Afterthoughts: Ox-Tales Water

In a Nutshell: The quality of stories in this, the final volume of the four-book Ox-Tales series, is of a high enough standard to ensure that the collection as a whole remains consistently good across the board. In fact there are a couple of stories in Water which are so good that the volume is [...]

Afterthoughts: Ox-Tales Fire

In a Nutshell: Although identical in its layout and variety of stories, this third book in the series of four Ox-Tales volumes turns out to be the best of them all so far. Ideally all four volumes should be read as a unified set of course, but if you had to just pick out [...]

Afterthoughts: Ox-Tales Earth

I give my ‘afterthoughts’ on Ox-Tales: Earth, the first in a set of four short story anthologies, created specifically to raise money for Oxfam.

Daily Bookshot: Elemental Ox-Tales

I know I’ve spoken about them already today, but I couldn’t resist a personal shot of the Ox-Tales collection

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Books, Oxfam and the Hay Festival, which brings together 38 of the UK’s leading writers, each offering a new and unpublished short story or extract in order to raise funds for Oxfam projects around the world.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.