Alumni Books Publications

Collaborative Advantage

Paul Skinner (1995, Modern Languages)

Collaborative Advantage: How Collaboration Beats Competition as a Strategy for Success (Robinson, 2018) The history of business strategy has been…

Shakespeare’s Language: Perspectives Past and Present

Keith Johnson (1963, English)

Shakespeare’s Language: Perspectives Past and Present (Routledge, 2019) Keith Johnson offers an overview of the rich and dynamic history of the…

The Perfectionists

Simon Winchester (1963, Geology)

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (Harper, 2018) The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without…

The Clifford Household during the Wars of the Roses 1450 to 1487

Adrian Waite (1978, Geography)

The Clifford Household during the Wars of the Roses 1450 to 1487 (AW History, 2018) This book chronicles the history…

In Exile

Alexandra Turney (2009, English)

In Exile (Unbound) Currently in its funding stage and due to be published in 2018, In Exile is a teenage Greek tragedy…

How to Get On with Anyone

Catherine Stothart (1976, English)

How to Get On with Anyone: Gain the confidence and charisma to communicate with any personality type (Pearson, 2018) Most people…

The Moral Marketplace

Asheem Singh (2000, Law)

The Moral Marketplace: How mission-driven millennials and social entrepreneurs are changing our world (Policy Press, 2018) Author and activist Asheem Singh…

Trust No One

Anthony Mosawi (1992, Law)

Trust No One (Penguin, 2018) Trust No One is the explosive debut thriller from Anthony Mosawi. The book introduces a fantastic new series…

The Evolution of Economic Wellbeing

Zuhayr Mikdashi (1956, Social Studies)

The Evolution of Economic Wellbeing: Progress-Driven Economic Policies in the Era of Globalization (Routledge, 2018) Throughout history, humans have sought to…

America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956

Professor David Mayers (1974, International Relations)

America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956 (Routledge, 2018) The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first…

Trace Elements

Nigel Forde (1963, English)

Trace Elements (Valley Press, 2018) In Nigel Forde’s first collection of poetry for eight years, he takes us on a quintessentially…

London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666

Jacob F. Field (2001, History)

London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery (Routledge, 2018) The Great Fire of 1666 was one of…

Market Leader Extra

David Falvey (1981, PPE)

Market Leader 3rd Edition Extra Market Leader 3rd Edition Extra is a five-level English course for students who want to…

Regulatory Hacking

Evan Burfield (2002, PPE)

Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups (Portfolio, 2018) One of the most valuable skillsets for the next era of innovation is…

Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia

Dr Michael Vatikiotis (1980, Anthropology & Geography)

Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017) ‘The gun is never far removed…

The Simple Physics of Energy Use

Peter Rez (1973, Metallurgy)

The Simple Physics of Energy Use (OUP, 2017) As a society we use energy for climate control and lighting in…

John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford

Peter Raina (1960, Modern History)

John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford (Peter Lang, 2017) John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls, was a notable…

Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer

Professor David Mabberley (1967, Botany)

Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer (NewSouth Publishing, 2017) Ferdinand Bauer is seen by many as…

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Keith Johnson (1963, English)

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Routledge, 2017) The 3rd Edition of  An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning…

The Murder Pit

Mick Finlay (1984, Human Sciences)

The Murder Pit (Harper Collins, 2019) Sherlock Holmes has once again hit the headlines, solving mysteries for the cream of…

Shakespeare’s Heir

Chris Crowcroft (1971, Law)

Shakespeare’s Heir: Last Case for Richard Palmer, Investigator (Aesop Modern, 2017) Retired investigator Richard Palmer lives in the Charterhouse, a charity…

Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

Professor Sheryll Cashin (1984, Law)

Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy (Beacon, 2017) This book was released in conjunction with…

The Oystercatcher Girl

Gabrielle Barnby (2000, Clinical Medicine)

The Oystercatcher Girl (ThunderPoint Publishing Limited, 2017) Set amidst the spectacular scenery of the Orkney Islands, Gabrielle Barnby’s skilfully plotted first…

Bird’s Milk

Jana Bakunina (1999, Economics & Management)

Bird’s Milk (Matador, 2017) In Bird’s Milk, Jana Bakunina tells the story of her childhood in the Soviet Union from…

The Gap of Time

Jeanette Winterson (1978, English)

The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Press, 2016) The first in a series of reimagined Shakespeare plays, commissioned…

How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life

Heather Townsend (1994, Engineering)

Heather Townsend and Jo Larbie outline the challenges and opportunities that lie before any professional who wants to get to…

The Death of an Owl

Piers Torday (1993, English)

The Death of an Owl (W&N, 2016) Piers Torday has published The Death of an Owl, which was the final,…

The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748

Christopher Storrs (1972, Modern History)

The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748 (Yale University press, 2016) A major reassessment of Philip V’s leadership and what it meant for…

When Morning Comes

Arushi Raina (2013, Visiting Student)

When Morning Comes (Tradewind, 2016) It s 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and…

Clinical Chemistry

William Marshall (1963, Biochemistry)

Clinical Chemistry (Elsevier, 2016), now in its eighth edition, considers what happens to the body’s chemistry when affected by disease….