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Sophie Bowell

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T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

Rare copy of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land among Oxfam finds to go under the hammer

First UK edition of Eliot's famous poem expected to fetch up to £3,000 at auction A rare first UK edition of The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot will be auctioned on 25 June at Bonhams after...

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Kevin Powers, winner of the Oxfam Emerging Writer Prize

Kevin Powers wins Oxfam Emerging Writer Prize at Hay Festival

The winner of Oxfam's Emerging Writer Prize was today announced as author Kevin Powers at the Hay Festival 2013. Launched in 2009, the Oxfam prize is awarded annually to an up-and-coming writer...

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Welsh mum stars in Oxfam fundraising campaign to show supporters how donations are spent

Oxfam is today launching the latest phase of its groundbreaking fundraising campaign 'See For Yourself', starring mum-of-five, Abbie Viveash (48) from South Wales. The campaign aims to show...

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The aMAZEme book maze at London's Southbank Centre

Artists create giant book maze from Oxfam's donated books

A vast labyrinth of 250,000 books, entitled aMAZEme, has been installed on The Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall, London between 31 July - 25 August, as part of Southbank Centre's...

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Former nurse and mum-of-five travels to Africa to see for herself how donations to Oxfam are spent

Abbie Viveash, from Cwmbran, South Wales has been chosen, after a UK-wide search, to see first-hand how money donated to Oxfam is spent when she visits one of the charity's projects in Malawi,...

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Dan Brown and Stieg Larsson top Oxfam second hand book chart

Bestselling author Dan Brown has topped Oxfam's 'most donated' list for the fourth year in a row. Thriller and crime writers dominate the annual list from the charity's secondhand...

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First edition of Samuel Beckett's Murphy

First edition of Samuel Beckett’s Murphy sells for £12,000 at Oxfam’s book auction

A rare first edition of Samuel Beckett's Murphy has sold for a massive £12,000, doubling its estimate and raising vital funds for Oxfam at the charity's annual Bonhams book auction. Murphy...

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