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Oxford Book Fair Oxford FREE indie Book Fair Issue 1: May 2020 Issue #1 May 2020 © 2020 Oxford Indie Book Fair The Oxford Indie Book Fair Magazine is free to download from our website and you may distribute and pass it on freely without charge and without alterations. Articles, photos and stories are COPYRIGHT the author and may not be copied or used outside this edition without express permission of the owner. For enquiries, including submission guidelines please visit our website at the address below. We welcome submissions of articles, short stories, reviews, new releases and also advertising. www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk 2 | Oxford Indie Book Fair 2020 | www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk Editorial by Sylvia Vetta Andy, James, Ray and I shall all of you who would have exhibited, take it in turns to write the performed or visited on April 4 editorial and choose the cover we hope that our skills will have of our OXIB monthly online improved by November 21. magazine. I have chosen Our aim is to publish this online exhibitor Weimin He’s Job magazine at the end of each month done. until October. The final edition will be a printed booklet to give If you watched the final of University away on November 21. Although Challenge, Andrew Wiles presented the contents will be flexible each the trophy to the winning team in edition will include features that same spot where the builder relating to creativity, in all its forms celebrated finishing the job with a writing, publishing, art, poetry and handstand. It says Town and Gown performance. There will be virtual and the artist is Chinese so for me, book launches. In this edition we the picture represents the inclusivity present Gad’s Army. which the Oxford Indie Book Fair wants to champion. Since his time We are living through strange times as the university artist in residence when we cannot travel the world but ended, Weimin has been free to can escape into our imagination. explore new avenues and we have Katie Isbester of Claret Press writes included a feature by him. about Humour in Publishing. Should we think about how to laugh This first edition includes a gripping through Corona virus? Medics have a short story by John Matthews. In proverbial black humour which helps it there is a well-known character them survive and survive we must in who I shall not name in order not a time of plague. to spoil the pleasure of you reading it. This young man made accurate We can armchair travel to Goa with prophesies. Marissa de Luna and we can meet people virtually: characters from Andy, Ray, James and I regret that past, present and future including our skills in predicting the date of the founder of Oxford, St Frideswide Oxford’s first free Indie book fair proved to be woefully inaccurate. For If you would like to make a Oxford Indie Book Fair 2020 | www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk | 3 contribution to the magazine form of YouTube videos so that you contact me [email protected] can use the link to promote your or [email protected] video anywhere on social media and The adverts people paid for will on your websites. Could you, at the appear in the online magazine. end of your video, or when sharing magazine features print or say We are working on another way of something like this? hopefully helping our exhibitors in these tough times. In May /June Ray, ‘I look forward to seeing you on Andy, James and I will try it out first. Saturday November 21 at the first We’ll post a series of short videos. Oxford Indie Book Fair. (Full details Feedback will be much appreciated. on www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk) If these prove popular then any Entry to the fair and the events is exhibitor or performer who would free and there should be something have taken part on April 4 can submit to engage readers of all ages and one to put on the site. tastes.’ The charge for posting the video at We hope you will share the magazine £20 will be the same as a full page or some or the features with your advert and it will stay on the website friends and on social media and until the end of the year and then hopefully help each other during this we will start afresh in 2021. If you unique time when Oxford is empty. feel this is a good idea but need help putting together a video then Andy can help you. He would charge a small fee to pay for his time and expertise. They will appear in the 4 | Oxford Indie Book Fair 2020 | www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk Oxford Indie Book Fair 2020 | www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk | 5 Sponsors The Oxford Indie Book Fair team. From left to right... Ray Foulk, James Harrison, Sylvia Vetta, Andy Severn With a selection of their books 6 | Oxford Indie Book Fair 2020 | www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk Contents Humour and Publishing 8 Exhibitor Listing 10 The Oxford Review of Books 29 Vortigern’s Architect 30 Wanna sell some books? No thanks! 37 The Moral Map 38 Frideswide: Who and where is she? 41 How European Art Deco found its way to the Indian subcontinent in the 1930s 44 Windows 2019 56 Life Writing: How you can begin 58 Why Join a Writers Group? 60 Jackpot Jetty 62 Book Launch 64 Ink painting and self-salvation 75 The Cracked Jug 78 Oxford Indie Book Fair 2020 | www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk | 7 Humour and Publishing by Katie Isbester There is a well-known correlation weighed in on the topic. Laughter is between the economy and the nasty, brutish and short and, while a length of women’s skirts; the worse thing-in-itself, its nature is ultimately the GDP the higher the hemline. unknowable given that its id is Something similar happens with escaping its superego. Or words to comedy. The darker the times, the that effect. more people scoop up humorous More persuasively, psychologist D. reads. PG Wodehouse’s works hit S. Hugelshofer suggested that in their highest level of popularity times of uncertainty and insecurity, in the 1930s. In the sunny post- humour can act as a buffer, it can war years, they didn’t sell as well. help to offset depression and Douglas Adams got A Hitchhiker’s feelings of hopelessness. Guide to the Galaxy on Radio 4 in That’s been my own experience. I the same year as 1978’s Winter of uncharacteristically published a spy Discontent. While Terry Prachett spoof solely because it made me started getting his writing published laugh when I badly needed to. At in the late 1960s, it wasn’t until the the time, I was incredibly stressed recession of the early 1980s that he organising a fundraiser cum book was able to sell his first Disc World launch hosted by bestselling author, novel. Tracy Chevalier. I realised too late This correlation is not a new that the professional fundraiser had discovery. One of the therapies that quit without bothering to inform me. doctors in Ancient Greece offered I had a few very mad, very bad weeks was to whisper jokes in the ears of to pull the event together. In the patients while they were distracted middle of the anxiety, uncertainty, with some other activity. A Bronze and insecurity, I got an email from Age version of laughter as the Steve Shepperd, asking if I’d had best medicine. Plato didn’t take a chance yet to read his comedy quite so therapeutic an approach thriller, A Very Important Teapot, and suggested that laughing at which he’d submitted six months someone’s pranks and pitfalls was prior. merely childish. Presumably, no I shouldn’t have read it. I really philosopher-king ever succumbed to didn’t have the time. Besides, this a giggle. Hobbes, Kant and Freud all 8 | Oxford Indie Book Fair 2020 | www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk screwball comedy didn’t fit my pales quickly. Brevity being the soul publishing brand. And yet, I couldn’t of wit, the sheer volume of a book stop myself because the laughter robs the work of its humour. As a was such a release. Then I had to result, the comedy really has to be offer the man a contract. Seemed embedded in a plot with character only fair. development and a narrative arc. And I’m glad that I did. With the So comedy writing needs a host of COVID-19 pandemic raising anxiety finely-tuned well-crafted skills to pull and stress levels high, A Very off. That’s asking a lot out of just one Important Teapot is selling well. I sent person. For good reason, most TV a copy to a friend of mine diagnosed sit-coms have a host of writers. with a rare form of cancer that And then there’s the reality that had metastasized before she even comedy has a ticking clock, knew she had it. She wrote Steve especially satire. Jokes heavily Shepperd (via me) a note telling him rely on the context for their word how much she laughed. Everyone play, their shock and their dark needs an escape from their reality. commentary. I have no doubt that But let’s be honest. One man’s Shakespeare in his day was riotous. knee slapper is another’s lip curl. Now, we have to have many of his It changes the way we think of a jokes laboriously explained. person if we know that his face didn’t No wonder publishers resist comedy.
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