Coming up on Vulpes Libris

This week on Vulpes Libris we have poets and revolutionaries, sex and betrayal, the past and the present.  Or, in the case of some posts, all of the above. On Monday, Jackie peers at The Wit in the Dungeon, Anthony Holden’s biography of Leigh Hunt. On Tuesday, Kirsty welcomes – with some reservations – Richard [...]

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Mondays are Murder by Tanya Landman

Several months ago I put out a call for book recommendations. More specifically, I was interested in books written by authors living in either Devon, Cornwall or Somerset, or books set in these places. My fellow Bookfox, Hilary, mentioned Tanya Landman as an author based in North Devon and I eagerly rushed off to my [...]

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The Corner That Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

More nuns. 14th century English ones, this time. I hope that’s not too many nuns in one month, but I couldn’t get my very positive recollection of this novel out of my head while I was reading Sarah Dunant’s ‘Sacred Hearts’. The country, the culture and the context are wildly different, so there are no [...]

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Interview with Lynn Price of Behler Publications.

Lynn Price is Editorial Director of Behler Publications, a small independent publisher based in California. I have known Lynn for quite some time since we both hang out over at Litopia Writers’ Colony. But we’re not here to chat about that, I want to hear all about her adventures in publishing and the books she [...]

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Climbing a Ladder Backwards by Kal Bonner: misrepresenting Bridget …

Rose Murdock, single, straight and on the brink of bitter and twisted, believes maturity is a word best applied to wine, lists malingering as her favourite pastime and has filed her love life under missing in action – presumed dead. Dumped by her boyfriend, Gary, in a place she doesn’t want to be, in a [...]

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Murder at The Old Red Lion

by Edward Petherbridge From the 1st to the 31st of December last year, Edward was appearing in Tom Stoppard’s Artist Descending a Staircase at The Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington. The Old Red Lion is one of the oldest public houses in London; an inn of that name has stood on the same site [...]

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The Music Room by William Fiennes

This book was like a rope with 3 strands. One strand was a memoir, one was a tribute to the author’s brother who had epilepsy and the third was tracing the history of medical research into that disease. The strands did not always blend seamlessly and each generated a different feeling in me, leaving me [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris

It’s all ups and downs on VL this week as the Foxes tell us about their exhilarating, frustrating, disappointing and uplifting cultural encounters.  Hold on tight! On Monday, Jackie considers the multi-strand memoir of William Fiennes’ The Music Room. On Tuesday, Honorary Book Fox Edward Petherbridge makes a welcome return with a poem about his [...]

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Spinal Tap: treading the fine line between stupid and… and… clever.

We all know This is Spinal Tap is a parody… or is it? With another comeback album released just last year (with the standard re-working of old material, celebrity guest appearances and a few new tracks thrown in), the band are certainly behaving like their allegedly real counterparts.  To me, it’s just confirmation of something [...]

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Awakening of the Dream Riders by Lynda Louise Mangoro: of magic and dreaming

On a quiet street in a picturesque English seaside town, Kyra Sutton makes an extraordinary discovery that at first promises thrills and excitement, but will ultimately test the schoolgirl and her friends to the extreme. Her startling discovery will change the course of their lives … forever. Can they master their newfound supernatural gifts in [...]

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