Special Collection: Previously Featured

Louise Doughty, Old Oakhamian, Novelist

Titles currently in the Special Collection:

Fires in the Dark, Honey Dew, Dance with Me, Black Water, Crazy Paving, Apple Tree Yard

Louise Doughty was born in the East Midlands and grew up in Rutland, England’s smallest county, a rural area that later provided the setting for her third novel, Honey-Dew (1998). After school, she attended Leeds University and the University of East Anglia, where she did the MA in Creative Writing course with Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.

Louise is the author of nine novels, five plays for radio and a TV mini series. Her most recent book is Platform Seven (2019), currently being adapted as a four-part drama. The previous book, Black Water, (2016) was nominated as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year and the book before that was the bestseller Apple Tree Yard (2013), which has been published or is being translated into thirty languages and adapted into a highly successful television series.

Louise is a member of the Folio Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (D.Litt) from the University of East Anglia and another Honorary Doctorate (D.Litt) from the University of Leicester in 2022.

Source: https://louisedoughty.com/biog/ and Oakham School records          

Photo Credit: Nathalie Weatherald

Louise Doughty was at Oakham from 1974 to 1981.

China Mieville, Old Oakhamian, Novelist, Editor.

Titles currently in Special Collection: Embassytown, Three Moments of an Explosion, October, The Last Days of New Paris, The Census-Taker, The Scar, Looking for Jake and other stories, Kraken, Un Lun Dun, King Rat, Iron Council, Perdido Street Station, Railsea, The City and the City.

China Miéville is a New York Times-bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction whose work has won various prizes, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award and the British Science Fiction Award, and has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. He is one of founding editors of the journal Salvage.

Source: https://www.chinamieville.net/ and Oakham School records

China Mieville was at Oakham 1988-1990.

In the Spring Term, Form 3 begin their study of the First World War and set off to the Battlefields of Northern France, so we are featuring the Roger Anderson Military History Research Collection on this site.  This accompanies a display of some of the titles in the Smallbone Library.

In 2013 Roger Anderson presented the School with over 200 items of World War I interest, a library that he had built up whilst researching his father’s wartime career. These books are catalogued as the Roger Anderson World Wars Collection.

Roger Geoffrey Anderson was at Oakham 1936-9, then Jesus College, Cambridge. His father was Harry Anderson (Christ’s College, Cambridge). Harry was on the staff at Oakham 1919-39 as Senior Science Master, and then Second master 1937-9. He then became Headmaster of the Grammar School in Melton Mowbray. His other son David Keith (1929-69) was also at Oakham.

Image courtesy of https://pixabay.com/photos/trench-world-war-war-62919/