The Wedding Girl by Madeleine Wickham – a tale of two marriages

At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so he could stay in England, she didn’t hesitate. To make it seem real she dressed up in wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs. Now, ten years later, Milly is a [...]

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The books from childhood that stay with you versus the books that don’t

I rushed to volunteer myself for a post this week as…well, I was supposed to do a post last week and then promptly forgot. Which is shameful. So here I am. I am due to write a rather complicated and in-depth review of Bernard Schlink’s essays on Collective Guilt – which are marvellous things. However, [...]

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Mr Big by Ed Vere

Due to some technical difficulties of brain-exploding proportions, my scheduled mini-reviews will now appear at a later date. Rather than skive off altogether, however, I have a review of a rather cool children’s book. As the first page tells us, “Mr Big had a small problem. Compared to everyone else, he was extremely . . [...]

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Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

I sort of missed the Kate Atkinson trend. For a while now, I’ve seen her name everywhere, but somehow never picked up one of her books. It only dawned on me recently that in actual fact I have read – and loved – one of her books, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. I was [...]

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Coming Up…

VL is review-tastic this week with a full house from the foxes and Lisa pushing the boat out even further by doing a multi-collection of reviews on Tues. Phew! You can hardly see us for feverish page-turning. So, no excuse for our readers not to hitch on down to their local LIBRARY and check out [...]

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Flowers in the Attic by Virgina Andrews

I have decided to start my own new mini series that I will post occasionally (and others may like to join in).  I’m going to call it Guilty Pleasures.  And number one on my list of Guilty Pleasures is Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews.  I should really review this book as my 13 [...]

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I Love the 80s by Megan Crane – a book of two halves

Jenna loved everything about the 80s – the hair, the fashion, the music – and most of all, Tommy Seer, pop legend. He was the one for her until he died when she was twelve. Her fiancé Adam was all set to take his place in her heart until he left and Jenna resigned herself [...]

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Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence Into Magic, by John Hegarty

It would never have occurred to me to read this book, or any book like it, but I heard John Hegarty on Radio 4 (Start The Week? Midweek? Some programme of the sort) during the week he launched his memoir-cum-textbook, and I really enjoyed listening to him. Another aspect that intrigues me is that he’s [...]

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Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

This book was different than I expected. I was imagining a restaurant worker creating fancy recipes to show they had more skill than were given credit for. Instead, it was a secretary who is having a mid-life crisis(at 30) and decides to cook all of the recipes in Julia Child’s iconic first cookbook and blog [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris

After much haggling in the Den (sounds a bit like a sitcom village) it’s a tasty start to this week for the Bookfoxes, with the possibility of some surprises to follow. I always try to look for a linking theme, but this week, I can categorically assure you there isn’t one. On Monday Jackie cooks [...]

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