Imagine Oxford

by JackieVickers (Author)

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  Paperback
  2012

  $12.77

  Although all the stories in this collection have a basis in reality, they take the reader into an imagined Oxford in which, for example, an old portrait seems to smile at an American tourist, a summer's punting has unexpected consequences and gargoyles come to life. More prosaically, there are problems in a tattoo studio and with parking in the Westgate multi-stories. Each one concludes with some background on the real-life people, places and events on which it is based. Oxford is a magical place as every resident knows and as visitors soon discover. It has inspired scholars and writers for centuries and spawned politicians, scientists and a good few eccentrics. As this entertaining collection shows, every corner is bursting with humour, mystery and romance.