**THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD.'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES'Laugh out loud' MARTIN PARR'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIFER SAUNDERS'An entertaining, clever book' TELEGRAPH*WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY GRAYSON PERRY***The unofficial guidebook to the English national character by anthropologist Kate Fox.From the class system to conversation etiquett...

A missing Lakota girl. A gutsy woman sheriff. Lies. Secrets. Deception.When a Lakota girl goes missing from the rez, no one cares...except Sheriff Kate Fox.After dodging her meddling family’s efforts to pair her off, Kate is settling into single life as Grand County Sheriff…until Deputy Kyle Red Owl’s sister disappears. Shocked by the harsh realities of rez life, and after locking horns with a Lakota-hating sheriff, end-of-world preppers, and a greedy liquor store owner, Ka...

Hilarious, insightful and endlessly entertaining, discover the unspoken rules of English behaviourThe unofficial guidebook to the English national character by anthropologist Kate Fox.From the class system to conversation etiquette, Kate Fox picks apart and exposes the bizarre codes of behaviour that the English unconsciously obey.If you are English, this book will make you re-examine everything you take for granted. And if you aren't English, it wi...

From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden.From Cartimandua, the forgotten Iron Age Queen of the North, to Woodbine-smoking football player Lily Parr, Kate with her trademark wit and sense of fun, shows how these astonishing trailblazers laid the ground for modern stars from V...

From poet Kate Fox comes a book for everyone who knew the famous silhouette of the tree that stood at Sycamore Gap.For those who took shelter, saw its branches against the sky or heard the leaves dance; for all the picnics next to it and the proposals under it. For anyone who feels the strength of silent roots and the quiet promise of the turning year. For any of us who measure time in rings and wait for green leaves to grow again.For everyone who felt a lo...

Kate Fox's new collection The Oscillations explores distance and isolation in the age of the pandemic, refracted through the lenses of neurodiversity and trauma in poems that are bold, often frank and funny. Dazzling and open-hearted poems of self-discovery.Responding to a world that has been broken by the pandemic into a 'before' and 'after'. A strong voice sings of what it means to be many things at once - autistic, creative, northern, a woman. Fox mea...

From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden.From Cartimandua, the forgotten Iron Age Queen of the North, to Woodbine-smoking football player Lily Parr, Kate with her trademark wit and sense of fun, shows how these astonishing trailblazers laid the ground for modern stars from V...

Questions have arisen about the celebrated Fernwood Museum of Art's most recent acquisition: a priceless vase with a dubious origin. After digging deeper to find answers, two exhibition curators receive an anonymous threat; a letter telling them to leave the vase's past buried. Those curators just happen to be the parents of clever twelve year old Emmalene Grey. When her parents find themselves in imminent danger, she and her gutsy older sister Caroline set out to solve the greatest myster...

Click the 'Extracts' tab above to read our exclusive interview with Kate Fox, plus sample poems from the book. Fox Populi takes poetry on a hilarious, Creature Comforts-style journey through the crackly airwaves of contemporary culture. Radio-mic in hand, Kate Fox listens in on comedians and psychiatrists, Great North runners and nutters, and the staff of a call centre in modern-day Tynemouth. Herself a familiar voice on BBC TV and radio, this first full-...

Homeland Security took her son. She'll risk everything to get him back...When three-year-old Ricardo Garcia is wrenched away from his uncle and placed in an unaccompanied minor shelter at the US border, his mother Carmelina is half a world away in El Salvador.A day later, she's on the road north determined to be reunited with her son. Traveling with her infant daughter, she'll have to rely on her wits and the kindness of strangers to reach her destination s...

It is generally assumed that anthropologists do their research in remote and uncomfortable parts of the world--places with monsoons, mud huts, and malaria. In this volume, social anthropologist Kate Fox has taken on an altogether more enjoyable assignment, the study of the arcane world of British horseracing. For Fox, field research meant wandering around racetracks in a pink hat and high heels (standard tribal costume) rather than braving killer insects and primitive sanitation. Instead o...

This Side of Perfect is Book Two of the Kate Fox Series, set in a small coastal town of Maine. The story begins the characters' lives one year later, at a time when Kate thought she had everything she wanted and life was good.Then, odd conversations, mysterious notes, and a nosy neighbor make her question her world, before that which she loves most is taken away.How far will Kate go to get it all back? Drama, suspense, and mystery make up the second story in the Ka...