Ox-Tale Soup

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Slgo-EGGOXI/AAAAAAAAG9k/74F6ZyG2a9A/s1600-h/Ox-Tales.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PddQ8xLinAc/Slgo-EGGOXI/AAAAAAAAG9k/74F6ZyG2a9A/s200/Ox-Tales.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357076803473521010" border="0" //aThe charity a href="http://www.oxfam.org/"Oxfam/a (which also just happens to be Europe's a href="http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shops/content/books.html"biggest retailer of second-hand books/a) have teamed up with Profile Books to produce a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooksamp;field-keywords=oxtalesamp;x=17amp;y=19"span style="font-style: italic;"Ox-Tales/span/a, four volumes of short stories with contributions from 38 authors.br /span style="font-style: italic;"blockquote... inspired by one of the four elements. These roughly correspond with the four main areas of Oxfam's work: conflict resolution (fire), water projects (water), climate change (air) and agricultural development (earth)./blockquote/spanspanWilliam Skidelsky, reviewing the collection in span style="font-style: italic;"The Observer/span a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/14/ox-tales-oxfam-short-stories"sees this as yet another sign of the current health of the short story in Britain/a.br /br //spanspan style="font-style: italic;"The Independent/span is running a competition to see if readers can match opening paragraphs with their authors. I say never mind trying to work out the answers - these are great examples of how short stories that we all could learn from. a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/know-your-fielding-from-your-faulks-take-part-in-our-novel-contest-1739619.html"Don't you feel pulled right in/a?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-2858601758901170767?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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