Canongate acquires CSA Word: Exclusive Interview

TALKING BOOKS: AUDIOBOOK MONTH ON VULPES LIBRIS The news that Canongate was acquiring major audiobooks publisher CSA Word was quite a surprise to some, and seen by others to be an exciting indicator for the future. MD of Canongate, Jamie Byng, was quoted by The Bookseller as saying, ‘Audio has been an area of publishing [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris …

TALKING BOOKS: AUDIOBOOK MONTH ON VULPES LIBRIS – WEEK TWO We cover a lot of ground in the second week of Talking Books. We travel from Victorian London to Middle Earth via the Afterlife in our reviews, consider whether listening to audiobooks really qualifies as ‘reading’ at all and to close the week, take a [...]

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Audio Books for kids. For… and against!

I’m not going to give you a definitive answer in this post.  I’m not going to sway you one way or the other.  Not even a hint… All I intend to do is give you my own personal opinion which is both For and Against and let you make up your own mind. I was [...]

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The Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell, read by Richard Armitage

Part of Audiobook Month on Vulpes Libris The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted that, when the name of actor Richard Armitage comes up on Vulpes Libris, I am never far away. Yes, I am a fan – as I said in my piece on the TV adaptation of ‘North and South’, after his outstanding [...]

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Dead Room Farce: a Charles Paris mystery by Simon Brett

Not an audiobook, but part of Audiobook Month nonetheless.  It’s about audiobooks… that counts, right? Literary detectives are often ultra-intelligent, stylishly eccentric beings with an uncanny instinct for human behaviour.  Charles Paris, on the other hand, is an acutely insecure, sexually incontinent being with terminally poor judgment.  He’s not a bad person; in a way, [...]

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Interview with Barnaby Edwards of Textbook Stuff

In the second of their audiobook publisher interviews, Vulpes Libris talk to Barnaby Edwards of new kid on the audio-block, Textbook Stuff. Oo:~~~ VL: You’re an actor by trade – with many years of voice over work under your belt; so the first and most obvious question is therefore – why did you decide to [...]

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Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot, read by Ralph Fiennes

Having read Four Quartets before, I was surprised at how much more I got from it when rereading it while listening to Ralph Fiennes recite it on this new audio version. I realized that musicians such as Genesis and The Beatles were influenced by this work, as well as other poets, like Robert Frost. As [...]

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Interview with Nicolas Soames of Naxos AudioBooks

Audiobook Month on Vulpes Libris Audiobook Month on Vulpes hits the ground running with a fascinating and wide-ranging interview with Nicolas Soames, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Naxos AudioBooks. —o— VL: Naxos has an amazing collection of work on offer – fiction, non-fiction, classic, history, biography – not to mention poetry and plays. Obviously plays [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris …

TALKING BOOKS: AUDIOBOOK MONTH ON VULPES LIBRIS It all started quite innocuously. “Let’s do a week on audiobooks”, we said.  “We can probably just about find enough stuff to fill five or six days.  We can review a couple of  them, have an opinion piece, some recommendations – and perhaps we can persuade one of [...]

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Introducing the Lubitz TrotskyanaNet/Closing remarks

The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet: An invaluable Trotsky resource The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet is a labour of love.  Online since 2004, the site is the product of forty years spent collecting and cataloguing anything to do with Trotsky.  Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz keep their site constantly updated with new information, or old information newly unearthed, producing a new [...]

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