Ox-Tales Story Collection to Support Oxfam
Posted by Anne Healey in book design on July 2, 2009
Book-design afficionados are talking about Ox-Tales, a new four-volume set of story collections published to raise money for Oxfam. Each of the volumes takes one of the four elements as its theme. Thirty-eight British and Irish writers—including Kate Atkinson, Zoe Heller, Ian Rankin, and John le Carré—donated their work to the project.
In addition to looking gorgeous and supporting a great cause, the collection is also getting praise from book reviewers. Nick Rennison of The Sunday Times writes: “As a showcase for a fictional form that too often gets pushed to the back of the queue when critical plaudits are being distributed—and one that’s filled with fine exhibits—it deserves support on its own merits.” Likewise, William Skidelsky of The Observer says that the collection “would be worth reading whether or not an NGO was responsible for it.”
I wonder if they’ll distribute it in the U.S. . . .
The designer, Jon Gray (http://gray318.com/), also designed this, which you may recognize:
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