An interview by the Oxford Mail with Monica Lewinsky looked in doubt today as she cancelled a series of meetings with journalists.

Monica, at the centre of the Bill Clinton sex scandal, had agreed to talk to the Mail during her visit to Oxford tomorrow.

But last night, a series of interviews arranged during book-signing sessions across the country was cancelled after her publishers claimed she was being "too indiscreet".

After intense negotiations, Monica agreed to a pre-recorded interview with Jenni Murray for Radio 4's Woman's Hour today. But other interviews looked doubtful.

The 25-year-old will be signing copies of her book, Monica's Story, at Waterstones in Cornmarket Street from noon. Meanwhile, Oxford University dons have quietly secured a dinner date.

Fellows of All Souls invited her after hearing of the book-signing.

She was expected for dinner on Monday after a fraught day signing books at Harrods, where she fled from the cameras in tears. But the visit was cancelled and she is now expected to join the dons tomorrow.

An All Souls spokesman said: "There have been many rumours about the visit. There has been no official college invitation. I understand one of the fellows invited her as a guest."

The visit to Oxford will give Monica the chance to see some of President Clinton's old haunts. Her former love was a student at University College in the sixties.

Oxford detective writer Colin Dexter made a special trip to London to meet Monica and give her a copy of a Morse book. Mr Dexter, 67, left his wife Dorothy in their north Oxford home while he visited Borders bookshop in Oxford Street yesterday. Inside the copy of Morse's Greatest Mystery, a collection of short stories, he wrote the message: "Good luck - I wish I was 45 years younger."

*County Bookshops, which has 50 stores nationwide, has slashed Monica's book from £16.99 to £12.99 because of poor sales. But it is still expected to be in the best-selling top five this week.

Story date: Wednesday 10 March

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