FORMER Prime Minister will visit Oxford twice next month, it has been announced.

He will talk about his memoir, My Life, Our Times, on November 8 at Oxford Town Hall. The book will be published on November 7.

In it he describes his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of his eyesight as a student following an accident and the death of his daughter just days after she was born.

It will be published by Bodley Head, priced at £25.

He also talks candidly about the invasion of Iraq and the Afghanistan war, along with the coalition negotiations in 2010 and the referendums on Scottish independence and Europe.

Tickets for that event cost £10 and audience members can pay £15 for the book. For any information on attending the event, visit events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk.

Later that month, he will give the inaugural Howard Wilson Lecture at Jesus College on November 20.

It will be entitled Purpose in Politics: Hope in the 21st Century and will be held from 7pm in the college’s Sheldonian Theatre.

He was the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 until 2007, the longest-serving Chancellor in modern times. He was Prime Minister from 2007 until 2010 after he replaced Tony Blair.

Admission for that lecture is free for Oxford University students and staff and £5 for members of the public.

Notable visits to Oxford for Mr Brown in the past include a tour of the Mini plant in Cowley in April 2010 as part of that year's general election campaign.

He also visited in February 2009, where he gave that year's Romanes Lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre, entitled Science and our Economic Future. While there he saw Bodleian Library treasures including an original 1217 reissue of Magna Carta and papers of former Prime Minister James Callaghan.