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ALUMNI NEWS<br />
News in Brief<br />
selection; People magazine called it ‘heartwrenching<br />
and funny’, while the Reader’s<br />
Digest included it on its ‘Don’t Miss List’.<br />
Richard Brett-Knowles (1941, Physics)<br />
has participated in an oral history project<br />
organised by the British Library. Entitled ‘An<br />
Oral History <strong>of</strong> British Science’, the series<br />
documents the lives <strong>of</strong> the scientists and<br />
engineers at the heart <strong>of</strong> Britain’s twentieth<br />
century scientific endeavour. He describes<br />
his wartime experiences in developing secret<br />
radar technology, while studying at Catz.<br />
Limestone Hills, the farm owned by Gareth<br />
Renowden (1972, Human Sciences), became<br />
the first truffiere in New Zealand to produce<br />
three main commercial species <strong>of</strong> truffle. In<br />
October 2012, Gareth published the first book<br />
in a planned speculative fiction<br />
trilogy. The<br />
Aviator: The<br />
Burning World<br />
is a satire set<br />
in a near future<br />
being battered<br />
by rapid climate<br />
change, and<br />
owes a debt to<br />
Gulliver’s Travels.<br />
Harriet Sergeant (1974, English) has<br />
recently published Among the Hoods: My<br />
Years with a Teenage Gang, documenting a<br />
dramatic three years she sent befriending a<br />
teenage gang in London. The book charts her<br />
encounter with the gang leader Tuggy Tug,<br />
and a growing friendship which is described<br />
as <strong>of</strong>fering Harriet a new understanding <strong>of</strong><br />
the deprivation and despair many young<br />
people encounter. The Independent called it<br />
a ‘candid, and deeply affecting report’, while<br />
David Lammy MP, writing for The Telegraph,<br />
praised the book for <strong>of</strong>fering ‘a window into<br />
the personal journey <strong>of</strong> a remarkable woman’.<br />
Sonia Taitz (1976, English) has recently<br />
published, The Watchmaker’s Daughter,<br />
telling ‘the fishout-<strong>of</strong>-water<br />
story<br />
<strong>of</strong> a young Jewish<br />
girl, the daughter<br />
<strong>of</strong> Holocaust<br />
survivors, and her<br />
life at <strong>Oxford</strong>’.<br />
Vanity Fair included<br />
it in their ‘Hot Type’<br />
Dr Mustafah Dhada (1977, Social <strong>St</strong>udies)<br />
has recently published America: Have We<br />
Crossed The Rubicon, which appeared in<br />
the November 2012 edition <strong>of</strong> Empirical<br />
magazine. Mustafah, who himself contributed<br />
to the constitution <strong>of</strong> his native Mozambique,<br />
asks whether the US Constitution has been<br />
circumvented in a range <strong>of</strong> areas, including<br />
elections, the censorship and control <strong>of</strong><br />
media, and corporate influence over elected<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficials.<br />
Frank Hinks (1986, Law) has recently<br />
published, to glowing reviews, The Body<br />
Collector, the fifteenth book in the Ramion<br />
series which he writes and illustrates. Since<br />
1995 he has produced over 400 full page<br />
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