2022. Her latest book: Into Being: The radical craft of memoir and its power to transform is a hybrid memoir craft book. She is also author of a work of fiction\, Shadowing the Sun. \nRichard Beard \nRichard Beard’s six novels include Lazarus is Dead\, Dry Bones and Damascus\, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In the UK he has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. His novel Acts of the Assassins was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize\, for books that ‘extend the possibilities of the novel form’. He is also the author of five works of narrative non-fiction\, including his rugby memoir Muddied Oafs. The Day That Went Missing was shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and won the 2018 PEN Ackerley Award for literary autobiography. In the US the book was a National Book Critics Circle finalist. His latest memoir/polemic is Sad Little Men\, about private schools in Britain\, which was a book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement and the Observer. His new project is the memoir platform The Universal Turing Machine.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/lily-dunn-into-being-with-richard-beard/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Sara Wheeler JAN MORRIS : A LIFE
DESCRIPTION:Sara Wheeler introduces her captivating new biography of the legendary writer Jan Morris\, published on the centenary of Morris’s birth. \n\n\n\n\nJan Morris : A Life \nShe was the twentieth century. Who wouldn’t want to write her biography? \nWhen Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to London\, she became the most famous journalist in the world. So began a glittering career covering the Eichmann trial\, interviewing Che Guevara and scooping the story of Suez collusion. Morris transitioned in the early seventies and documented the experience in Conundrum. She was a pioneer and her books\, including Venice and the Pax Britannica trilogy\, have inspired readers across the globe. \nHere\, renowned travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler uncovers the complexity of this twentieth-century icon to reveal a mosaic of contradictions. Morris’s work conjured the spirit of place\, yet her late masterpiece Trieste celebrates ‘the meaning of nowhere’; she was a Welsh nationalist who wasn’t Welsh; a preacher of kindness with a cruel side. This is a portrait of an astonishing life\, and a scintillating story of longing\, travel and never reaching home. \n‘A breathtakingly good read. Coherent\, comprehensive and compulsive.’ MICHAEL PALIN‘ \nA superb achievement . . . It is hard to imagine this biography will ever be superseded.’ COLIN THUBRON \n‘Wonderful – witty . . . worthy of its subject.’ PAUL THEROUX \n‘A masterly biography.’ SIMON JENKINS \nSara Wheeler \nSara Wheeler is a highly acclaimed British writer\, who is perhaps best known for her accounts of polar regions and her international best-seller Terra Incognita. She has also written about the US\, Russia and other countries\, and has most recently published Glowing Still\, a memoir of her life on the road. The authorised biography of Jan Morris is her latest book.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/sara-wheeler-jan-morris-a-life/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Nicola Kelly ANYWHERE BUT HERE with Rachel Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Anywhere But Here is a powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system and how it fails us all. \n\n\n\n\nAnywhere But Here \nEach year tens of thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Channel in small boats hoping to find safety in Britain. Yet the very system designed to protect them has all but collapsed. \nWith unique and unparalleled access\, award-winning journalist and former Home Office insider Nicola Kelly takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. \nWe follow the under-resourced coastguard overseeing search and rescue operations in the Channel. The decision-makers hired from McDonald’s and Aldi to conduct ‘life and death’ asylum interviews. The immigration barristers securing last-minute reprieves for deportees who narrowly escaped death. And we step inside the Home Office corridors as ministers and advisors respond to emerging crises and scandals\, from Windrush to the Rwanda plan. \nAt its heart are the stories of war-torn arrivals\, lone teenagers and trafficked women attempting to settle in cities\, towns and villages across the UK. We travel to meet them\, exploring where they have fled from and why\, and the response of local communities to their new neighbours. \nSituated on the beaches and the ports\, in the hotels\, the courtrooms and the detention centres where the futures of those affected unfold\, this is a searing investigation into one of the most urgent issues and shocking injustices of our time. \nNicola Kelly \nNicola Kelly is an award-winning journalist and writer focused on UK immigration and asylum. \nHer reporting regularly appears in The Guardian\, The Observer\, The Independent\, New Statesman\, Byline Times and elsewhere. \nBefore moving into journalism\, she was a diplomat\, posted to Brussels and Istanbul\, with stints in Beirut and Rome and secondments to the No 10 Press Office and the Home Office. \nHer reporting has been referenced in several legal challenges against Conservative Home Secretaries\, as well as submissions and human rights reports. In October 2023\, she gave evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the government’s failed Afghan resettlement schemes\, which was drawn upon in the Afghanistan Withdrawal Inquiry and in questioning to Foreign Office Minister Lord Ahmad. \nIn 2024 Nicola won the News Media Award at the Scottish Media Awards and she received a special mention at the One World Media Awards for International Journalist of the Year. She also won Best News Story and Best Feature at the Freelance Journalism Awards the same year. In 2022\, she was highly commended for Campaigning Journalist of the Year and shortlisted for Freelance Journalist of the Year at the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards. \nNicola regularly features on the BBC\, LBC and elsewhere as a media commentator on UK asylum issues\, as well as panel discussions\, podcasts\, journalism conferences and guest lectures at universities across the UK. She is a mentor at the Refugee Journalism Project\, a Fellow of the International Women’s Media Foundation and the European Journalism Fund and a member of both the Frontline Freelance Register and the NUJ. \nRachel Clarke \nDr Rachel Clarke is an NHS palliative care doctor\, former television journalist and the award-winning author of four Sunday Times bestselling books including THE STORY OF A HEART (winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction & shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize)\, DEAR LIFE (shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award & longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize) and BREATHTAKING (adapted into a major television series broadcast by ITVX in 2024 & nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Best Limited Series 2025). \nRachel writes for the Guardian\, Sunday Times\, New Statesman and Lancet among others. Her television and radio appearances include BBC Question Time\, BBC Newsnight\, Channel 4 News and BBC Woman’s Hour.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/nicola-kelly-anywhere-but-here-with-rachel-clarke/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Luke Berryman RESISTING NAZISM
DESCRIPTION:Nazism has always faced resistance. This book paints a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations. \n\n\n\n\nResisting Nazism \nNazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s\, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s\, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories\, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations. \nBuilt on original interviews with the people involved\, their families\, and their colleagues\, as well as deep research\, this book is a response to far-right populist threats and antisemitism that increasingly resemble the Nazi past. Each of its twelve chapters tells a different story of resistance. Sometimes\, these stories involve incredible daring and enormous risk – but they also show that resistance can begin with something as simple as writing your ideas down or showing solidarity with the oppressed. \nLuke Berryman \nLuke Berryman is the Founder and CEO of The Ninth Candle\, a Chicago-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that helps schools to improve Holocaust education. They run educational programs for students and professional development programs for teachers\, all free of charge. Luke has written about the Holocaust\, and antisemitism for newspapers including The Chicago Tribune\, USA Today\, The New York Daily News\, and others\, and for pedagogy journals like Education Week and Chalkbeat.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/luke-berryman-resisting-nazism/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Jill Dawson PIXIE with Beverley Wass
DESCRIPTION:Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson tells the true story of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith. \n\n\n\n\nPixie \nIt’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve\, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training\, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her. \nAfter the deaths of her beloved mother and her troubled but well-intentioned father\, Pixie finds herself in the complex\, political world of fin-de-siècle art\, trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for herself in life. Across Jamaica\, Devon\, London and Brooklyn\, Pixie is a novel of epic proportions\, a tale of the twists and turns\, séances and secrets\, successes and devastation\, of one young woman’s talent\, grit and determination. \nIn Pixie\, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith\, artist\, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck\, in arrestingly vivid detail\, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable\, but has\, until now\, eluded popular imagination. \nJill Dawson \nJill is the author of eleven novels\, one poetry collection and the editor of six anthologies of poetry and stories. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a Costa Judge\, and taught creative writing in many different settings. \n£6 – £16.99
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/jill-dawson-pixie-with-beverley-wass/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260306T183000
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SUMMARY:Share this event  Sarah Wynn-Williams CARELESS PEOPLE with Stephanie Merritt
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Sarah Wynn-Williams at Blackwell’s Oxford in conversation with Stephanie Merritt. \n\n\n\n\nCareless People\nSarah Wynn-Williams’s Careless People was one of the non-fiction sensations of 2025. A hugely praised – and award winning – bestselling account of Sarah’s time as Global Policy Director at Facebook\, Meta secured a ruling against Sarah on publication day preventing her from promoting the book\, or indeed saying anything critical or ‘otherwise detrimental’ about Meta. \nDue to these ongoing legal restrictions\, Sarah is barred from speaking about her book or from saying anything negative about her former employer. Instead\, Sarah will join us to share her thoughts and invite engagement on a wider\, more urgent conversation: how did we lose control of the Internet\, and is it possible to reclaim it? From the decay of the online world to the new geopolitics of AI\, as power shifts from governments to platforms\, this is a rare chance to hear from a woman who has stood at the nexus of global diplomacy and big-tech power—and lived to share the tale at great personal cost. \nSarah Wynn-Williams \nSarah Wynn-Williams is a former New Zealand diplomat and international lawyer. She joined Facebook after pitching a job and worked there for many years\, ultimately becoming director of global public policy. After leaving the company\, she has continued to work on tech policy\, including artificial intelligence. \nStephanie Merritt \nStephanie Merritt began reviewing books for national newspapers while she was reading English literature at Queens’ College\, Cambridge and after graduating went on to become Deputy Literary Editor of the Observer in 1998. Her first novel\, Gaveston\, was published by Faber & Faber in 2002 and won a Betty Trask award. \nShe continues to work as a feature writer and critic for the Guardian and the Observer and from 2007-2008 she curated and produced the Talks and Debates programme on issues in contemporary arts and politics at London’s Soho Theatre. She has appeared as a panellist on various Radio 4 shows and on BBC2’s Newsnight Review\, and is a regular chair and presenter at the Hay Festival and the National Theatre.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/share-this-event-sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-with-stephanie-merritt/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:PUTTING PHILOSOPHY ON THE TELLY with Andy West
DESCRIPTION:PUTTING PHILOSOPHY ON THE TELLY with Andy West\nWhen: Sat\, Feb 21 from 11am to 12pm \nWhere: Blackwells Bookshop \nGo online to reserve a spot today! \n  \nAndy West\, author of ‘The Life Inside‘ takes part – Philosophy in the Bookshop – series to discuss the TV adaptation of his memoir \nSOON TO BE A BBC DRAMA\, ‘WAITING FOR THE OUT’ SCREENS IN JANUARY \nAndy West teaches philosophy in prisons. Every time he steps behind bars\, he also confronts his inherited shame: his father\, uncle and brother all spent time inside. While Andy has built a different life for himself\, he still fears that their fate will also be his. \nNow a six-part BBC Drama\,’Waiting for the out’\, The Life Inside is an elegantly written and unforgettable memoir. Through exquisite storytelling and gentle philosophical questioning\, it offers a new insight into our stretched justice system\, our failing prisons and the complex lives being lived inside.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/putting-philosophy-on-the-telly-with-andy-west/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T183000
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SUMMARY:Alexander Larman LAZARUS with Philip Clark
DESCRIPTION:To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the death of Davis Bowie\, Alexander Larman discusses his biography\, Lazarus with Philip Clark \n\n\n\n\nLazarus : The Second Coming of David Bowie \nWhen David Bowie died on 10 January 2016\, aged 69\, his death was greeted with the greatest display of public mourning since Princess Diana three decades before. \nTwenty-five years before\, Bowie appeared to be washed up. His Eighties career had been a slow descent into self-parody\, his attempts to diversify into hard rock with the had been disastrous\, and the art-rock music with which he had made his name was badly out of fashion. The Thin White Duke needed a miracle if he was not only going to be able to assume his rightful place at the top of the rock music firmament\, but even to continue his career. And a miracle – a resurrection from the dead – is precisely what happened. \nLazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie is the first biography of Bowie that tells the full and candid story of what happened in between those two apparently unbridgeable points. With new and exclusive interviews with the musicians\, filmmakers and cultural figures who worked with and befriended Bowie throughout this period\, Lazarus is the definitive account of the previously overlooked and fascinating latter half of a great and distinguished career. A career that climaxed with his final masterpiece\, Blackstar\, and the unprecedented theatrical flourish of his departure from the stage as he passed into legend. \nAlexander Larman \nAlexander Larman is the author of several historical and biographical titles. His most recent book\, Power and Glory\, the third and final instalment in his Windsors trilogy\, following The Crown in Crisis and The Windsors at War\, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2024. His first book\, Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot\, 2nd Earl of Rochester\, was published by Head of Zeus in 2014\, and his second\, Restoration\, a social history of the year 1666\, was published in April 2016. His third\, Byron’s Women\, came out in September 2016 and was shortlisted for the Elma Dangerfield Prize. \nHe is books editor of The Spectator’sworld edition and is a contributing editor to The Criticmagazine. He has a monthly book review column in The Observer and writes regularly about literature and the arts for publications including Prospect\, The Times\, Engelsberg Ideas and the Daily Telegraph. \nPhilip Clark \nPhilip Clark is a music journalist who has written about classical music\, modern composition\, jazz\, free improvisation and rock music for many leading publications including The Wire\, Gramophone\, Classic FM Magazine\, MOJO\, Jazzwise\, The Guardian\, Financial Times\, London Review of Books\, Prospect and New York Review of Books. \n\n£6 – £25
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/alexander-larman-lazarus-with-philip-clark/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260210T173000
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SUMMARY:Danny Bate WHY Q NEEDS U with Susie Dent
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\nTV personality and ‘Countdown Queen’\, Susie Dent discusses ‘Why Q Needs U’ with fellow linguist\, writer and broadcaster\, Danny Bate \n\n\n\n\nWhy Q Needs U \nEvery letter you’re reading right now has a fascinating story to tell\, having been on a long linguistic\, historical\, political and social journey. \nIn Why Q Needs U\, linguistic expert Danny Bate takes readers on a fascinating odyssey through the English alphabet\, diving into history\, archaeology\, politics and linguistics to discover where we get our writing from. Sharing fun facts and revealing the alphabet’s hidden mechanisms\, he explains where we get our letters from and why the English language uses them so strangely. \nExplaining – and defending – the peculiar way English today uses our ancient letters\, Bate’s witty and entertaining book will help readers spot connections in languages across the world and inspire a newfound sense of wonder for the letters we use every day. \nDanny Bate \nDanny Bate is a linguist\, writer\, broadcaster and podcaster who is fascinated by the study of historical languages and etymology. He took his BA and MPhil degrees from the University of York and the University of Cambridge respectively\, and his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. \nSusie Dent \nSusie Dent is an English lexicographer\, etymologist and media personality. She has appeared in “Dictionary Corner” on the Channel 4 game show Countdown since 1992. She also appears on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown\, a post-watershed comedy version of the show.
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/danny-bate-why-q-needs-u-with-susie-dent/
LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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