The Oxford Book of Schooldays
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Cover Story
This month our cover features The Wheel of Surya (see Authorgraph for details), with artwork by Caroline Binch. The paperback of Jamila Gavin’s book was published by Mammoth in July 1994 and we’re most grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
The Oxford Book of Schooldays
A historical overview by an editor who was expelled from her Belfast convent at the age of 16 ... so her anthology is splendidly irreverent and chillingly accurate in its portrayal of four centuries-worth of schooling by way of fiction, memoirs, autobiography, poetry and letters.