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Famous Novels with an Oxford Connection
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)	£6.39
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)	£3.50
Gaudy Night (Dorothy L Sayers)	£4.79
Porterhouse Blue (Tom Sharpe)	£13.59
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (CS Lewis)	£13.59
The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)	£20.99
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carol)	£17.00
The Novels of Iris Murdoch	£Varies
Travels with my Aunt (Graham Greene)	£5.59
The Novels of John Le Carre	£Varies

BEST SELLING OXFORD REFERENCE BOOKS
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	New Oxford Dictionary of English	£20.99
	New Oxford Thesaurus	£17.50
	Oxford Dictionary of Quotations	£17.50
	Oxford Companion to Shakespeare	£24.00
Oxford English	Oxford Book of English Verse	£20.00
Dictionary	Oxford Companion to Music	£28.00
Buy Now £72.00	Oxford Young Reader's Dictionary	£11.99

Recommended Guides
Oxford (Jan Morris)	£7.99
Oxford - The Insight Guide	£11.99
Oxford - Cities of the Imagination	£12.00
The Cheeky Guide to Oxford	£5.95
Oxford in Verse	£15.00
Oxford: An Architectural Guide	£8.00

(Auto) Biographies of Famous Oxford Alumni
Margaret Thatcher - The Downing Street Years	£32.00
Oscar Wilde (Richard Ellmann)	£9.59
Gladstone (Roy Jenkins)	£11.20
Shelley: The Pursuit (Richard Holmes)	£11.99
Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia (Michael Asher)	£7.19
Harold Wilson (Ben Pimlott)	£7.99
(Cecil) Rhodes (Antony Thomas)	£15.29
The Life of Samuel Johnson	£8.79
Tony Blair (John Rentoul)	£7.99
A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (John Bayley)	£6.39
Lewis Carroll: In the Shadow of the Dream Child (Karoline Leach)	£19.95
Freedom from Fear (Aung San Suu Kyi)	£7.19

CDs and Videos about
Oxford

Video: Shadowlands

Anthony Hopkins / Debra Winger. Set in Oxford & based upon the real-life romance between the writer (and Oxford don) CS Lewis and the American divorcee Joy Gresham.

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CD: Music for a May Morning

The choir of Magdalen College, Oxford singing May Morning madrigals.

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CD: Oxford Symphony

Recording includes Joseph Haydn's symphony no. 92 (Oxford) from a live performance by the Munich Philharmonic.

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Video: Brideshead Revisited

The complete television production of 'Brideshead Revisited', featuring eleven episodes in a three cassette box set. Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh.

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INSPECTOR MORSE
Videos & Books

Since the first episode was broadcast in 1987, the Inspector Morse TV series has become synonymous with Oxford. Set in Oxford and based on the Novels of Colin Dexter, the TV series has been a phenomenal success. The BBC have reported that the series has been watched by more than 1 billion people across 200 countries. The final episode alone, in which Morse is killed off, enjoyed viewing figures in the UK of 12 million.

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