Not far from The Theatre at Headington is a house named "The Kilns", where the academic and writer C.S. Lewis once lived. In 1942, a young girl named June Flewett was evacuated there and became the ...

What is an ex-Tory minister to do? Well, he could become Chancellor of Oxford University like Chris Patten, perhaps achieve celebrity like Neil Hamilton, or he could repent - like Jonathan Aitkin. ...

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is not in Ian McEwan's proposed canon of science writing. This is unsurprising - can you really imagine McEwan's deathly prose being inspired by an author who was so ...

There a few scenes that the writers of The Bourne Identity really need to tweak if they want to create the true successor to that other JB, James Bond. They just haven't quite adapted the original ...

They are a nice bunch at Saffron, very nice, and you will be feel loved the moment that they offer to take your coat from you. The white interior is not quite as warm as the welcome, but it evokes ...

It isn't widely known, but Jane Austen was actually an American. The confusion over her nationality arose when an early biographer missed the "New" off "New England" when noting the place of her ...