What starts as the realistic tale of a charming provincial town develops into a richly detailed political novel in a fantastic setting
she retells some old stories and conjures up some new ones to make sense of the relationship between painful death and bloody birth
socially-engaged young people
rather it is women asserting and presenting their work in their very proud fashion
won an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Actor
Real Oxford Hannah Lowe What starts as the realisticOxford, city of dreaming spires, bicycles, Inspector Morse, tourists, gentility. Or perhaps a less familiar place? Jericho, once seedy backstreets with Oxfords main porn cinema and an astonishing concentration of pubs, now mythologised by Philip Pullman and gentrified beyond the wildest imaginings of the college groundsmen and porters for whom it was designed. Cowley Road, the ethnic mix of restaurants, the core of Labour voting Oxford East ward, and