Eve is a bookaholic. She is forever to be found with her nose in a book. If there are none around then newspapers, magazines, the back of cereal packets, road signs or the tiny washing labels found on the seams of jumpers will do.
Her other passion is writing and she is clawing her way through the mire that is the publishing industry; biting, scratching and kicking her way towards that ever more elusive publishing deal.
If she ever has a free moment then she tries to spend a few of them with her two children and husband but the literature is always calling her back. Her mind is too full of fantasy creatures, adventure stories and heroes and villains.
She just can't seem to keep a grip on reality.
Eve is also the Podcast Officer for the Litopia Writers' Podcast. A timely, irreverent, unashamedly intelligent and – addictive personalities beware – furiously compelling panel discussion show covering what’s new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. You can find her detailed and erudite show-notes at http://podcast.litopia.com/
Bookfox (vulpes libris), a small bibliovorous mammal of overactive imagination and uncommonly large bookshop expenses. Bookfoxes live in a wide variety of habitats, and usually find something to read in the unlikeliest places. They tend to hunt alone but often gather in packs to discuss their prey.
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On Vulpes this Week (from 12th May)
No overarching theme this week, but a slight art bias with two books about artists - plus a passionate rant about romance, a recently discovered wartime classic and a bit of Mayakovskian Russian poetry thrown in.
Hope you join us and feel free to join in with your comments.
Monday
An arty book from Jackie with Sue Roe's "The Private Lives of the The Impressionists".
Tuesday
The next instalment of Kirsty's Russian series with the poetry of Mayakovsky. Please note that this series runs fortnightly: every second Tues.
Wednesday
Mary looks at the famously recently discovered WW2 French novel "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky, which was taken into hiding with her daughter as a child during the war and eventually published 62 years after the author's death in a concentration camp.
Thursday
It's the turn of the Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association Catherine Jones (a.k.a. Romance writer Kate Lace) to get on that soapbox with a thoroughly entertaining rant about discrimination against romantic novelists.
Friday
More art and a popular one amongst the dog-lovers of Vulpes, Moira goes all gooey over our canine cousins with a look at the life and work of sporting artist Cecil Aldin.
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(The header image is from Aesop's Fables, illustrated by Francis Barlow (1666), and appears courtesy of the Digital and Multimedia Center at the Michigan State University Libraries.)
