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“... No one, certainly not a novelist like Philip Oakes, can resist the temptation to rearrange memories, impose some sort of order or pattern. In the same way that a novelist may write about his own life, disguising it as a tale about imaginary people, autobiography may be a sly form of fiction. And it follows that the success of an autobiography depends on whether or not he makes a good story of it ...”

“... Duff uses a sternly documentary form: narrative enriched by quotations from letters and papers. Philip Oakes, in his two volumes of autobiography, From Middle England and Dwellers All in Time and Space, goes for dramatisation, total recall which must be recollection enhanced by art. Philip Oakes is a poet and ...”

“... up to £395,000), this is a tremendous example of aspiration coming to fruition,’ says Stephen Oakes, area director for English Partnerships. Inch by inch, the working canal between Limehouse Basin and the Islington tunnel has become a ladder of glass, connecting Docklands with the northern reaches of the City. Footballers, with loose change to invest, are ...”