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Economic innovations to manage water security risks and tradeoffs

In Water Security, Risk and Society Conference

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University of Oxford Podcasts

Murder in the Gunroom

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H. Beam Piper


The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of h…

Kipps

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…

The Three Clerks (version 2)

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Anthony Trollope


Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…

Pictures from Italy

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Charles Dickens


Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…

A Man and His Unicorn

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Anthony Matthews


Vern was an ordinary college instructor and looking forward to spring break. But on the last day of classes and dreaming about a gorgeous ga…

Nina Balatka

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Anthony Trollope


A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…

The New Machiavelli

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure, this novel by H.G. Wells generated controversy when it…

Love and Mr Lewisham

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H. G. Wells


The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H. G. Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, show…

An Eye for an Eye

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Anthony Trollope


A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of h…

A Phantom Lover

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Vernon Lee


A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, t…

Slab City Blues: A Hymn to Gods Long Dead

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Anthony Ryan


The Slab. A vast orbiting slum where sweat falls in rain and the gene-spliced come in all shapes and sizes. Inspector Alex McLeod, recently…

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

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James Boswell


An anecdotal account of the journey undertaken by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson to the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides Islands - Summ…

Alice Dugdale

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Anthony Trollope


An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…

Riceyman Steps

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Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…

Sea and Sardinia

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D. H. Lawrence


A travel book describing a journey taken by Lawrence and his wife Frieda (whom he refers to as the Queen Bee) by sea from Sicily to Sardinia…

Bat Rider and the Cave of Oomba

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Anthony Barton


On the planet of the mile-high Yumi trees, only a few lucky boys and girls may fly bats to the treetops to harvest the fruit. Matthew John w…

The Man Who Was Thursday (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


Subtitled by the author as a "Nightmare", this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists…

England, My England

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D. H. Lawrence


A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the Firs…

Typhoon (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…

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