Coming Up This Week
Oops, it turns out we claimed it was July last week. The year is just running away with the foxes, isn’t it? Well, with something of H.G. Wells about us, … Continue reading
Death in Profile by Guy Fraser-Sampson
Full disclosure from the off: I am longstanding blogging friends with the author of this book, and also an admirer of his earlier fiction (sequels to E.F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia … Continue reading
Coming Up on Vulpes Libris
Erm, where did the summer come from? Suddenly – in Oxford, at least – it’s turned into a blaze of sunshine and summeriness. Now this, of course, is an excuse … Continue reading
Young Man With a Horn by Dorothy Baker
Once I’d decided that Young Man With a Horn by Dorothy Baker would be one of the books I read for the 1938 Club, I made a point of not reading … Continue reading
How quirky is too quirky?
How quirky is too quirky? It’s a tricky question, and one that every reader inevitably has to decide for themselves. Some of us might stay comfortably away from anything that … Continue reading
Coming Up This Week on Vulpes Libris
Is that spring in the air? Is it? Well, no, probably not. That’s not stopping book fox Simon burrowing himself away in Shropshire for a long weekend, just when he was … Continue reading
Renishaw Hall: the Story of the Sitwells by Desmond Seward
Over Christmas, I had the treat of reading Renishaw Hall by Desmond Seward, which I was lucky enough to receive as a review copy from a PR lady who wisely knew … Continue reading
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I wasn’t particularly excited when my book group suggested that we read Americanah (2013) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; I had heard good things about it, but its length and modernity were … Continue reading
Better Than Life by Daniel Pennac
I love books about books, and particularly books about reading. I seem to be on rather a run of them at the moment, and quite a few of them seem … Continue reading
Coming Up This Week
Is it Christmas yet? Well, is it? (No, it’s not.) But what it is is a lovely November week filled with the usual wide range of Vulpes Libris literary tastes. We’ve … Continue reading
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel by Nicola Humble
If you were to ask me which academic book was most influential in the writing of my doctoral thesis, I shouldn’t hesitate for a moment: it is undoubtedly Nicola Humble’s … Continue reading
Something Childish by Katherine Mansfield
This post is part of the 1924 Club, which I’m co-organising over at my blog Stuck in a Book – along with Karen, I’m asking people to read books published … Continue reading
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
I tend to avoid the zeitgeisty novels that everyone is reading on the train, mostly because I’m happier buried among the older novels of yesteryear that are already overflowing from … Continue reading
Ferney by James Long
I was recommended Ferney (1998) by James Long and awfully long time ago by my friend Carol, and was lucky enough to get a copy given to me by my friend … Continue reading
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