Authors' Corner In Skipper's

Indulge in a quiet moment during the busy Sale day to visit Authors' Corner.

A unique opportunity to meet authors, buy your Christmas books and have them signed and personalised with ALL profits going directly to the Sale.

Thomasina Miers

MEXICAN TABLE

Award-winning chef, writer, MasterChef winner and founder of Wahaca: Thomasina Miers serves up stunning and innovative Mexican dishes you can create at home. Twelve everyday ingredients take the lead, and 100 vegetable-forward recipes are featured. Lovely pictures too!

Martin Keown

ON THE EDGE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Three Premier League titles, more than 400 appearances for Arsenal, 43 caps for England: Martin Keown is a proper football legend and also a local Oxford boy. On The Edge tells the story of his uncompromising playing days.

Sarah Vine

HOW NOT TO BE A POLITICAL WIFE

Life at the heart of Westminster politics is laid bare – high hopes, broken friendships and all – in this Sunday Times–bestselling memoir by star newspaper columnist Sarah Vine. Conservatives, Cameroons, class, family and divorce: relayed with sparkling – and sometimes rueful – wit.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

THE SHIP OF STRAYS

The third and concluding instalment in the epic, fantasy Geomancer trilogy – which sees Ysolda with magic at her fingertips and a rebel princess by her side. From the award-winning author of The Girl of Ink and Stars and Julia and the Shark.

Also signing: The Girl of Ink and Stars (special edition), In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen, and The Storm and the Sea Hawk

Mary Keen

DIARY OF A KEEN GARDENER

Mary Keen has designed wonderful gardens around the world and for high profile clients in England, including several for Lord Rothschild, and around the opera house at Glyndebourne. She writes about the year in her own garden, and her family and friends.

Imogen Edwards-Jones

THE LAST DAYS OF MARILYN MONROE

Imogen Edwards-Jones has worked with James Patterson, the leading thriller writer, to create this poignant and timely account of Marilyn Monroe’s life and death. Rigorously researched and dramatically told.

Alice Jolly

THE MATCHBOX GIRL

The story of a young girl’s survival in occupied Vienna. Adelheid Brunner does not speak, but draws, wants to collect 1000 matchboxes, and hides in cupboards. She meets Dr Hans Asperger – but why are children at his clinic disappearing?

Molly Oldfield

EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN: ALL AROUND THE WORLD

What are jellyfish made of? The answer to that, and to many other questions, is inside. Youngsters will love this colourfully-illustrated book of answers to curious questions from hundreds of children around the world.

Struan Murray

DRAGONBORN

There are dragons living among us in Struan Murray’s epic new fantasy series – and young Alex Evans is one of them. Home life is hard, but epic adventures and new friends – Dragon children – lie ahead, in a plot full of twists and turns.

Polly Nicholson

THE TULIP GARDEN

A beautifully-illustrated introduction to growing and collecting tulips, from 16th-century varieties to the latest strains. Set against the backdrop of Blacklands, the English country garden of tulip-expert Polly Nicholson.

Sally Smith

THE WOMEN WHO WENT ROUND THE WORLD

Expert parachutist and balloonist – and journalist – Sally Smith tells the inspiring true stories of the first female circumnavigators. These intrepid pioneers travelled the world by boat, train, bike, balloon and plane.

Also signing: Magnificent Women and Flying Machines

S R Masters

THE DROP

A rollercoaster read set on a rollercoaster! Twists, turns, secrets and lies abound in this tense, read-in-a-sitting thriller by Oxford-based S R Masters.