Michael Holroyd: Spring Launch Party
Tuesday 3 March 2015
All readers are invited to join us at our bookshop to celebrate the launch of Slightly Foxed Edition No. 29: Basil Street Blues by Michael Holroyd.
Welcome to a world of reading . . .
Companionable and unstuffy, each quarter Slightly Foxed offers 96 entertainingly written and elegantly illustrated pages of personal recommendations for books that have influenced, touched or amused the people who write about them. It’s an eclectic mix, covering all the main categories of fiction and non-fiction, and our contributors are an eclectic bunch too. As well as pieces by well-known authors and journalists, we feature articles from writers you’ve probably never heard of, whose lives are lived outside the literary world, but who write equally thoughtfully and entertainingly.
We’ve been going for over ten years now, and readers frequently tell us we’ve filled a gap in their lives, widening their horizons by introducing them to authors they’ve not previously come across, or reintroducing them to old favourites. Coming up, there’ll be pieces on authors as diverse as Jonathan Coe, Wilkie Collins, Penelope Fitzgerald, Helene Hanff, Christopher Isherwood, Alison Lurie, Gavin Maxwell, J. B. Priestley, Jean Rhys, Dorothy L. Sayers, Leo Tolstoy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut and Evelyn Waugh, as well as forgotten or unusual names you’re unlikely to have come across.
Slightly Foxed is about discovery and the sheer enjoyment of reading, a wonderful bran-tub of personal experiences you’re invited to share. It’s a pleasure to hold and to look at too, printed on fine cream paper and bound in a neat A5 format by our Yorkshire craftsmen printers. To most of our readers it’s more than just a magazine. It’s an introduction to a circle of like-minded people for whom reading is an essential part of life. So why not give Slightly Foxed a try, or buy a subscription as a gift for a friend or relative who loves books? You’ll be in good company.
Our readers write . . .
‘Quiet on the ranks this time of year, what we London cabbies call the kipper season – I’m prepared!’ Twitter
Our readers write . . .
‘Probably the most rewarding £40 I will spend this year.’
‘Pocket-sized little chunks of perfection’
‘A memoir written in the late 1920s and recently republished in the beautiful Slightly Foxed Paperback series. The book tells of Bell’s move, at 20 years old, from bohemian Battersea to a small farm in Suffolk. Bell is a favourite of mine, and his nature writing is immediately transporting. It doesn’t hurt, either, that the Slightly Foxed Paperbacks, pocket-sized little chunks of perfection, are the most beautifully made paperbacks I’ve ever had the pleasure to own. They’re made by a traditional small press in Yorkshire to standards that make reading on a device seem like the most depressing possible compromise.’ On Adrian Bell’s Corduroy
‘Sparky and independent’
James Naughtie
‘Absolutely beautifully produced.’
