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Cover Love: Ox-Tales collection from Profile Books
Published this week (July 4th), the four volume Ox-Tales collection is the product of a unique collaboration between Profile Books, Oxfam and the Hay Festival, which brings together 38 of the UK’s leading writers, each offering a new and unpublished short story or extract in order to raise funds for Oxfam projects around the world.
With a cost of £5 per book, with at least 50p going directly to Oxfam, there’s only one thing that matches the quality of the content, and that’s the deliciousness of the covers, which are based on the four elements - earth, air, fire and water.
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Cover Love: Ox-Tales collection from Profile Books Published this week (July 4th), the four volume Ox-Tales collection is the product of a unique collaboration between Profile Books, Oxfam and the Hay Festival, which brings together 38 of the UK’s leading writers, each offering a new and unpublished short story or extract in order to raise funds for Oxfam projects around the world.
With a cost of £5 per book, with at least 50p going directly to Oxfam, there’s only one thing that matches the quality of the content, and that’s the deliciousness of the covers, which are based on the four elements - earth, air, fire and water.
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