Birthday Week on Vulpes Libris

This week is Vulpes Libris’ third birthday. Yes, we’re toddlers now. In that spirit, amid the cake and champagne, we decided to delve into fairy tales and foxes, sometimes both at once, to mark the occasion. And we also wanted to thank you, dear readers, for all your visits and comments over the past three [...]

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Withering Tights by Louise Rennison

It’s Saturday!  And I have a day off at last.  In fact, I bet loads of you have days off today, so I expect, like me, you have a ton of things to do.  This review is therefore going to be short and sweet and to the point so we can all get out there [...]

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Bleeding, Blisters and Opium by Michael Sydney

Joshua Dixon and the Whitehaven Dispensary An amazing thing happened to the little Cumberland fishing village of Whitehaven between the middle of the 17th century and the end of 18th century.  From being a tiny coastal community of about 24 households, it grew  to become the second most important port in England after London, with [...]

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Girl Friday by Jane Green: a feel-good novel for the over forties

Since her divorce a year ago, Kit Hargrove feels she has finally got her life back on track. Gone is the lonely Wall Street widow she used to be, and in her place is a happier, more fulfilled woman, with a new job she loves – working for uberfamous novelist Robert McClore – a small [...]

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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller

As Pippa Lee, thirty years younger than her powerful publisher husband Herb, makes the move for his sake into a retirement home, the sense of suffocation is almost immediate. In her early fifties, with her husband just turned eighty and showing no signs of slowing down, Pippa is one of the “young ones” in the [...]

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Sunday Haiku by Anne Brooke

Disclaimer: Anne Brooke is my friend. She offered review copies; I jumped at the chance. A year in haiku. Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall; Autumn doesn’t scan. Some are seasonal; some are situational; all are bloody good. So much elegance; so much impact in a short poem of three lines. I suck at haiku. Anne [...]

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Nothing To Envy by Barbara Demick

In the U.S., Kim Jong-Il is a joke. Political comedian Bill Maher nicknamed him “Lil’ Kim”, which is always good for a laugh, but that’s about the extent of what’s generally known of North Korea. The Korean War is often called “The Forgotten War” because even though it was more recent than WW2, it had [...]

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Coming Up This Week

The Foxes return to a variety of topics this autumn week. We have poetry, politics and medicine, among other things.Not to mention a book written by one of the Foxes themselves; Anne Brooke’s haiku is in the spotlight and we foxes are lining the red carpet in anticipation of the review. We hope you’ll join [...]

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Sunday Giveaway – Star Gazing by Linda Gillard

Winner of the Woman’s Weekly/RNA  Poll for Favourite Romantic Novel 1960 – 2010 Probably no-one was more surprised than Linda Gillard herself when her novel Star Gazing topped the recent RNA/Woman’s Weekly poll to find the nation’s favourite romantic novel of the last 50 years, because her heroine was not – in her own words [...]

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An Interview with Jill Mansell: Part II

For Part I, click here. Your books are overwhelmingly set in and around the West Country.  Do you feel like a Local Author, or are you simply writing about the geography that’s familiar to you? I suppose it’s a bit of each.  I love the West Country.  I love Bath and the Cotswolds, because I [...]

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