In the past month members of the school’s Reading Club have had the pleasure of hearing lots of authors talking about what inspires them to write. They attended a very entertaining talk at Burford School by best-selling author Jonathan Stroud in which he spoke about the latest book in his ‘Lockwood & Co’ series. In mid-November they took part in the annual Oxfordshire Book Awards ceremony at The Oxford High School where they heard talks by award-winning authors David Baddiel, Jo Cotterill and Ellie Irving, illustrator Pam Smy and local fantasy writer Ian Johnstone. Year 10 student Tristan Peissel impressed the audience of over 400 people with his brilliant review of ‘The Wolf Wilder’ by Katherine Rundell. After the ceremony the students had the opportunity to meet the authors at a special book signing session.