I am a visual artist and poet, founder of Magdalen Road Studios, with 10 public sculptures in the Oxford area and many public participation artworks as part of Oxford’s twin city links. I am interested in what makes us human and our relationship to our environment. I have published 4 books related to my work which are for sale at table S41.

Prof. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu teaches and researches in the fields of Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies (Philosophy, Art History, History of Ideas). Most recently her work has focused on Mediterranean culture.

She has a DPhil/PhD in Arts from the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Dr. Vasilescu is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.

She has published books and articles with Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Routledge, Peeters and Vasilescu Academic Oxford (her own publishing house).

Among her latest books are ‘Michelangelo, the Byzantines, and Plato’ (2021, second revised edition 2025); ‘Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia’ (2024), ‘Creation and Time. Byzantine and Moder’ (2021), ‘Glimpses into Byzantium. Its Philosophy and Arts’ (an anthology of peer-reviewed articles).

Dr. Vasilescu has also published chapters in collective volumes published by Ashgate, Routledge and other well-known publishers. Moreover, Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu published three volumes of poems: ‘Bucuria Verii cu Fluturi/A Summer with Butterflies’ (2025); ‘Tot despre cuvinte’/’About Words Again’ (2026), and ‘E Dreptul Meu’ [‘It is my Right’]

She directed two films: one is titled “Ieşirea din Labirint”/”Escape from the Labyrinth” and the other is based on Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and is titled as such. The latter had its premiere on the 2nd of May, 2026, at the Ultimate Picture Palace cinema in Oxford.

Panjeree is a leading and trusted name in Bangladesh’s publishing sector. Since its journey began in 1994, it has expanded from educational books into diverse areas of publishing, combining experience with a modern approach to serve readers of all ages.

Panjeree has already achieved distinction in publishing creative works, particularly in children’s literature. Realising the importance of the young readers, we have been successfully publishing reference books, novels, poetry books, comics, travelogues, classics in translation for the juveniles that have created a culture of reading among them.

Our commitment to publish quality books has received wide acclamation. Crossing the borders, Panjeree has already earned commendation as a result of our endeavor to expand our market and activities in India, the UK and other parts of Europe, the USA, Australia, and few other countries.

Our contributors include distinguished academics, researchers, award-winning writers and editors, supported by experienced in-house editors and proofreaders. Panjeree also operates an extensive distribution network and PBS, its international standard bookshop chain, which organises year round book fairs all over the country.

As we work towards becoming a global name, we remain committed to UNESCO’s ‘Books for Everyone’ and the Bangladesh Government’s ‘Education for All’, promoting a future where passion for reading drives social progress.

Fran Clark writes emotive women’s fiction inspired by the connection between London and the Caribbean. Her work explores themes of identity, family, and resilience, often shaped by the storytelling traditions of her Dominican heritage. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and lives in the English countryside, where she also teaches vocals.

A Yorkshire Gospel: Search for a Spare Messiah

In the quiet East Yorkshire village of Roos, so flat you could watch a terrier run away for three days, are two men of middling ambition that stumble upon a mystery of biblical proportions.

When Coldog and Trev discover a cryptic message on a beer mat suggesting someone called ‘Helen’ may have found the Grail, they do what any reasonable men would do. They go looking for it.

What follows is a quest involving: a jar with suspicious contents, a dog who is always muddy, at least three Helens, and the worrying possibility that God might have had a second child.

A Yorkshire Gospel is a surreal, irreverent, and thoroughly northern adventure about faith, friendship, and the dangers of thinking too hard after six pints. Somewhere between divine revelation and administrative error lies the truth. And it might just be in Yorkshire.

About the Author
C. R. de Gernon writes comedic fiction from a fortified potting shed, drawing inspiration from the people, buildings, landscapes, and peculiar logic of Yorkshire life. He writes in various persons as he identifies as plural. He explains that “I am one” and “the other is me”; therefore, the two of us are “we”.

It is understood that he currently lives somewhere in East Yorkshire, where rumours continue to circulate with alarming efficiency.

C. R. de Gernon is the 14th heir to a title that no longer exists and a fortune of sprouting vintage grass seeds.

‘The Birds Were the Only Ones Singing’ is a diverse anthology of poems that reflects the world around us.

Split into six chapters, the poems are drawn from the poet’s personal experiences and explores nature, community, folk, love, loss, and metamorphosis.

Dolezal details his own personal sense of escapism into nature and where he finds solace. The poems ask readers to question where they feel most at peace. The chapter reveals how elements in nature can be a metaphor for human greed and deception.