From us to you …

Well that’s it from us for 2009 …
After a wild party in which sausages on sticks, fairy cakes and ginger beer will doubtless feature heavily (cough) we’re all retreating to our various foxholes for the festive season.
We regroup on Sunday the 3rd of January with our customary trailer for the coming attractions – but I [...]

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Today’s post: Apologies

Good Kirsty:  Wait, what are we doing here?  Today isn’t our day.
Bad Kirsty:  We’re apologising.  Due to unforeseen circumstances, you see, we won’t be hearing from guest writer David about The Stork Caliph today.
GK:  We have no Stork Caliph?
BK:  Yes, we have no Stork Caliph.  We have no Stork Caliph today!
GK: *headdesk*
BK:  So what do we [...]

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The Feathers of Death, by Simon Raven

Simon Raven is out of fashion now – in that trough of neglect where authors and their works languish for a while after they die (he died in 2001). But he was a legendary figure in his lifetime – a rebarbative character described as ‘[combining] elements of Flashman, Waugh’s Captain Grimes and the Earl of [...]

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Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It’s highly unlikely that I will be able to say anything about this book that hasn’t been said before and better. I am relatively new to Dickens, having never studied any of his works at school or college and I have to confess that it was probably the wonderful BBC dramatisation of Bleak House [...]

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Next week on Vulpes Libris …

It’s Advent*  – but anyone hoping that we were going to go all fuzzy and seasonal and ‘chestnuts roasting on an open fire’-y  before we dispersed to our separate bolt-holes for Christmas, is going to be mightily disappointed.  We have precisely two – count’ em – TWO, seasonal pieces this week.  Other than that, it’s [...]

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Into the Twilight Zone

Article by Guest Reviewer, Samantha Tonge.
I first entered the Twilight Zone three weeks ago, when my husband went away on business. It was a long time coming. For a year or two my early teen daughter has been pushing me to read Stephenie Meyer’s series of books. Unlike many of her friends who have simply [...]

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Playing with the Grown-ups by Sophie Dahl

The blurb describes this book as a “coming-of-age” story about Kitty, whose mother Marina is beautiful on an epic scale. Yes, it is about growing up and it takes in all that growing up means – family, love, loss, struggle – at times far more extreme than my experience! And at the very centre of [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris

Lots of enthusiastic Foxes this week, bringing you news of books they’ve really loved reading.
We’ve been dying to read Part 2 of Lisa’s Autumn Favourites, and here it is, just squeaking into Autumn on a technicality (it hasn’t snowed yet where I live). And on Friday, visiting Fox Samantha Tonge, one of our regular [...]

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The Nebuly Coat, by John Meade Falkner

If you have read a book by John Meade Falkner, the chances are it is Moonfleet, that stirring tale of smuggling and growing up. Or else, you’ll have seen the film, on a wet Saturday afternoon, and marvelled that someone as handsome as Stewart Granger could ever have lived. Apart from Moonfleet, Falkner wrote [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris

As Vulpes Libris heads into December, we’re all about great stories for an evening by the fire.  We have not one but two inheritance mysteries, a time travelling tsar and a lyrical love story.  Plus, Bookfox Jackie gives us her views on bookstores, and Kirsty talks to Michael Ng in the latest Interview with a [...]

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