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Donna Leon - A Question of Belief

Commissario Brunetti is back and Donna Leon will be joining us to tell us all about his latest murder investigation. Always a popular vistor to our shop, this event with Donna Leon is sure to sell out quickly, so book your tickets now.

Tickets are FREE and available from the cash desk or by calling 01223 568568.

Richard Mabey - A Brush With Nature

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for "BBC Wildlife Magazine".

He will be joining us to talk about this definitive collection of writings which brings together his favourite pieces and presents a fascinating and inspiring view of the changing natural landscape in which we live.

Tickets are FREE and available from the cash desk or by calling 01223 568568.

Heffers Crime Reading Group, "Crimecrackers"

We meet on the third Wednesday of every month in Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street from 6.00pm until 7.00pm.

If you would like to join our Crimecrackers Reading Group, please contact Richard Reynolds in the Literature Department, Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street: Telephone: 01223 568521, email: literature@heffers.co.uk

Heffers Fiction Reading Group

The Heffers Fiction Reading Group meets in Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge on the last Wednesday of each month, 6.00pm until 7.00pm. Why not come along and enjoy a complimentary glass of wine and discuss some of the best books in contemporary fiction.

To join the reading group, please contact David Robinson on 01223 568522 or email: general@heffers.co.uk.

Forthcoming events to be announced. Please contact Cardiff University Union, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff for more details.

The Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2010

Blackwell is delighted to be a partner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2010, the newly established prize awared by the Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies (EJGS).

Founded in 2000 to celebrate Carlo Emilio Gadda, one of the literary greats of European Modernism, the EJGS has since grown into a formidable international network making Edinburgh the premier centre for the promotion of Gadda studies worldwide.

Building on the success of the EJGS formula, the Edinburgh Gadda Prize provides a platform to recognise scholarly brilliance in Gadda studies and further afield while also promoting young creative Scottish talent through a combination of scholarly and community projects.

Blackwell is proud to be one of the sponsors of the Giallo Giovane, the prize for the Best Junior Detective Story. Open to S2 and S3 pupils of Edinburgh's secondary schools, the best 10 entries will be invited to take part in the Blackwell Gadda Workshop. In 2010 the Workshop will be led by New York born film-director and writer Annie Griffin, with prominent Scottish actors as guest participants. The winner of the prize will be announced at the Prize Award Ceremony at the Caledonian Hall in the Royal Botanic Gardens on 19 June 2010.

More information on the Edinburgh Gadda Prize visit http://www.gaddaprize.ed.ac.uk.

To learn more about the Giallo Giovane Prize, please go to http://www.gaddaprize.ed.ac.uk/junior.php

Shona Maclean - A Game of Sorrows

It is 1628, and following his adventures in The Redemption of Alexander Seaton, Alexander is finally happily set in his life as a University teacher in Aberdeen. The arrival of a stranger brings with him an unwelcome reminder of the past - and a family he might prefer never to have met.

Placed under a poet's curse, Seaton's dead mother's family in Ireland is pleading for his help. Reluctantly answering the call, Alexander finds himself in a family riven by secrets, and soon becomes entangled with both sides of the conflict. Amidst fugitive priests, displaced poets, rebellious plotters and agents of the king, he soon sees his own life and liberty journey threatened.

Shona MacLean has a PhD in history from Aberdeen University, specialising in 16th and 17th century Scottish history. She was encouraged to writer by her late uncle, Alistair MacLean, and her first book , the historical thriller The Redemption of Alexander Seaton, was one of the bestselling Scottish books of 2008. A Game of Sorrows is the much-awaited sequel.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell, Edinburgh.

For more information please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk

Blackwell Book Group

Who says reading is a solitary pursuit? Not us! Come and join the Blackwell Book Group for lively, friendly book chatter. No previous experience required! We will meet monthly to discuss a wide range of books - fiction and non-fiction, classic and contemporary, prize-winners and cult heroes - in short, whatever you fancy!

Our current book
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt.

What is the book about?
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. Each family carries its own secrets. They grow up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, but as the sons rebel against their parents and the girls dream of independent futures, they are unaware that in the darkness ahead they will be betrayed unintentionally by the adults who love them. This is the children's book.

A.S. Byatt's much awaited latest book was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

We offer 10% discount on the current book to Bookgroup members so join today! Just email your name and address to events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk.

For April we will be reading God's Own Country by Ross Raisin.

Book Launch: Tartan Pimps by Mitch Miller, Johnny Rodgers And Owen Dudley Edwards

Racy, irreverent, informative, thoughtful and polemical, Tartan Pimps assesses Scottish political identity as it has been manifested in books over the last formative 40 years.

Mitch Miller lectures on film and media at Glasgow University and Edinburgh Art College. Johnny Rodger is a lecturer in History and Theory at Glasgow School of Art and is a regular broadcaster. Johnny and Mitch are the joint editors of The Drought, a quarterly Arts magazine published in Glasgow. Owen Dudley Edwards is the author of several books on a variety of subjects such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and PG Wodehouse and is Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell, Edinburgh.

For more information please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk

Ken Macleod - The Restoration Game

Join us to celebrate for the launch of Ken MacLeod's latest novel, The Restoration Game.

There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know - she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organisers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: a game inspired by The Krassniad, an epic folk tale concocted by Lucy's mother Amanda, who studied there in the 1980s. Lucy knows Amanda is a spook. She knows her great-grandmother Eugenie also visited the country in the '30s, and met the man who originally collected Krassnian folklore, and who perished in Stalin's terror. As Lucy digs up details about her birthplace to slot into the game, she finds the open secrets of her family's past, the darker secrets of Krassnia's past - and hints about the crucial role she is destined to play in The Restoration Game...

The Restoration Game is the compelling new near-future thriller from the award-winning author of The Execution Channel and The Night Sessions. Born on the Isle of Lewis, Ken MacLeod is one of Scotland's leading Science Fiction authors, a contemporary of Ian M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds and Charles Stross.

In the second part of the evening Ken MacLeod will be joined by a panel of fellow writers to discuss current issues in Science Fiction writing. So far confirmed for the panel are author Charlie Stross and author, editor and critic Andrew J. Wilson.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell, Edinburgh.

For more information please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk

Susan Fletcher - Corrag

The new novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers.

The Massacre of Glencoe happened at 5am on 13th February 1692 when thirty-eight members of the Macdonald clan were killed by soldiers who had enjoyed the clan's hospitality for the previous ten days. Many more died from exposure in the mountains.

Fifty miles to the south Corrag is condemned for her involvement in the Massacre. She is imprisoned, accused of witchcraft and murder, and awaits her death. The era of witch-hunts is coming to an end - but Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist and Jacobite, hears of the Massacre and, keen to publicise it, comes to the tollbooth to question her on the events of that night, and the weeks preceding it. Leslie seeks any information that will condemn the Protestant King William, rumoured to be involved in the massacre, and reinstate the Catholic James.

Corrag - alone and resentful - agrees to talk to him in an effort to clear her name and bring the guilty to justice, but also to have company in her last few days. As she tells a story that would begin one icy English Christmas eve and end with her imprisonment in the Scottish Highlands, Leslie's attachment to Corrag grows, and a friendship develops that will change both their lives.

Susan Fletcher was born in Birmingham in 1979. Her first novel Eve Green won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2004 and the Betty Trask Prize, followed by the equally acclaimed Oystercatchers in 2007.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell, Edinburgh.

For more information please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk

Stuart Mchardy - New History Of The Picts

When the Romans came north to what is now modern Scotland they encountered the fierce and proud warrior society known as the Picts, who despite their lack of discipline and arms, managed to prevent the undefeated Roman Army from conquering the northern part of Britain, just as they later repulsed the Angles and the Vikings.

A History of the Picts is an accessible true history of the Picts, who are so often misunderstood. New historical analysis, recently discovered evidence and an innovative Scottish perspective will expose long held assumptions about the native people. This controversial text contests that Scottish history has long since been dominated and distorted by misleading perspectives.

A History of the Picts will discredit the idea that the Picts were a strange historical anomaly and show them to be the descendants of the original inhabitants of the land, living in a series of loose tribal confederations gradually brought together by external forces to create one of the earliest states in Europe: a people, who after repulsing all invaders, merged with their cousins, the Scots of Argyll, to create modern Scotland. All of Scotland descends from the fierce Picts.

Stuart McHardy is a well established storyteller and author. A New History of the Picts is the latest in a long line of titles he has written on Scottish Folklore and History. He was Director of the Scots Language Resource Centre from 1993 to 1998 and is a founder member and past president of the Pictish Arts Society.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell, Edinburgh.

For more information please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8206 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk

Blackwell in partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University present PechaKucha Night

Blackwell are delighted to be involved in a series of lectures with the Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape and Design.

Devised and shared by Klein Dytham Architecture and the Igloo Student Society.

All events will be held in the 5th Floor studios, Arts Building, Leeds Met University, Broadcasting Place, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds. Featuring up to 12 speakers on a series of themes and subjects in the Arts, Design and Architecture.

28/01/10: Inspiration
18/02/10: Enthusiasm
29/04/10: Ingenuity
20/05/10: Future

All start at 6pm and are free to attend.

Blackwell in partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University present Design: Inside Out: Lecture forums 2010

Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape and Design

14/01/10: Rod Heyes of Caruso St John Architects & Prisca Thielmann of Maccreanor Lavington Architects
04/02/10: Stafford Critchlow of Wilkinson Eyre Architects & Matthew Hardcastle of Zaha Hadid Architects
15/04/10: Fred Scott of Greenwich University & Graeme Brooker of Manchester School of Art
22/04/10: Irena Bauman of Bauman Lyons Architects & Indy Johar of 00:/
06/05/10: Peter Higgins of Land Design Studio & David Littlefield, Educator and Author
03/06/10: Eelco Hooftman of Gross Max. & Professor Greg Keeffe of Leeds Metropolitan University

All events will be held in Lecture Theatre B, Leeds Met University, Rose Bowl, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds. All start at 6pm and are free to attend.

For further information and updates, see www.leedsmet.ac.uk/insideout

Blackwell in partnership with 4x4 Making Places Ltd present Our Green and Pleasant Land: Lecture forums 2010

Blackwell are delighted to be involved with the prestigious 4x4 lecture series, where four speakers talk on a different theme for four weeks in a row.

All events will be held in the Rose Bowl, Leeds Metropolitan University, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds from 5pm.

04/03/10: Governance:
Martin Wainwright (Guardian Northern news editor), Ruwan Aluvihare (Amsterdam City Council), Anna Minton (author of Ground Control) and John Thompson (Architect and founder of the Academy of Urbanism) have agreed to speak. Jan Anderson of Yorkshire Forward will chair the session.

11/03/10: Economy:
Eric Reynolds of Urban Space Management Ltd and Anamaria Wills of CIDA have agreed to speak. Paul Finch (CABE) has been invited to chair this session, together with Ann Pettifor from the New Economics Foundation.

18/03/10: Land:
Sheffield ex city architect Andy Beard has agreed to chair this session with artist Charles Quick and Ann Harding (Settle Hydro) confirmed. We have invited Glen Howells (Glen Howells Architecture) as the fourth speaker.

25/03/10: Nature:
Peter Murray, editor of the Architectural review, is confirmed for the role of chair, with Alan Simson (landscape architect from Leeds Metropolitan University), Richard Bickers (Arup) and Tristram Stuart (author of Waste). We have also invited architect Amanda Levette (Future Systems).

Please see www.makingplaces.com for further information and updates.

Forthcoming events to be announced. Please contact Blackwell University Bookshop, University of Liverpool, Alsop Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L3 5TX for more details.

Forthcoming events to be announced. Please contact Blackwell, 100 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0JG for more details.

Forthcoming events to be announced. Please contact Blackwell, The Precinct Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RN for more details.

Forthcoming events to be announced. Please contact Blackwell, 141 Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RS for more details.

Forthcoming events to be announced. Please contact Blackwell University Bookshop, Nottingham Trent University, Chaucer Building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 5LT for more details.

Anthony Julius - Trials of the Diaspora

Anthony Julius will be appearing at Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford to talk about his new book, Trials of the Diaspora.

This is a ground-breaking book that offers the first ever comprehensive history of anti-Semitism is England. Anthony Julius offers four distinct versions of anti-Semitism which he then proceeds to investigate in detail: anti-Semitism in medieval England; in literature; modern anti-Semitism from the mid 17th century onwards; and contemporary anti-Semitism which treats Zionism and the state of Israel as illegitimate Jewish enterprises.

"This is an essential history and it's fortunate it has been written by a man with the extraordinary fluency, staggering erudition, scholarly integrity, intellectual acumen and moral discernment of Anthony Julius." - Philip Roth

Tickets cost £2 and can be obtained by telephoning or visiting the Customer Service Department, Second Floor, Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford. Tel: 01865 333623.

Paul Torday and Jim Powell

Join us for this fabulous fiction event celebrating the publication of two new novels: The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday and The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell at Blackwell Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford on Wednesday 17th March at 7pm.

Both these novelists have come to writing as a second career - Paul Torday spent 30 years in engineering and industry, after which he began to pursue his lifelong ambitions to write. Jim Powell had a first career in advertising, and then started in pottery, as well as being active in politics, contesting the 1987 election and collaborating with Francis Pym on his book The Politics of Consent.

These writers will discuss coming to write fiction as men of experience and maturity, proving that it's never too late to write one's first novel!

Paul Torday is the celebrated writer who brought us Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce and The Girl on the Landing.

The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers is a modern-day Tale of Two Cities featuring Hector Chetwode-Talbot, who has a high-powered job in the city; and Charlie Summers, a fly-by-night entrepreneur whose latest scheme is to import Japanese dog food into the UK.

Jim Powell is a major new talent whose debut novel, The Breaking of Eggs is a work comparable in style and subject matter to the writing of Paul Torday.

The Breaking of Eggs tells the story of Feliks Zhukowski, a writer of travel guides whose career is in the doldrums. He decides to sell his business to an American publisher and go in search of his brother and mother whom he hasn't seen for decades. Thus begins a series of life-changing events

Tickets cost £2 and can be obtained by telephoning or visiting the Customer Service Department, Second Floor, Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford. Tel: 01865 333623.

The Readers' Voice

The Readers' Voice is delighted to announce that it will be running for a second year after the success of its first event. The 2010 Convention will follow its founding principles which are to focus on the interests of readers and reading groups as opposed to those of celebrity authors and publishers and to provide a unique space in which readers can meet and compare notes. The Convention has an extra international dimension this year, in that it is welcoming for the first time readers from Leiden, Holland, twinned with Oxford. There is a new programme of talks, debates and other events lead by speakers from up and down the country, whose expertise and passion for books promise to inspire even the most seasoned reader. 

The day will open with a variety of topics - some to entertain, some to give pause for thought- whilst in the afternoon participants are invited to brush up on their talents in a series of workshops ranging from tuition in performance reading, to discovering what's new in the classics, to learning about creative reading projects in the community. In addition there's an eye to the rapidly changing technology of reading and an opportunity to hear about the 21 century services about to come on-line in every library. 

We hope that participants will enjoy our Second Convention and that they will come away with some different ideas for sharing with others the benefits and pleasures of reading.

Please see our website for further details, along with a preview of the programme: TheReadersVoice.googlepages.com

Morning coffee and biscuits, afternoon tea and cakes included. Hot lunch provided in hall. (See website for details of lunch options.)   

Box Office @ Tickets Oxford*
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Writer in Residence at Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford: Roma Tearne

Roma Tearne, the acclaimed novelist and artist, will take up a week's residency at Blackwell Bookshop in Oxford from Monday 26th April to Saturday 1st May 2010.

Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan born writer and artist living and working in Britain. She is the author of four novels, Mosquito, Bone China, Brixton Beach and The Swimmer, all published by Harper Collins.

Brixton Beach is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. It has recently been selected as one of the ten titles for the inaugural series of Channel 4's The TV Book Club.

The Swimmer, published on 3rd May 2010, is a captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means. It tells the story of forty-three year old Ria, who is used to being alone and who has struggled to find love, until she discovers the swimmer, Ben, an illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka, with whom she enters an unconventional romance.

But what's the purpose of a residency at Blackwell Bookshop? In Roma's own words:

"I will be capturing the life of a large bookshop. The residency will take the form of an investigation into what it really is like to work with, and surrounded by, books. Books are magical things, material objects, receptacles of imagination and ideas, information and touchstones of feeling."

Roma Tearne & Ali Shaw: "Between The Lines" - A Writer's Residency

Roma Tearne is spending a week as the Writer in Residence at Blackwell Bookshop in April 2010. She will explore the fertile ground offered by this unique and world-famous bookshop - the environment, the ambience, the conversations and the goings-on that occur.

Ali Shaw, who joins Roma in this discussion, is the author of the highly acclaimed debut novel, The Girl With Glass Feet (nominated for the Costa First Book Prize). He used to work as a bookseller in the Economics and Business Department of Blackwell Bookshop and he subsequently worked at the Bodleian. He is currently writing his second novel.

Come along to this special event during which these two authors will talk about authors and readers, fact and fiction, and the nature of creativity itself.

In addition, find out why Roma was invited to take up her residency in the first place, what work has she produced and what have been the most memorable moments during the week.

Tickets cost £2 and can be obtained by telephoning or visiting the Customer Service Department, Second Floor, Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford. Tel: 01865 333623.

Visit the official Roma Tearne "Between the Lines" page at Blackwell Online here.

Mark Cocker - Peregrine

On Thursday 13th May, Mark Cocker will be talking about Peregrine, the legendary and ground-breaking work by J A Baker which was published in the 1960s and set a landmark not just for nature writing but for prose writing as a whole.

Such luminaries as Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Ted Hughes and Andrew Motion have cited Peregrine as one of the most important books in 20th Century nature writing, and bestselling author Mark Cocker has provided an introduction on the importance of Baker, his writings and the diaries – making this the essential volume of Baker's writings.

Born in 1926, very little is known of English author J A Baker beyond the fact that he lived in Essex and wrote two books about its wildlife, of which Peregrine, cited by many as a masterpiece in twentieth-century prose, is the most celebrated.

Despite the association of Peregrines with the wild outer reaches of the British Isles, Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about these mesmerising birds as they hunted the huge flocks of pigeons and waders with which they shared the same desolate landscape.

Adam Foulds & Roma Tearne

Join Adam Foulds and Roma Tearne for a discussion about their new novels.

Adam Foulds' The Quickening Maze is an intensely lyrical novel which depicts the historically accurate story of the incarceration of John Clare in an asylum in Epping Forest, following a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression. A young Alfred Tennyson, meanwhile, moves nearby and becomes entangled in the life of the asylum.

Roma Tearne's The Swimmer is a captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means. It tells the story of forty-three year old Ria, who is used to being alone and who has struggled to find love, until she discovers the swimmer, Ben, an illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka, with whom she enters an unconventional romance.

Tickets cost £2 and can be obtained by telephoning or visiting the Customer Service Department, Second Floor, Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford. Tel: 01865 333623.

Blackwell Customer Reading Group, Oxford

Do you like talking about books? Then join Books on the Broad Reading Group, winner of the Penguin / Orange Book Group of the year!

Future Choices include:

February: An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, to be discussed in March.

An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses but only one reveals the extraordinary truth.

March: Spies by Michael Frayn, to be discussed in April.

In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is very little evidence of the Second World War. But the two friends suspect that the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and underground laboratories. Then one day Keith announces an even more disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family, and the children find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for.

April: Rabbit, Run by John Updike, to be discussed in May.

Harry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with an alcoholic wife and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he flees from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life.

Our meetings take place on the first Monday of every month from 6.30pm to 8pm in Caffe Nero on the first floor of Blackwell Bookshop, 50 Broad Street, Oxford.

For further information, please contact the bookshop on tel: 01865 792792.

Are you interested in joining a Non-Fiction Reading Group?

We are starting up such a group - on a temporary basis - for those interested in reading and discussing books in the fields of Current Affairs, History, Politics, Philosophy and other subjects.

This group is designed to appeal to anyone who's generally interested in discussing the world and what goes on in it; we're not only looking for people who know the topics inside out!

The group will meet monthly: the first meeting will be in April and the book being discussed will be Straw Dogs by John Gray. This will be followed in May with Never Had It So Good by Dominic Sandbrook.

We have fifteen places, so if you would like to register, then please send an email to oxford@blackwell.co.uk with 'Non-Fiction Reading Group' in the title field. Please also include your full name and your daytime and evening telephone numbers, and we will contact you to confirm your registration.

Walking Tours of Oxford

Choose one of our three Walking Tours led by our experienced guide.

On Tuesdays at 2pm and Thursdays at 11am, join the Literary Tour and discover the University and city where such authors as Graham Greene, Dorothy L. Sayers and Lewis Carol lived and learned.

Wednesdays at 11:45am is the Inklings Tour, where fans of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien can see the favourite haunts of these two famous authors, as well as those of their fellow group members, including Charles Williams and Neville Coghill

On Fridays at 2pm , you can take the "Three Cs" Tour (Chapels, Churches and Cathedrals). Learn about the beautiful ecclesiastical buildings that grace the city, and the famous people who have visited them.

Tickets are £7 for Adults, £6.50 for Students and those over 55. For the Three "C's" Tour, £9 Adults, £8 Students and those over 55.

Tours commence from our Oxford Shop, 53 Broad Street, Oxford. OX1 3BQ. All tours last an hour and a half.

To book, call 01865-333606 or email oxford@blackwell.co.uk. (Booking recommended).

Tours run from Tuesday 13 April until Friday 29 October 2010 inclusive.

Forthcoming events to be announced. Please contact Blackwell's University Bookshop Hallam, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, 1 Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 2LW for more details.