Ox-Tales: Fire

Various

ISBN 1846682592

ISBN 13 9781846682599

July 2009

Price £5.00

Paperback, 208 pp.

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Subject: Fiction

A major publishing event, Ox-Tales is a remarkable collaboration between Profile Books, the Hay Festival, Oxfam and 30 of the leading fiction writers based in Britain and Ireland.

The project launches with a set of four stunningly produced books, each containing eight original stories. Each book is themed on one of the elements – Earth, Fire, Air and Water – and features work from a dream cast of authors. The big idea 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 Book Fortnight, a new annual event launching in July 2009. The fortnight will be co-ordinated by Hay and bring together dozens of UK literary festivals, who are each being asked to put on one Oxfam event during the fortnight.

‘Classy... A great opportunity to sample a wide range of takes on this underrated form... At their best – Ali Smith, Alexander McCall Smith, Sebastian Faulks – short stories open disproportionately wide imaginative vistas’
— Daily Telegraph

‘These excellent collections include stories by some of Britain’s best-loved writers... One of the joys of collections like these is that you’re bound to come across something new... You really should buy them all’
— Financial Times