Ninepins by Rosy Thornton

Disclaimer: Rosy Thornton (who is a friend as well as a favourite novelist) kindly offered the Bookfox collective a review copy of Ninepins on its release. I was the lucky Fox who was quick enough off the mark to secure it. With that said, on to the review. I knew the title of Rosy Thornton’s [...]

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Coming Up this week (and beyond) on Vulpes Libris …

The British countryside is well to the fore on Vulpes Libris this week.  As April turns tempestuosly into May and drought orders rub shoulders with flood warnings, the Book Foxes’ fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, hate and ebooks. Oh, and someone has let that appalling creature with the knee-length purple boots back in [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris…

TALKING BOOKS: AUDIOBOOK MONTH ON VULPES LIBRIS – WEEK THREE We hope you’re still enjoying our audiobooks theme as we have another two weeks of it remaining, hip hip hooray! This week our highlights include interviews with some VERY well known audiobook narrators and a podcast with Cargo Publishing. Plus we have reviews of various [...]

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The Tapestry of Love, by Rosy Thornton

Rosy Thornton’s new novel, The Tapestry of Love, starts with an arresting scene: its heroine, Catherine, is marooned in her car in the midst of a sea of sheep. They are going one way; she was going the other, until they engulfed her. It is the Autumn transhumance, the age old movement of flocks from [...]

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Coming up on Vulpes Libris – week beginning 26th July 2010

Always on the lookout for the new, the good and the very, very readable, sometimes all at once, this week the Foxes (most of whom are as cute as this) bring you a variety of strong voices writing fiction, fact and opinion. On Monday Jackie unravels The Pattern in the Carpet, a memoir and history [...]

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Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton

When you pick up a book expecting it to be one thing and it then turns out to be something else entirely – it can be a very disconcerting experience.   I was well into Chapter Three of Crossed Wires before I realized that, contrary to appearances (for which read ‘seriously pink cover’), it wasn’t a [...]

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Thursday Soapbox. Rosy Thornton: Books Should be Books!

On the Soapbox this week, writer of the political romantic comedy More Than Love Letters and campus novel Hearts and Minds, Rosy Thornton, looks at the way we categorise books. *Thanks to Natmandu on Flickr for this picture of a beautifully wrapped book, from the Slightly Foxed Bookshop in New Zealand. Books Should Be Books! [...]

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On Vulpes this Coming Week

We have a great mixed week coming up on Vulpes. Monday Jackie reviews Rat, wherein Jerry Langton answers the question of whether the ubiquitous rodents are cute or craven. Tuesday Mary looks at The Known World, the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner by Edward P. Jones that “explores an oft-neglected chapter of American history, the world [...]

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Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton (More Than Just a Review)

Plot Synopsis and Overview Television-man and Desmond Lynam lookalike James Rycarte arrives for his new job: as “Mistress” of an all-woman’s Cambridge college, the fictitious St Radegunds. Here he finds himself beset by problems: the library is falling down, the students are on strike, research stipends cut, and he is swamped by divided committees where [...]

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Last-Minute Christmas Shopping and Other Stories

I always buy books as Christmas presents. It probably makes me predictable and dull (not to mention the Least Favourite Aunt), but I see it as a sacred duty. I also like to compare notes with others who do the same, and much to my delight other bloggers have been recommending books as Christmas presents [...]

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