Four brilliant collections, featuring short stories from a star-studded cast of writers including Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Faulks, Helen Fielding, William Boyd, John le Carré, Ian Rankin and Jeanettte Winterson.
The books – and stories – are themed very loosely on the four elements and have Oxfam afterwords highlighting different aspects of our work: EARTH (from land rights to farming): AIR (combating climate change), FIRE (campaigning for arms control) and WATER (safe water and sanitation).
This exciting project has been delivered in partnership with Profile Books and Hay Festival, together with thirty-eight British- and Irish-based writers, each of whom have generously donated their time and words for free to Oxfam.
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The books retail for £5 each - £3.50 of which goes towards funding Oxfam's work fighting poverty and suffering around the world. So you can enjoy reading and fighting poverty too!
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Ox-Tales: The Signed Limited Edition Box Set
Coming soon, the Ox-Tales box set - a unique limited edition of the four books signed by all thirty-eight authors. The box set has been produced in a once-only run of 150 numbered copies, printed on fine art paper, beautifully bound in cloth and board covers, and with the four books housed in a special solander box.
The box sets will be available to buy through Oxfam's online shop in Spring 2010. All profits will go to fund Oxfam's work
Reviews
You can hear Hari Kunzru and Giles Foden talking about Ox-Tales with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book, BBC Radio 4. The Observer, The Sunday Times, Independent, Independent on Sunday
Readings by the authors
Ox-Tales Authors include:
Kate Atkinson, Beryl Bainbridge, William Boyd, Jonathan Buckley, Jonathan Coe, Geoff Dyer, Michel Faber, Sebastian Faulks, Helen Fielding, Giles Foden, Esther Freud, Xialou Guo, Mark Haddon, Zoë Heller, Victoria Hislop, A.L. Kennedy, Hari Kunzru, Hanif Kureishi, John le Carré, Marina Lewycka, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Morpurgo, David Park, DBC Pierre, Ian Rankin, Vikram Seth, Nicholas Shakespeare, Kamila Shamsie, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Ali Smith, William Sutcliffe, Rose Tremain, Joanna Trollope, Louise Welsh, and Jeanette Winterson.
The Ox-Tales collection will be available at Oxfam shops and all good bookstores across the UK from 4 July
