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Oxford Examined: Town & Clown
Richard O Smith
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Description for Oxford Examined: Town & Clown
Paperback. Comic look at Oxford by a local comedian Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; WH; WQH; WQN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected here are 70 of his best Oxford Examined columns from the award-winning Oxford Times magazine Oxfordshire Limited Edition including several previously unpublished stories.In these unflinchingly truthful columns he meets celebrities (Kate Middleton, Dara O'Briain, the one who plays Phoebe in Friends and a predictably grumpy Alan Sugar), visits the 11th dimension with an Oxford University maths protegee, gatecrashes Encaenia, flirts with a Roman slave girl from ... Read more
Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected here are 70 of his best Oxford Examined columns from the award-winning Oxford Times magazine Oxfordshire Limited Edition including several previously unpublished stories.In these unflinchingly truthful columns he meets celebrities (Kate Middleton, Dara O'Briain, the one who plays Phoebe in Friends and a predictably grumpy Alan Sugar), visits the 11th dimension with an Oxford University maths protegee, gatecrashes Encaenia, flirts with a Roman slave girl from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909930353
SKU
V9781909930353
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Ref
99-50
About Richard O Smith
Richard O. Smith is the author of The Man With His Head in the Clouds ("Very, very funny" - Lucy Porter). His other books include Oxford Student Pranks ("A jam-packed jamboree of jollity" - Dr Lucy Worsley), Britain's Most Eccentric Sports ("Better than all 26 days of a cricket match" - Henning Wehn), Amazon no. 1 bestseller in humour As ... Read more
Reviews for Oxford Examined: Town & Clown
'Bring together an outstanding comic writer and a city of unlikely people and you'll find the perfect love-match. The wittiest, zaniest, and most truthful guide to a city you'll read: armchair travel has never been so good. Or so funny.'
Susie Dent; 'Comic writing at its best.'
Griselda Heppel, winner of The People's Book Prize; 'The funniest book ever about Oxford. Pure ... Read more
Susie Dent; 'Comic writing at its best.'
Griselda Heppel, winner of The People's Book Prize; 'The funniest book ever about Oxford. Pure ... Read more