Bookshop opened in anger

A new chapter in an author's feud with Oxford University Press began today when philosopher Mr Andrew Malcolm opened a bookshop to taunt the University.

Mr Malcolm was left with a £12,500 legal bill at the end of a six-year legal battle with the OUP, that began when the company declined to publish his book.

Not satisfied with writing a 250-page book about the legal saga, he is opening his own bookshop on Broad Street to sell it. The window of the shop, opposite Balliol College, has been filled with posters bitterly criticising the University. Inside, the walls are adorned with enlarged newspaper stories about the case.

Oxford's latest bookshop, which Mr Malcolm has taken on a short-term lease, has just two books in stock: The Remedy, the account of the trial, and Making Names, the 200,000-word Platonic dialogue that the OUP declined to publish back in 1984.

An OUP spokesman said: "We respect the right of individuals to air their views publicly."

AKME EXPRESSION, MAY-JUNE 2002 THE LEGAL BACKGROUND and Malcolm's Lectureship offer THE BROAD STREET SHOP featuring the Gallery of Shame, Akme University, St. Frideswide's grotto, Akmé Ball etc. Reports: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Oxford Times 21/6 THES 26/4, Oxford Times 26/4, Guardian 30/4, Oxford Star 2/5, Oxford Student 2/5, Cherwell 3/5, Publishing News 10/5, Private Eye 17/5, Guardian 25/6, South China Morning Post 11/5, Change (US H.E. journal), Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn. Alan Ryan quits, ranting: THES 31/5, Cherwell 7/6, other quotes Rave review of Making Names in Oxford Student 30/5: "One of the most powerful statements of the human condition written in the past century."