Nasio Trust founder Nancy Mudenyo Hunt and I wrote a novel together inspired by her childhood in Kenya and experience transforming the lives of disadvantaged teenagers by taking them to the Nasio projects in Musanda (w.Kenya). Not so Black and
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
The death of George Floyd is an image of brutality that appears on an American turn table which keeps going around and around for centuries. We have no reason in this country to be complacent but there are significant differences.
This film about the courageous Stars artists will come to the UK soon. I’m delighted because I wrote Brushstrokes in Time to tell the story of the Stars – it’s the ONLY novel inspired by them. I’ve had more good
Why the world should know about Ashoka . This blog is intended for those in the West, who know nothing about the man who founded the religion we know as Buddhism, established the world’s first international university, disapproved of
I have no idea who Mimi Ray is but I LOVE her review of Sculpting the Elephant on Goodreads. "How to set oneself free - sculpt the elephant! On the surface a love story set in both Oxford & India.
Ben Fox contacted me a few months after he started Shepherd.com. It’s a new and quirky search engine for books. He asked me to recommend books on China Since then I have written this one on Mixed Relationships because of