Ten-Minute Book Club https://english.web.ox.ac.uk Oxford Mosaic Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:29:59 +0100 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:29:59 +0100 The Woman of Colour, an Anonymous novel https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/woman-colour https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3699131 Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Complaint by Thomas Hoccleve https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/complaint-thomas-hoccleve https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3633391 Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Man in the Moon, an anonymous Medieval lyric https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/moon-anonymous-medieval-lyric https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3606206 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Widow Ranter by Aphra Behn https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/widow-ranter-aphra-behn https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3598676 Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 'Bavarian Gentians' by D.H. Lawrence https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/bavarian-gentians-dh-lawrence https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3589811 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 African Nationalism by Ndabaningi Sithole https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/ndabaningi-sithole-african-nationalism https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3566181 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100 ‘Afterwards’ by Thomas Hardy https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/afterwards-by-thomas-hardy https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3546691 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog by Margaret Marshall Saunders https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/saunders-beautiful-joe https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3011411 Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 ‘The Little Black Boy’ by William Blake https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/blake-little-black-boy https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3006971 Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 The legends of Mermaids: In folklore, anonymous Ballads, and the work of Rivers Solomon and Monique Roffey https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/mermaids-ballads-solomon-roffey https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3001381 Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Speech from ‘The Book of Sir Thomas More’, attributed to Shakespeare https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/shakespeare-sir-thomas-more https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2990171 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 ‘The Cock and the Jasp’ from Morall Fabillis by Robert Henryson https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/henryson-cock-and-jasp-morall-fabillis https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2989666 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Tunnel by Dorothy Richardson https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/richardson-the-tunnel https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2970196 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Exeter Book riddles https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/exeter-book-riddles https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2974226 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Entertainment at Britain’s Burse by Ben Jonson and ‘Stoneware dish, Longquan kilns’ by Sarah Howe https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/jonson-entertainment-at-britains-burse-howe-stoneware-dish-longquan-kilns https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2969711 Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/collins-moonstone https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2964096 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Satan: His Methods and Malice Baffled by Hannah Allen https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/allen-satan-his-methods-and-malice-baffled https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2843391 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/langland-the-vision-of-piers-plowman https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2847696 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/lewis-it-cant-happen-here https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2797456 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 ‘The Slave Auction’ and ‘Bury Me in a Free Land’ by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/harper-slave-auction-bury-me-in-a-free-land https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2793951 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100