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Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Get your diaries out!  Right, 29th September… I know it’s quite a bit away but flick through until you find it.  Take a Sharpie (or similar authoritative marker) and write “BUY Smoke and Bone by Laini...

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Invisible Fiends by Barry Hutchison

So, it’s over. And I am despondent, bereft, utterly lost. The Edinburgh Book Festival has ended for another year and I can’t help thinking I just didn’t manage to get to enough things.  I do this every...

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Crypt: The Gallows Curse by Andrew Hammond

To continue my Edinburgh Book Festival retrospective, I enjoyed a wonderful event by Andrew Hammond author of Crypt: The Gallows Curse.  Having been an English teacher, Andrew’s event was an...

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Whilst mulling over (actually panicking!) about what to write about this week I did a little search of my previous posts.  I was utterly astonished to discover I have never written about one of the...

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A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton

I have fallen in love.  Not just plain old ordinary comfy love, but utterly all encompassing, delirious love.  Naturally, when that sort of thing happens to me…it’s all over a book. A Boy and a Bear in...

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15 Days Without a Head by Dave Cousins

There are many things that make Children’s Bookselling an attractive career choice.  We have numerous skills and responsibilities that we take very seriously. However, above all in importance is Wine...

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The Other Life by Susanne Winnacker

Don’t judge a book by its cover.  While, undoubtedly this *should* be true, in reality we all do it.  Yes, even me. I therefore make a conscious effort to read the first few pages of every ARC that...

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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight has one of THE longest titles in the history of the world and shall henceforth be called SPOLAFS…a name coined on Twitter, helping a lot with reducing...

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I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan

There’s something quite wonderful about happening across a surprising book.  Nowadays I hear a lot about titles before I ever see them.  Hype is begun well before the book appears on my desk.  Whether...

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Vulpes Libris’ All Time Greats -The Top Ten: Number 5

  At Number 5 on our All Time Greats list is this storming piece from Eve.  Published on  March the 7th 2009, it attracted a massive 169 comments, many with capital letters well to the fore (and YES...

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Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough

After the slew of dystopian novels I took a break to review the fabulously funny Swim the Fly by Don Calame last time.  I’m not rushing back to apocalyptic end of the world scenarios yet, in fact I’m...

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Flowers in the Attic by Virgina Andrews

I have decided to start my own new mini series that I will post occasionally (and others may like to join in).  I’m going to call it Guilty Pleasures.  And number one on my list of Guilty Pleasures is...

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Until You’re Mine by Samantha Hayes

I know…I’m reviewing a grown-up book. I do sometimes read them. And this one is pretty extraordinary. I recently went on holiday to Mexico. It was very much a beach and relax holiday and I therefore...

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Heroic by Phil Earle

I had the huge pleasure of Chairing at the Edinburgh Book Festival again this year. It’s my absolute favourite thing to do…I just wish it was on all year round. (Although I’m not sure my liver would...

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Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough

After the slew of dystopian novels I took a break to review the fabulously funny Swim the Fly by Don Calame last time.  I’m not rushing back to apocalyptic end of the world scenarios yet, in fact I’m...

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Flowers in the Attic by Virgina Andrews

I have decided to start my own new mini series that I will post occasionally (and others may like to join in).  I’m going to call it Guilty Pleasures.  And number one on my list of Guilty Pleasures is...

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Blue by Lisa Glass

To begin, I’ll just let you know that I have a very close connection to this book. Not only is Lisa a fellow Book Fox, she has been my friend for a lot longer than the Bookfoxes have been around....

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The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks

The Carnegie Medal winner was announced this week as The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks. I watched the ceremony from the comfort of my office chair as it was Live Streamed on the internet. I’d read all...

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Picture Book Joy!

It’s been a while since I sat and read through my Picture Book shelf. (Yes, I have a Picture Book shelf, what of it?) There’s something so wonderful, even as a fully fledged grown-up, about reading...

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Skinny by Donna Cooner

I’m Chairing at the Edinburgh Book Festival again this year. YAY! And I have a lot, lot, lot of reading to do. I don’t seem to have read nearly as much these past twelve months as I’d thought so when I...

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