OMS Latest:

Max Milligan (Edgarley and Holmcroft 1974-83)

Max will be launching his collection ‘The Lebanon’, commissioned by OM Charlie Laba, at the Royal Geographical Society on Wednesday 27th October.

Max divides his time between London and Peru, where he has a farm near Machu Pichu, and would be happy to offer travel advice to any OMs travelling to that part of South America.

Max’s website is www.maxmilligan.com
 

Chris Wickham (Edgarley and Glaston Tor 1961-67)

"The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000"

Professor Wickham's tour de force has attracted much attention, not least from the Daily Telegraph's Dominic Sandbrook who describes it as 'a superlative work of historical schoalrship' and 'a worthy competitor to Gibbon's Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire'.

Christopher Kelly, a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the Literary Review writes 'In a supremely humane and intelligent book Chris Wickham has presented medieval Europe in all its vivid richness and variety'.

The Inheritance of Rome is published by Allen Lane/The Penguin Press at £35

Steve Leighton (ex-Edgarley Staff)

Steve recently launched, at Waterstone’s in Wells, his book of 28 short stories entitled ‘Tales of Kaph’, published by Red Dog Books, a collection encompassing a variety of styles, settings, subjects and lengths. Without necessarily being geographically specific, some have a clear link with Glastonbury and its alternative culture, while others have a gentle rural or coastal atmosphere, sometimes fantastical, always delightful and thought-provoking.
Many of the stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies and several have won prizes in short story competitions, including the Canongate Prize, and literature festival competitions at Wells, Yeovil and Weston-super-Mare.