So exciting! The new season of the Ten-Minute Book Club launches TODAY! Read an extract from 'Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog' by Margaret Marshall Saunders, the Canadian bestseller written in first-person – or ‘first-dog’ – narrative. #TMBC

We’re at the end of season 4 week 2 of Faculty of English TMBC, and Dr Oindrila Ghosh’s delicate animal-orientated reading of Hardy’s poem, ‘Afterwards’ english.ox.ac.uk/article/afterw… Coming to week 3 this weekend, the literature of Ndabaningi Sithole. TORCH Oxford and Minderoo Foundation project funding

Ten-Minute Book Club week 3 is up! Tinashe Mushakavanhu of St Anne's College and Faculty of English brilliantly introduces the literary work of writer and leader Ndabaningi Sithole, who wrote the first Zimbabwean English novel. english.ox.ac.uk/article/ndaban… #tmbc TORCH Oxford

Thanks for the RT Elleke Boehmer! Writers Make Worlds is such a crucial project for the Ten-Minute Book Club conception and curation (and has also informed sister-project LitHits work too)!

Ten-Minute Book Club S4 episode 4 has arrived english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/bavari…! Santanu Das Faculty of English and All Souls College takes a deep (dark) dive into one of D.H. Lawrence's very last poems #tmbc TORCH Oxford

thinking about the little fox in the fellowship of the ring 🦊

My entry for Oxford’s Faculty of English Ten-Minute Book Club is live! Follow the link to read more about Aphra Behn’s critique of colonialism in ‘The Widow Ranter’ english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-wi…

TMBC S4 Episode 6 is funny, dreamy, witty medieval lyric 'Mon in the mone stond ant strit', beautifully introduced by Ayoush Lazikani, (Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100-1250) english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-mo… Faculty of English TORCH Oxford Humanities Division

And it's open! Prof Marion Turner's #Chaucer exhibition Bodleian Libraries Weston Library is now open until April 2024. 'Chaucer Here & Now' explores the many creative responses to Chaucer & asks why this medieval author still fascinates so many people today. english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/chauce…

In this dying dark of Michaelmas season, I’m delighted to present TMBC s4 ep7, Prof Nick Perkins introducing Hoccleve’s Complaint (with audio!) english.ox.ac.uk/article/the-co… TORCH Oxford Medieval English Eleanor Parker Hoccleve Society Medievalists.net Medieval Manuscripts Faculty of English Eleanor Parker

DTA the 8th and final episode of TMBC s4! Faculty of English english.ox.ac.uk/article/the-wo… this ground breaking 1808 novel The Woman of Colour follows mixed race heroine Olivia Fairfield & her navigation of British upper class at the end of the 18thC, intro by DPhil Aditi Upmanyu! TORCH Oxford

At Bodleian Libraries Oxford Literary Festival Hub earlier today with the first of "Ten Minutes with LitHits" English Faculty Outreach Faculty of English in the Space for Reading. 1.40-1.50pm all this week: different texts each day! So much insight from attendees on our selection from The Awakening!

The brilliant Ten Minute Book Club Faculty of English English Faculty Outreach Dr Alexandra Paddock Kirsten has been shortlisted for the University of Oxford VC Awards: Community Partnership. Minderoo Foundation TORCH Oxford Humanities Division 4 seasons of fabulous books! english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-boo…

Amazing news and very well deserved! 👏👏👏🥳 If you haven't come across the Ten-Minute Book Club yet, you can explore all 4 seasons on our website: english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-boo…

Ten-minute book club has grown from just a playful spontaneous idea to a multifunctional platform full of the incredible work of Faculty, teachers of English, schools, students and readers. I’m grateful to everyone involved— with each new season I learn so much!

Dr Alexandra Paddock, Keble Lecturer in Old and Middle English Faculty of English has been shortlisted for the 2024 Vice-Chancellor's Award for her initiative - the 'Ten Minute Book Club' 📚 english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-boo…

At the Oxford Weston Library today for the Vice-Chancellor’s showcase (Community Partnership shortlist)! Come talk to me! Faculty of English English Faculty Outreach TORCH Oxford LitHits Keble College, Oxford Keble Outreach