Ebooks saved my life and other virtual musings

Ok, I admit it – the title above is just a tad exaggerated (for poetic effect, you know), but it’s perfectly true to say ebooks have, if not saved my writing career (I don’t have one: it’s my vocation. My career is as a University PA) then at least given it a thoroughly delightful and [...]

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The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Hanna Heath is an Australian book conservator who is called to war torn Bosnia in 1996 to work on the Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book that has survived for hundreds of years. Through her work on the book she meets Ozren Karamen who saved the book during heavy shelling. She sets to work on [...]

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A Bookish Family

Today we’re joined by guest writer Chris Harding, with this lovely piece about her family and their crucial influence on her lifelong relationship with books. ~~~:o:~~~ I come from a bookish family.  My maternal grandmother ran away from her Norwegian home and arrived in England in 1915, accompanied only by a trunk full of books. [...]

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Confessions of an inconsistent booklover

Aliya Whiteley’s enjoyable soapbox, “Heads Up, Spines Out” triggered the same impulse in me which – I suspect – affected many of its readers.  I immediately looked at my own bookshelves and started wondering what they say about me: specifically, the motley collection of books housed in my living room (where I tend to work, [...]

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Words from a Glass Bubble by Vanessa Gebbie: Just add salt …

I’ve been wanting to read this short story collection for a while, as I’ve heard good things about it from a variety of sources, in spite of the fact that I found the cover rather too sickly for my taste (and far too “sweet” for the contents as it turned out, thank goodness). I have [...]

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Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Part of Bohemian Week. I’m a huge fan of Jerry Spinelli (you’ll find I’ve already reviewed Eggs) and he’s my daughters favourite author.  Actually Eggs would also be a pretty good book to review in Boho week but I’m taking the opportunity to tell you about another one which fits nicely into this category – [...]

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The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd

I was at first attracted to this book by its cover – it looks like it’s been made out of a brown paper bag.  The whole book is actually made from 100% recycled material, which conforms well to the story written on the pages.  Set in the year 2015 (okay, slightly obvious from the title!) [...]

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Happy Birthday to Us!

Vulpes Libris is one year old today! Time flies! The first post appeared on Vulpes Libris on the 18th October 2007 and was by Leena, our esteemed and sorely missed leader. So, in honour of our birthday we thought we’d each pick a few of our favourite pieces from the past year to share and [...]

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Raz Godelnik from Eco-Libris talks about the future of the book.

I’m co-founder and CEO of Eco-Libris, but first and foremost I’m the son of a librarian. Growing up in a house full of books and spending many hours in the public library where my mom worked, shaped my love of books, which eventually also brought me to start Eco-Libris with few great colleagues in a [...]

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Interview with Keith Gray

I recently reviewed the fantastic Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray which you can find HERE.  Never being one to shirk my responsibility to bring you as much detail as I possibly can about the books I love, I asked Keith if he would have a wee chat with me.  He said yes.  So here it [...]

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