Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
Ox-Tales:Earth - cover

We are sorry! This book has not been processed correctly and we are currently working to make it available as soon as possible. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy!

Ox-Tales:Earth

Various Authors

Publisher: Profile Books

  • 1
  • 3
  • 0

Summary

Ox-Tales is a set of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. 'Earth' features stories by Rose Tremain, Jonathan Coe, Marti Leimbach, Kate Atkinson, Ian Rankin, Marina Lewycka, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Buckley and Nicholas Shakespeare, and a poem by Vikram Seth. The idea behind Ox-Tales is to raise money for Oxfam and along the way to highlight the charity's work in project areas: agriculture in Earth, water projects in Water, conflict aid in Fire, and climate change in Air. The four books will play a central role in the first ever Oxfam Bookfest, a new annual event launching in July 2009. Created in partnership with Hay Festival, the program includes more than 300 events across the UK.
Available since: 12/09/2010.

Other books that might interest you

  • Just Sweethearts; A Christmas Love Story - cover

    Just Sweethearts; A Christmas...

    Harry Stillwell Edwards

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    “Clearly he was one of those rare beings who can radiate energy standing still and convey the impression of impetuous force without motion, a trick of the eyes, a refusal to sag…. King saw her first as she started across Cherry Street from the far corner, a slender figure moving with grace and assurance through the dangerous procession of motor cars, still handled in the South as new toys,…” What is the secret that may keep these two, meant for each other, apart?Book quote and David Wales
    Show book
  • Into the Sun - One of the first ever apocalyptic Sci Fi stories - cover

    Into the Sun - One of the first...

    Robert Duncan Milne

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland. 
     
    Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written.   
     
    As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area. 
     
    Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 15th December 1899.  He was 55. 
     
    Into the Sun is a compelling narrative of what happens when the doomed Earth falls into the sun.  Is survival possible?
    Show book
  • Vicinity - Short Stories - cover

    Vicinity - Short Stories

    Justin Kennedy

    • 1
    • 7
    • 0
    A collection of surreal cyclical horror short stories, comprising the first collection from author Justin Kennedy.  Currently,  Justin lives in Campbell, CA and works at a law firm.  Much of the subject matter in this collection was inspired from real events and real nightmares.
    Show book
  • Nyfikenhet Räddade Katten - cover

    Nyfikenhet Räddade Katten

    Martin Lundqvist

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    En väldigt kort historia om en smart katt som hämtar hjälp när hans matte dör av hög ålder. Till slut så når han sitt mål och hittar en ny mänsklig rumskamrat.
    Show book
  • The Far Islands - cover

    The Far Islands

    John Buchan

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish writer, barrister, and member of Parliament and later become Baron Tweedsmuir and governor-general of Canada. While he was most famous for adventure stories, such as 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', he was also popular for his supernatural stories, of which 'The Far Islands' is a prime example.The young boy, Colin, throughout his isolated childhood on the western coast of Scotland, has dreams of a strange path out to sea which leads into a mysterious sea fog. As he grows up the vision develops and changes and he becomes aware of a far island which he can never quite reach....
    Show book
  • Haunting of Black River Forest The (A Horror Adventure Short Story) - cover

    Haunting of Black River Forest...

    Jaydeep Shah

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    A forest of blood and corpses. The land of a cold-blooded psychopath. 
    In Black River Forest, it’s best not to wander too far off the beaten track. There’s no telling what you might find. 
    Mia and Oliver have long wanted to explore the forest, and one cold, rainy October day, a week before their fifth anniversary of the day they met, they finally make the trip. 
    But they’ve heard the rumors as well. The haunting. A psychopath hidden somewhere amidst the towering trees. Too many missing. Too few answers. 
    It’s only rumors, though. Stories. And stories can’t hurt you. Yet as Mia and Oliver venture deeper into the Black River Forest, they’ll soon discover that there’s more haunting this quiet woodland than hikers and bears. 
    The psychopath is very real. And he’s excited to meet them. 
    From Jaydeep Shah, author of Tribulation, the first book of the Cops Planet series, “The Haunting of Black River Forest” is a bloody, spine-chilling story best read with the lights on.
    Show book