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2017

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Let’s celebrate the migrant authors of English literature original ↗

20 Feb 2017

I Am Legend original ↗

16 Feb 2017

Saki’s When William Came original ↗

13 Feb 2017

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home original ↗

9 Feb 2017

John Buchan and The Power-House original ↗

6 Feb 2017

Now Posting on Vulpes Libris: Giovanni’s Room original ↗

3 Feb 2017

Bertie Wodehouse’s socks and spats original ↗

1 Feb 2017

E C Bentley and Trent’s Last Case original ↗

30 Jan 2017

Glyn Maxwell Drinks With Dead Poets original ↗

26 Jan 2017

A working girl in New York: Louisa M Alcott’s Good Wives original ↗

23 Jan 2017

When is poetry bad? Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry original ↗

20 Jan 2017

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: a really terrible biography original ↗

18 Jan 2017

The Rudyard Kipling novel no-one ever remembers: The Naulahka original ↗

16 Jan 2017

Microbes are out there: Aliens, ed. Jim Al-Khalili original ↗

12 Jan 2017

Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer original ↗

9 Jan 2017

A little recap: C L Moore and Anne McCaffrey original ↗

4 Jan 2017

2016

Seven duds for seven dustbins: More books to avoid original ↗

29 Dec 2016

How (not to) market your book original ↗

22 Dec 2016

What I hope to read at Christmas original ↗

15 Dec 2016

Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon original ↗

8 Dec 2016

Newspapers, lies, magic and responsibility: Terry Pratchett and The Truth original ↗

5 Dec 2016

Science fiction and speculative fiction from Iraq original ↗

2 Dec 2016

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Nine Scottish novels for St Andrew’s Night original ↗

30 Nov 2016

Country journalism: Monica Dickens’ My Turn to Make the Tea original ↗

28 Nov 2016

More magic in London: Ben Aaronovitch’s The Hanging Tree original ↗

24 Nov 2016

Romping through the heather: John Buchan’s Castle Gay original ↗

21 Nov 2016

The Story of Maha, by Sumayya Lee original ↗

17 Nov 2016

1915 New York newspapers: P G Wodehouse’s Psmith Journalist original ↗

14 Nov 2016

Do you believe what the newspapers say? The Inheritors, by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Hueffer original ↗

10 Nov 2016

Bring on the beshi: C J Cherryh’s Hammerfall original ↗

7 Nov 2016

Rachel Ferguson’s A Footman for the Peacock: a hatchet job original ↗

3 Nov 2016

Submission and cross-dressing: Tennyson’s The Princess original ↗

31 Oct 2016

Choosing to remain autistic: Elizabeth Moon’s Speed of Dark original ↗

27 Oct 2016

Epic Poems You’ve Never Read 4: Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock original ↗

24 Oct 2016

Oh how we laughed: Cyril Connolly’s The Condemned Playground original ↗

20 Oct 2016

Epic Poems You’ve Never Read 3: John Milton’s Paradise Lost original ↗

17 Oct 2016

The 1947 Club: Mistress Masham’s Repose by T H White original ↗

13 Oct 2016

The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser original ↗

10 Oct 2016

The Early Life of James McBey: An Autobiography original ↗

6 Oct 2016

Epic Poems You’ve Never Read: Beowulf’s Anglo-Saxon heroics original ↗

3 Oct 2016

Blood, glass, dust: Frances Faviell’s A Chelsea Concerto original ↗

30 Sept 2016

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: The Life of Hilda Matheson, OBE original ↗

28 Sept 2016

Gender performativity at its best: Georgette Heyer’s The Masqueraders original ↗

26 Sept 2016

Sorrow and anger: Books I couldn’t finish or wished I hadn’t started original ↗

22 Sept 2016

Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel original ↗

19 Sept 2016

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt original ↗

16 Sept 2016

Looking into the gutter: Jean Rhys’ After Leaving Mr Mackenzie original ↗

15 Sept 2016

Broadswords in the heather: John Buchan’s John Burnet of Barns original ↗

12 Sept 2016

Three Moroccan marriages: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s About My Mother original ↗

8 Sept 2016

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Frank Fraser Darling’s Island Years, Island Farm original ↗

6 Sept 2016

Antony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda original ↗

5 Sept 2016

The child of drunken arguments: Tracy Tynan’s Wear and Tear. The Threads of My Life original ↗

1 Sept 2016

Great swashbuckling: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped original ↗

29 Aug 2016

The roar of the greasepaint: Clemence Dane’s Broome Stages original ↗

26 Aug 2016

Peculiar stories: Annelies Verbeke’s Thirty Days original ↗

24 Aug 2016

Jemisin, Leckie, Letters to Tiptree: praise ye them original ↗

21 Aug 2016

Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book original ↗

18 Aug 2016

Wild swimming for pleasure: Roger Deakin’s Waterlog original ↗

15 Aug 2016

Stone stories: N K Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate original ↗

11 Aug 2016

Hand me a petrel: Robert Atkinson’s Island-Going original ↗

8 Aug 2016

Women in Translation: Colette’s Gigi, and The Cat original ↗

4 Aug 2016

Corncrakes on Coll: Kathleen Jamie’s Findings original ↗

1 Aug 2016

Not another post-apocalyptic western: Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow original ↗

28 Jul 2016

Oliver Rackham’s The History of the Countryside original ↗

25 Jul 2016

Greer Gilman’s Cloud and Ashes: An Interim Reading original ↗

21 Jul 2016

Hearty and manly: Robert Gibbings’ Sweet Thames Run Softly original ↗

18 Jul 2016

Lemon in the sugar: Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine original ↗

14 Jul 2016

Daughter of Delafield: R M Dashwood’s Provincial Daughter original ↗

11 Jul 2016

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl original ↗

8 Jul 2016

Barbara Pym’s Some Tame Gazelle original ↗

5 Jul 2016

Body and mind enhancement in Samuel Delaney’s Babel-17 original ↗

30 Jun 2016

Glorious snobbery at village scale: E F Benson’s Queen Lucia original ↗

27 Jun 2016

Jennifer Morag Henderson, Josephine Tey: A Life original ↗

24 Jun 2016

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: The amazing, pregnant Spiderwoman original ↗

22 Jun 2016

Angela Thirkell’s Summer Half original ↗

20 Jun 2016

So much unhappy beauty: Robin Hyde’s The Godwits Fly original ↗

16 Jun 2016

Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm original ↗

13 Jun 2016

Dark whimsy: Mr Powys’ Mr Weston and Mr Peake’s Mr Pye original ↗

10 Jun 2016

E M Delafield’s The Diary of a Provincial Lady original ↗

7 Jun 2016

N K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season original ↗

3 Jun 2016

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Barbara Pym’s Jane and Prudence original ↗

1 Jun 2016

Woman causes Oxford mayhem: Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson original ↗

29 May 2016

Violent objections to the outdoor life: Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Caravaners original ↗

27 May 2016

First Light for Alan Garner original ↗

23 May 2016

The end of Pilgrimage: Dorothy Richardson’s Dimple Hill, and March Moonlight original ↗

20 May 2016

Dorothy Richardson’s Dawn’s Left Hand, and Clear Horizon original ↗

19 May 2016

Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap, and Oberland original ↗

18 May 2016

Dorothy Richardson’s Deadlock, and Revolving Lights original ↗

17 May 2016

Reading Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage original ↗

16 May 2016

Beginning a festival of Dorothy Richardson: The Tunnel, and Interim original ↗

13 May 2016

Angela Thirkell in print original ↗

12 May 2016

Ian Sales, All That Outer Space Allows original ↗

11 May 2016

Ngaio Marsh’s Death in a White Tie original ↗

9 May 2016

Greer Gilman’s Jonsonian fantasies original ↗

6 May 2016

Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn original ↗

4 May 2016

Josephine Tey’s Miss Pym Disposes original ↗

2 May 2016

London calling: Kate Griffin’s A Madness of Angels original ↗

29 Apr 2016

Bad drugs and fast cars: Dorothy L Sayers’ Murder Must Advertise original ↗

26 Apr 2016

Letters to Tiptree: homage to a ground-breaking author original ↗

22 Apr 2016

T H White’s Darkness at Pemberley original ↗

20 Apr 2016