Episode 5: Revival
Gail, Hazel, Anna and Donna Coonan of Virago Modern Classics gather round the table to talk about giving new life to forgotten voices, and Helen Bourne heads for the Pyramids with a young Priscilla Napier.
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The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.
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In the Spring issue of Slightly Foxed
Laura Freeman perks up in Paris with Nancy Mitford • Adam Sisman joins the hunt for Hitler • Ann Kennedy Smith takes some linguistic instruction from the BBC • Michael Holroyd tracks down the real Frank Harris • Roger Hudson enjoys the view from Dove Cottage • Helen MacEwan shares Charlotte Brontë’s search for love • Derek Parker recalls sparky times at the Poetry Review • Posy Fallowfield takes to the lifeboats with Richard Hughes • Sam Leith catches up with an early crush, and much more besides . . .View issue -
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Come behind the scenes with the staff of Slightly Foxed to learn what makes this unusual literary magazine tick, meet some of its varied friends and contributors, and hear their personal recommendations for favourite and often forgotten books that have helped, haunted, informed or entertained them.
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For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve so far reissued favourite titles by BB and a number of Ronald Welch’s outstanding series of historical novels, in a handsome format with the original illustrations.
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Slightly Foxed Editions is a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them highly absorbing and irresistibly collectable.
The series includes memoirs by Edward Ardizzone, Gerald Durrell, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Graham Greene, Helene Hanff, Diana Holman-Hunt, Michael Holroyd, James Lees-Milne, Hilary Mantel, Gavin Maxwell, V. S. Pritchett, Dodie Smith and Rosemary Sutcliff, among others.Browse books
