In the third of their occasional features “In Conversation with”, Vulpes Libris talks to the US-born actor Jay Benedict.
Jay has worked extensively in theatre, film and television in the UK and continental Europe and is probably best known to British audiences as US Army officer John Kieffer in the Foyle’s War episode, ‘Invasion’ and the [...]
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Posted in Entries by Moira on July 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Flushed with triumph from our “Children’s Book Week” we are launching ourselves straight into “France Week”, starting tomorrow, on Bastille Day. (And if you don’t know what Bastille Day is, shame on you and go and look it up …).
We don’t normally reckon to do two theme weeks back-to-back … but what can I [...]
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Posted in Entries by Jackie, Entries by Lisa, Entries by Mary, Entries by Moira, Entries by Rosy, Entries by Trilby, Fiction: children's, tagged Noel Steatfeild, Ballet Shoes, The Ogre Downstairs, childhood reading, Diana Wynne Jones, Edward Gorey, Brenda G. Macrow, Mr Whisper, Malory Towers, Enid Blyton, The Chalet School, Elinor Brent-Dyer, Francine Pascal, Sweet Valley High, Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis on July 7, 2008 | 43 Comments »
It will be no surprise to anyone that we bookfoxes have all been book lovers from our very earliest days. For some of us, the first books that touched our hearts were ones featuring children with magical powers or amazing lives, children like us and yet ones who were very different; for others, stories [...]
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Laydeez and Gennlemen!! Roll up, roll up for Vulpes Libris’ second Great Book Giveway!!
William Heinemann have very generously donated not one, but TWO - count ‘em, TWO - first edition, hardback copies of Nick Harkaway’s extraordinary debut novel The Gone-Away World (reviewed by yours truly HERE) - and if they aren’t future collectibles, I’ll [...]
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On June the 6th, 1944 some 23,250 US troops were safely landed on the Normandy beach codenamed ‘Utah’. Unlike their compatriots on the neighbouring ‘Omaha’ beach, the men on Utah were comparatively lucky and met with little resistance.
Officially, there were approximately 200 casualties.
The true cost of the Utah landings was, however, far higher - [...]
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Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880
Glass. We all know it. We all use it. We all look through it dozens of times a day without really thinking about it. We admire it in church windows, we decorate our homes with it and we drink from it. It is an everyday [...]
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When we produced our Mothering Sunday recommendations earlier this year we were taken to task (very nicely you understand) because we’d left it a bit - well - late for anyone who wanted to buy any of the books suggested. So, for Father’s Day (this Sunday), we’ve got our little vulpine acts together and there’s [...]
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In the second of their occasional features “In Conversation with …”, Vulpes Libris talks to the British actor/director/writer/artist/poet Edward Petherbridge.
His theatre career spans over 50 years but he is probably best known as Newman Noggs in the ground-breaking Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby, as co-founder of the [...]
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Posted in Entries by Moira, Fiction: fantasy, Fiction: humour, Fiction: romance, Fiction: science fiction, tagged Nick Harkaway, post-apocalypse, Wodehouse, The Gone-Away World, John le Carre on May 31, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The Jorgmund Pipe is on fire, and Gonzo Lubitsch and his Haulage & Hazmat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company have been employed to deal it.
The Jorgmund Pipe - what it is, who created it, what it transports and why it exists at all - is the whole raison d’être of The Gone-Away World, the debut novel [...]
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Posted in Entries by Moira, Non-fiction: biography, Non-fiction: history, Non-fiction: sociology, tagged Bazalgette, Bell Rock, Brooklyn Bridge, Deborah Cadbury, Hoover Dam, Industrial Revolution, Seven Wonders on May 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Hands up everyone who’s ever really liked a television series, bought the TV tie-in book and then, having thumbed through it once, never looked at it again - or worse, found that it added nothing to the series and was in fact just money down the drain.
Yes. Thought so. A not uncommon [...]
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