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All Those Moments by Rutger Hauer and Patrick Quinlan 26 Aug 2013 | 11:41 am
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, li...
Coming up on Vulpes Libris this week: 25 Aug 2013 | 08:04 pm
Summer – what there was of it in the UK (a fortnight’s heatwave and a thunderstorm) – is in retreat, autumn is fast approaching and the Foxes are slowly dragging themselves back from their various Aug...
People in a hot place 23 Aug 2013 | 12:26 pm
I pulled myself out of The Ringtone and the Drum feeling rather disorientated. I’d been reading it solidly for a day and a half on trains and in hotels in Germany, reading about West Africa where dayt...
From the Arctic to the Amazon 21 Aug 2013 | 05:30 am
In the last couple of months, I’ve read nonfiction books about both the Brazilian jungle and the Canadian Arctic, which led me to the idea of pairing them in a review. Not only are their temperate zon...
T S Eliot International Summer School 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 03:13 pm
By David Boyd 2013 was I think marked by several significant events: one of course was the passing of Eliot’s widow, Mrs. Valerie Eliot. Mrs. Eliot has clearly taken very great care indeed to leave b...
Coming Up This Week 18 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
We’re back! The Foxes have returned from a summer break full of hiking, beaches, festivals and just enjoying the sunshine. Of course, being Book Foxes, there was some reading as well and this week ref...
Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L Sayers – The Heart Of Rest, and beyond. 7 Aug 2013 | 01:13 pm
During VL’s Poetry Week 2013, Bookfox Moira wrote a piece full of affection and insight on the sonnet at the heart of Dorothy L Sayers’s novel Gaudy Night. Bookfoxes Kate and Hilary went into synchron...
Summertime, and … the Bookfoxes go on holiday. 4 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
One by one, Bookfoxes have been seen leaving the den, their red-spotted handkerchiefs packed with sunhats, SPF50, buckets and spades, and lots and lots of books to read, so we’re taking a summer break...
What Lies Within by Tom Vowler 2 Aug 2013 | 10:55 am
(With a GIVEAWAY – see the end of the review for details.) We all lie, whether we admit it or not. We lie to ourselves in self preservation or self-justification, we lie by omission – choosing to sta...
An Actor’s Lament – A Book Fox at the Edinburgh Fringe … 1 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
Photo credit: Laura Donaldson We interrupt normal service to bring you a shameless, bare-faced plug for one of our own. We’re as nervous as first-time parents today because Jay Benedict is at the E...
