Dear SF Readers Everywhere
We’re sure you don’t need us to remind you that Christmas is coming, but at the Slightly Foxed office here it’s something that’s very much on our minds. Copies of our winter Slightly Foxed Edition, Constance Tomkinson’s Les Girls, her deliciously funny account of her life as a chorus girl in the 1930s, are stacked invitingly ready for dispatch, as are copies of Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s clever new novella set in an outer London parish, Love Divine, published this month and selling like hotcakes. Likewise packs of this year’s Slightly Foxed Christmas cards, two lovely new foxy designs by our illustrator Ella Balaam. And, of course, copies of the winter issue of Slightly Foxed itself, which is full of lively writing and original book recommendations. In other words a cornucopia of good things for the Christmas season and the dark months to come.
So, just a wave to say (once again) that every new subscription and indeed every renewed subscription to Slightly Foxed, every purchase of a book or a Christmas card, makes a difference, especially at a time when life for small businesses like ours feels very challenging. We know it feels challenging for many of you our readers too, which makes us doubly grateful for your loyalty. In a way we like to think of a subscription to Slightly Foxed as both an economy and an aid to good health. The kind of books featured in SF are mostly available second-hand, and research shows (who’d have thought it?) that people who read tend to hold on to their marbles. So do remember us when you’re doing your Christmas shopping. A subscription to Slightly Foxed makes a wonderfully satisfying gift, a promise of sanity, good humour and entertainment in an increasingly worrying world.
With our very best wishes
Gail Pirkis & Hazel Wood
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