If you're coming to Coles by car, why not take advantage of the 2 hours free parking at Sainsbury's Pioneer Square - just follow the signs for Pioneer Square as you drive into Bicester and park in the multi-storey car park above the supermarket. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. You don't need to shop in Sainsbury's to get the free parking! Where to Find Us Mark asked Katherine Bradley a philosophical question: ‘Why do societies allow this to happen? Having studied Orwell as you have many times and now written The Sisterhood, how do you answer that question?’

What a great idea, to look at George Orwell's novel "1984" through a feminist lens and the eyes of the character Julia, Winston's Smith's sometime lover! Sadly, The Sisterhood failed to provide any further meaningful insight to the world of 1984. By failing to sidestep the imposing shadow of the Orwell work, it struggled to emphasise its own originality or necessity.

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This is a story about love, about family, about being a woman, a mother, a sister, a friend and ultimately about what you would sacrifice for the greater good. Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati: A nuanced and sympathetic story of the infamous queen of Sparta, who suffers the grimmest of betrayals and is driven by a ruthless desire for revenge. But nowhere have these kinds of stories been more fully explored than in literature, where the impulse to reinvent old characters and reimagine old plots can be seen across almost every genre and aimed at every kind of readership. Commonly hinged on the big players of the Western canon – classical mythology, European fairytales, Shakespeare, the Bible – a steady stream of retellings have allowed readers to experience familiar tales in new lights.

Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson: A queer, feminist retelling of the Hercules myth from the perspective of the forgotten women and male lovers who shaped the life of Greece’s greatest hero. Big Brother is always watching. In a time where everyone is so indoctrinated by the presense of Big Brother, where they accept that they are constantly under surveillance, where they praise Big Brother for his kindness, where they love him, where they devote their lives to him, where the give up their family members for him, he doesn't even exist. He is the voice on the telescreens, the face on posters and yet he is a persona. An illusion. A ghost. In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Inspired by the myth of the Chinese moon goddess Chang’e … Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan. Photograph: HarperCollins In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Julia is the seemingly perfect example of what women in Oceania should be: dutiful, useful, subservient, meek. But Julia hides a secret. A secret that would lead to her death if it is discovered. For Julia is part of the underground movement called The Sisterhood, whose main goal is to find members of The Brotherhood, the anti-Party vigilante group, and help them to overthrow Big Brother. Only then can everyone be truly free.With Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell constructed an unforgettable fictional world, but one riddled with mysteries. Some unanswered questions - does Big Brother really exist? Was Julia working for the Thought Police all along? - feel like strategic ambiguities. Others, such as the operation of the telescreen or details of life in the "prole district", seem more like omissions. Perhaps Orwell decided that they were irrelevant to his mission of explaining the psychology of totalitarianism. Perhaps, because he was desperately ill with tuberculosis, and racing to finish the book between hospitalisations, he simply didn't have the time or energy to plug the gaps. Then again, all novelists have their blind spots and weaknesses, so it's possible that Orwell didn't even register how much he had left unexplained. If the lukewarm reaction to Shelley’s retelling suggests that society in her day was not yet ready for those minor female characters to take centre stage, then what does the current enthusiasm for reassessment imply? Books of this nature are not novels, they are a hobby – like one of those pandemic projects. Oh, I’m going to watch all 100 films on the Sight and Sound best ever list and share my thoughts on them online. Oh, I’m going to take a novel beloved by sixth-form literature teachers and political columnists and turn the men into women. A dazzling retelling of the classic dystopian novel, which raises profound questions about how society works, and whether or not woman have political agency. I found it memorable, deeply moving, and at times, terrifying'