Real Oxford Hannah Lowe The highlight of her year

The highlight of her year is a summer visit to the remote village home of her mother’s childhood friend

with this book Davis creates her own map to navigate the wild landscape

won an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Actor

she retells some old stories and conjures up some new ones to make sense of the relationship between painful death and bloody birth

What starts as the realistic tale of a charming provincial town develops into a richly detailed political novel in a fantastic setting

Real Oxford Hannah Lowe The highlight of her yearOxford, 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