They eat horses, don’t they? Pasajes de la guerra revolucionaria/Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto Che Guevara

Well, this is embarrassing.  I had planned to bring you a review of The Black Jacobins, CLR James’ classic Marxist study of the Haitian Revolution, and I’d love to tell you that I had some spectacular and completely excusable reason for being unable to do so.  But the sad truth is that I came away [...]

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A Marriage of Art and Poetry: Interview with Poet and Publisher, Jane McKie

Leper Window, St Mary the Virgin The contagion of lepers has lifted. The low glass, where they crouched even lower, remains, but their breath, their rash, their lack has passed into the lace of shadows in the yard. Where God looked but did not touch, the lip of sandstone is purled with fissures. The beautiful [...]

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton – and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe [...]

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Slim Chances and Unscheduled Appearances by Edward Petherbridge

 “The portrayal of real life on the stage is too important to be managed without the use of long-practised artifice, magic, imagination, ritual and masquerade …” (Chapter 28:  A Plea for the Perpetuation of Stage Posh.) Edward Petherbridge has, in his own words, ‘a reputation for playing well-bred, sympathetic, asexual losers’ or – to put [...]

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The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

What I love about The Camomile Lawn is how it challenges our perceptions. When we look back at the 1940s, we make certain assumptions about the way people behaved and The Camomile Lawn totally blows those assumptions out of the water. The story begins in 1939, the last summer before the war, when a group [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris

  The Book Foxes are making the most of the last rays of summer. Some of us are walking around country gardens, admiring sunflowers and hoping they won’t be beheaded (the sunflowers, that is), while others are busy with art shows, local politics, new jobs and Freshers’ Week, and some of us (well, me) are [...]

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Dillinger’s Wild Ride by Elliott J Gorn

Review by Jay Benedict. My Granpa took to the road for years during the Great  Depression selling  vacuum cleaners, encyclopaedias and  rubber plants in the desert. Actually, that last little idea is what got him out of the Depression and back into affluence.   Only in America. John D was the flipside of my Grandfather:  his [...]

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