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Ox Tales refers to four collections of short stories written by 38 UK based authors. The books and stories are loosely based around the four elements (Earth, Fire, Air and Water).
The Ox Tales books were released in order to raise awareness for Oxfam’s role as a second-hand bookseller and raise money for Oxfam’s projects[1]. All the authors contributed their stories free of charge, so a large proportion of the cost of the books goes to Oxfam (£3.50 per book if bought directly from Oxfam[2]).
Themes
The themes of the collections are intended to represent four aspects of Oxfam’s work:
Earth – land rights and farming[3]
Air – combating climate change[4]
Fire – campaigning for arms control[5]
Water – safe water and sanitation[6]
Each book contains a poem by Vikram Seth and an afterword, written by Oxfam, detailing their work in that area.
Authors
38 British and Irish based authors contributed to this project.
Earth:
Rose Tremain, Jonathan Coe, Marti Leimbach, Kate Atkinson, Ian Rankin, Marina Lewycka, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Buckley, Nicholas Shakespeare, Vikram Seth
Air:
Alexander McCall Smith, Helen Simpson, DBC Pierre, AL Kennedy, Kamila Shamsie, Beryl Bainbridge, Louise Welsh, Diran Adebayo, Helen Fielding, Vikram Seth
Water:
Esther Freud, David Park, Hari Kunzu, Zoe Heller, Michel Faber, William Boyd, Giles foden, Michael Morpurgo, Vikram Seth
Fire:
Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks
John Le Carre, Xiaoulu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver, Jeanette Winterson, Joanna Trollope, Vikram Seth
Composition and Publication
All four books were published by Green Profile[7] (a section of Profile Books[8]) on 2nd July 2009. They were originally published as part of Oxfam’s Bookfest[9] (4th-18th July 2009).
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