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Sally Nicholls’ first novel Ways to Live Forever is about Sam, an intelligent and likeable eleven-year-old boy who’s interested in science and dreams of riding in an airship… and also happens to be dying of leukaemia. The novel is structured as Sam’s [...]
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Julia Donaldson Interview (Part 2).
When Julia Donaldson, celebrated author of favourite children’s books like The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, A Squash and A Squeeze and The Snail and the Whale, answered our email questions for Julia Donaldson Interview (Part 1), we asked if we could meet up in a cafe to ask a few more. [...]
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In the first part of our two-part Julia Donaldson extravaganza for Vulpes Children’s Week, author of well-loved picture books “The Gruffalo”, “The Snail and The Whale”, “A Squash and a Squeeze” and many other childhood favourites, kindly answered our questions in this online interview. Please join us on Wednesday for Part II where Eve and [...]
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I picked up Enthusiasm as I was looking for reasons to avoid revising for exams - and the book turned out to be perfect procrastination material.
Fifteen-year-old Julie’s best friend, Ashleigh, is an Enthusiast: in other words, she’s always going through one craze or another. Sometimes it’s a particular band, sometimes Arthurian legends. This time around, [...]
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Sally Hinchcliffe, whose debut novel “Out of a Clear Sky” has just been chosen as Radio Five Live’s Book of the Month, talks to fellow writer, Roger Morris.
Out of a Clear Sky is a gripping and intelligently written psychological thriller, set in the perhaps unusual milieu of bird-watching. It tells the story of Manda, [...]
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Today we’re lucky enough to have an interview with Susan Barrett - a very talented writer of historical fiction. I first discovered Fixing Shadows on Leena’s recommendation and was very taken with its deft plotting, interesting characterisation and the impressive dreamlike quality of the narrative. Needless to say we are very excited to have Susan [...]
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Part of Scottish Literature Week: Writer, musician, journalist and…umm…ex-nuclear physicist (no, really), Doug Johnstone, talks to RosyB.
*Photo by Katie Cooke
You will know, by now, how here at Vulpes we love to play around with new ways of interviewing for the net. Crazy instant messager chats, long email interviews that take virtual place in airport departure [...]
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The Mathematics of Love, by Emma Darwin (published by Headline Review) has had terrific print and blogosphere reviews and since the author just happens to be a Bookfox, Lisa and Leena set to work with their best Paxman-esque questions.
For Emma’s thoughts on historical fiction, sex and transgression, read on…
For Jackie’s Vulpes Libris review of The [...]
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Lisa Glass talks to author Danny Rhodes about writing, weed and ASBOs.
Danny Rhodes’s gritty novel, Asboville (published by Maia Press) is the story of JB who is served with an ASBO and sent away from London to live in a caravan with his uncle at the seaside, where he faces a long summer painting beach [...]
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“It’s a book.”
“That’s not a book!”
“It most certainly is,” I say and slide the neon cover from the paperback. “Tah Dah! Book!”
“Woah!” No 1 son’s eyes light up in the reflection of the electric orange sleeve. “Can I have it?” I can hear the hunger in his voice.
I pass over the book and [...]
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