It Growed like Topsy – Anatomy of an Audiobook Month

In keeping with the audio theme and in honour of the occasion of our final Talking Books post,  I’ve recorded it.  If you think your constitution can stand it, you can listen by clicking on the ‘Play’ button below.  I apologize beforehand for the background hum, mushy sound, slightly melancholic delivery, nasal quality and the [...]

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These we Have Loved – Audiobook recommendations

We felt we couldn’t close our Audiobook Month – Talking Books – without a few recommendations – both for those   who already enjoy audiobooks and for those who still don’t quite ‘get’ them.   Some are from the Book Foxes themselves others are from those of our guests we could persuade to stand still long [...]

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Talking Books: Audiobooks month – the Foxes Reflect

If you’re thinking that the Bookfoxes had all this month mapped out with time to spare, and gave a cursory glance to each day’s post muttering “we knew that” – not so. We’ve waited impatiently for each day’s post, and have been constantly surprised and exhilarated. The word in the den has been how much [...]

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling – read by Stephen Fry

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series was one of the Noughties biggest publishing events. It grossed many millions in sales, spawned a huge film and merchandising franchise, and led to the opening of its own dedicated theme park in Florida. But the main event was always the books; the publication of each one was preceded by [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris…

TALKING BOOKS: AUDIOBOOK MONTH ON VULPES LIBRIS – WEEK FOUR So we’re coming to the end of our Audiobook Month but we still have a few cool items up our sleeves. Now, we haven’t ever covered Harry Potter on Vulpes Libris before (she says confidently but without checking through our thousands of reviews. Bookfoxes, am [...]

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Podcast: Vulpes gets hip and happening with Cargo Publishing

In the first ever official Vulpes Libris generated podcast (ok ok,  we had Edward Petherbridge’s recording this month – but not sure if it counts as “Vulpes Libris generated”) Eve and Rosy get  hip and happening as they chat to, perhaps, the youngest  Managing Director they’ve ever met – Mark Buckland – about his company, [...]

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In Conversation With: Martin Jarvis

Ask the fabled Man on the Clapham Omnibus to name an audiobook narrator and it’s odds-on that he’ll say ‘Martin Jarvis’.  Vulpes Libris was therefore delighted to be offered the opportunity to ask the man himself a few questions about his life, work and reading tastes.  They entrusted the task to Moira – which may [...]

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Hard Times by Charles Dickens, read by Martin Jarvis

Review by Phoebe Benedict My love for Charles Dickens has continued unabated throughout my life.  It started with cuddling up on the sofa with my family on a Sunday afternoon in front of a roaring log fire and a tiny black and white TV to watch a BBC classic serial or a David Lean version [...]

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Are you an Audiobooks Addict?

YES It might be thought a strange admission for a writer, but I am a great believer in the oral tradition. Stories were told around the fireside for many centuries before anybody thought ofwriting them down. Stories were for sharing, for public consumption; they were played out on the stage, they were handed down from [...]

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Killing Floor by Lee Child – an RNIB talking book, read by Jay Benedict.

Part of Audiobook Month Honesty time: (1)  I know the narrator – Jay is a regular contributor to Vulpes Libris, so in that respect, this isn’t a 100% unbiased review … but it’s as unbiased as I can make it. (2)  Killing Floor is not a book I would normally have touched with a ten [...]

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