Vulpes Libris

Book Fox (vulpes libris): a small bibliovorous mammal of overactive imagination and uncommonly large bookshop expenses. Book foxes 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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Monday: Jackie looks back at the poetic nostalgia that is A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.

Tuesday: Nikki finds it's not all bleak in Bleak House.

Wednesday: Hilary finds in Simon Raven's The Feathers of Death an absorbing novel of adventure and suspense that left a profound impression on her.

Thursday: David discusses Freud, modesty and The Stork Caliph in the context of pre-war Hungary.

Friday: Moira (of all people) actually DOES go all fuzzy and seasonal and 'chestnuts roasting on an open fire'-y as she lingers lovingly over Jan Pienkowski and David Walser’s beautiful heirloom edition of The Nut Cracker.

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Saturday: A surprise and very welcome late entry from Edward Petherbridge, with an exclusive excerpt from his diary, kept during rehearsals for Artist Descending a Staircase, currently running at the The Old Red Lion.

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The Book Foxes

• Jackie - Jackie's art gallery


• Lisa - Lisa's website


• Moira - From the Centre Manager's Desk


• Rosy - Rosy's Blog: Mock Duck


• Kirsty - Kirsty's website


• Mary


• Eve


• Hilary


• Jay - Jay's website.


• Anne - Anne's website


• Michael Ng


• Sam - Sam's blog: Books, Time and Silence


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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.)

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Book blogs and websites

• Books From Scotland


• This Itch of Writing


• Asylum


• The Bookbag


• The Book Depository


• Booklit


• Chekhov’s Mistress


• Chicklish


• dovegreyreader scribbles


• Eve's Alexandria


• Everything Distils Into Reading


• Gaskella


• Guardian Books


• Lizzy's Literary Life


• Of Books and Bicycles


• Olive Reader


• Other Stories


• Random Jottings of an Opera Lover


• Reading matters


• ReadySteadyBook

The Short Review - all about the short story
• Stuck In A Book


• Pursewarden


• Tales from the Reading Room


• The Rap Sheet: Crime Fiction Blog


• Teach Me Tonight


• Three Percent


• The Armenian Odar Reads


• The Literary Omnivore


• Bookhugger


• Trashionista


• The View from Here


• Books, Time and Silence

Writer blogs

• Anne Brooke's Writing Journal


• Doing the Compossible


• Kate Long's website


• How to Write a Novel


• Jenn Ashworth's Blog: Every Day I Lie A Little


• Bookarazzi:Bloggers with Book Deals


• Elizabeth Chadwick's blog


• black and gray


• FictionBitch


• Kit Whitfield's Blog


• Sarah's writing journal


• Wordarts blog

Publisher blogs

• Meet at the Gate


• Oxford University Press Blog


• Peter Owen Blog


• Risking It (Marion Boyars)


• Simon and Schuster Blog


• SnowBlog


• The Friday Project


• The Hesperus Press Blog


• The Penguin Blog


• Two Ravens Blog

Publishing commentary

• Danuta Kean


• Grumpy Old Bookman


• Me and My Big Mouth


• Mark Thwaite at The Book Depository

Other book sites

• C19


• Strictly Writing


• Smartish Pace


• Corvaceous


• Book-ivorous


• The Romantic Novelists' Association

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