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-...

Updated, with new research and over 100 revisionsTen years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and...

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...

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...

**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...

Her touch kills, his saves the dying.Are they fated, or forbidden?Tempest Dunlap loves romance novels, but she knows she’ll never have her own happily-ever-after. She is a sweatpants-wearing doula who homeschools her seven-year-old niece in suburban New Jersey. Unfortunately, she’s also a succubus: Every man she’s ever kissed has died. But Tempest is a good person who never intended to be a murderer, so she’s sworn off love forever....

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...

An anthology of poetry featuring neurodivergent writers.‘Neurodivergence’ is defined as a variance in cognitive or neurological function from that considered ‘typical’ or ‘normal’.This is poetry about the neurodivergent experience specifically by neurodivergent writers, providing a powerful and diverse representation, with positive, authentic and progressive portrayals.With specific sections and introductory notes about definitions, issues and soci...

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...

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...

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...