Dr Dominic Hughes & Benedict Phillips, one of the Oxford Union's most successful debating pairsm give tips & advice for whatever type of speech you have been called upon to give
- from the wedding address to the boardroom presentation.
The Oxford Union Guide to Speaking in Public is your definitive & indispensable guide.

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Emmeline Powell had been born a country girl, in a small, whitewashed cottage on Honey's Farm. When her father died, Emmeline, bereft & lonely, married Joe Harries, a man much older than herself & one of the fishermen of Oystermouth. The wives of the oyster catchers were sturdy, stoic women, used to helping their men with the catch, & they didn't like the frail outsider who had married into their community. Nina Parks especially didn't like her
- Nina was a widow who thought Joe Harries should have been hers. Emmeline
- Eline
- grew more isolated, more unhappy, trapped into an ill-matched marriage without friends to help her. & then she met Will Davies. Will was to open new worlds to her, worlds of personal achievement, the unfolding of a talent she never knew she possessed, & the realisation that she knew how to love. As tragedy & passionate feuding began to erupt in the oyster village, so Eline clung to her integrity, her ability to work, & her hopes for the future.


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Emmeline Powell had been born a country girl, in a small, whitewashed cottage on Honey's Farm. When her father died, Emmeline, bereft & lonely, married Joe Harries, a man much older than herself & one of the fishermen of Oystermouth. The wives of the oyster catchers were sturdy, stoic women, used to helping their men with the catch, & they didn't like the frail outsider who had married into their community. Nina Parks especially didn't like her
- Nina was a widow who thought Joe Harries should have been hers. Emmeline
- Eline
- grew more isolated, more unhappy, trapped into an ill-matched marriage without friends to help her. & then she met Will Davies. Will was to open new worlds to her, worlds of personal achievement, the unfolding of a talent she never knew she possessed, & the realisation that she knew how to love. As tragedy & passionate feuding began to erupt in the oyster village, so Eline clung to her integrity, her ability to work, & her hopes for the future.


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The Pack is set in a crumbling & dangerous city, following an economic & political collapse, known as the Dead Time. In the Invisible City, the rich inure themselves from danger & threat by electrified fences & hired guards. The poor & the abandoned, segregated in the Forbidden Territories & The Zones, must fend for themselves &, for them, food is hard to come by, & the winters are cruel. The story centres round a group of street children, Victor, Floris & Bradley, their leader. The children are watched over by the Old Woman, & by a pack of dogs that Bradley has befriended, dogs who now see him as their leader & whose loyalty to him is ferocious. Though life in the Zone is hard it is the only life the children know & they dare not venture into the world beyond it. But then Floris is kidnapped & Bradley & Victor have no choice but to set out to rescue her. Their journey leads them into many dangerous territories, & their lives are endangered more than once, but ultimately it is a journey of discovery, & of healing-Though the world of The Packis fictitious many parallels can be drawn between this & our own world. ...

What are The Pages?
On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother & sister work the property while
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What are The Pages?
On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother & sister work the property while
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Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive & exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange & terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...

First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.

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' She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. 'I've got all the proof necessary' '

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with Charles Townsend, a man whom she finds charming, attractive & exciting. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange but terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages. First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.

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' She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. 'I've got all the proof necessary' '

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with Charles Townsend, a man whom she finds charming, attractive & exciting. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange but terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages. First published to a storm of protest, The Painted Veil is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.

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This book is the first comprehensive account of the art of one of the most remarkable artists working in Britain today. It traces his career from the highly original work that he completed as a student at Glasgow School of Art down to the sombre & powerful works that he has created over the last three years. The book explores Campbell's inspiration & shows how he has used the forms of figurative & narrative painting to comment on the human condition. ...