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It is the time for home . . .

It is the time for home . . .

Season’s greetings to you all from SF HQ, where we’re warming mince pies, stock-taking and tidying the office as we prepare to shut up shop for the Christmas break. The last orders for the year have now been dispatched and the office will be closed from 3pm this afternoon until 9.30am on Thursday 4 January.

20th December 2023

‘Thank you for contributing to the perpetuation of beautiful literature. . .’

‘I was delighted to receive the latest magazine of Slighted Foxed and a blue slipcase today. Everything was delicately wrapped with a pretty ribbon and a lovely bookmark by illustrator Rosie Sanders. Thank you so much! I renewed my subscription…

- M. Belabed, Belgium

Historical Adventure Novels for the Young at Heart | Last Ronald Welch Sets Remaining

Historical Adventure Novels for the Young at Heart | Last Ronald Welch Sets Remaining

Greetings from Hoxton Square where a rootle through the stock and stationery cupboards in search of more wrapping paper has revealed that we are down to our last 20 sets of Ronald Welch’s gripping historical adventure novels for children. And so, herewith, a hastily thrown-together email from the bookish elves here at Foxed HQ to let you know that if you’ve been thinking of investing in a set as a present for a young-at-heart reader, with stocks dwindling and the last recommended posting dates for Christmas fast approaching, now would be a good moment to do so.

Last orders, please | Books, goods & gifts from Slightly Foxed

Last orders, please | Books, goods & gifts from Slightly Foxed

Greetings from Slightly Foxed, where the last few post bags of 2023 are filling up and we’ve booked in our last collections with our very hard-working but always very jolly postman.

13th December 2023

‘You have no idea how much you’ve broadened my horizons . . .’

‘SF is such a delight. You have no idea how much you’ve broadened my horizons and provided me with such gems of writing, both within and beyond the magazine. Thank you for all you do and keep up the amazing…

- J. Reardon, UK

Produced by people who love books, for people who love books | Slightly Foxed Editions

Produced by people who love books, for people who love books | Slightly Foxed Editions

Greetings from Slightly Foxed HQ, where we’re busily packing up all manner of bookish treats for readers far and wide and cheerily navigating our way through a developing obstacle course of packing materials, parcels and post bags. There’s still time for us to help with gifts for fellow bookworms – or, indeed, a well-deserved treat for yourself – and where better to find inspiration than in our series of Slightly Foxed Editions.

‘A great present for those who love books . . . ’

‘A great present for those who love books . . . ’

Warm wishes from Hoxton Square where the SF office is a hive of activity, packing up great piles of the quarterly magazine, books and goods and sending them out to bring festive cheer to readers old and new around the world.

Winter greetings from Slightly Foxed HQ

Winter greetings from Slightly Foxed HQ

Greetings from the Slightly Foxed office where we’re all feeling rather festive. As is customary at this time of year we’re surrounded by towers of boxes, reams of smart brown wrapping paper and rolls of handsome grey and cream ribbon bearing little running foxes, as we go about the merry business of packing up parcels of books, magazines, notebooks, bags, bookplates, cards and more besides, to be sent off to readers around the world.

‘Not just beautiful books, but so brilliantly chosen’ | Plain Foxed Editions | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

‘Not just beautiful books, but so brilliantly chosen’ | Plain Foxed Editions | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

‘For Christmas someone gave me a small red-leather bound copy of Coriolanus (why?) which I proudly carried about with me for weeks, though unable to make head or tail of it. If anyone, on seeing it, asked me if I liked it…

Intellectual Refreshment | New this Winter from Slightly Foxed

Intellectual Refreshment | New this Winter from Slightly Foxed

‘I may be a long way from you all but I am dependent on Slightly Foxed for intellectual refreshment and for opening new paths, either to books unknown to me or to old favourites. All my good wishes for your continued successes!’ C. Stelzer, Arizona, USA Greetings, dear readers, from Slightly Foxed HQ. We’re delighted to report that the new winter issue of Slightly Foxed has now left the printing press at Smith Settle and should arrive with readers in the UK in the coming days and elsewhere over the next few weeks. We do hope it brings much reading pleasure.

Pig Ignorant | New from the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Pig Ignorant | New from the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

‘I believe we all have a certain time in our lives that we’re good at. I wasn’t good at being a child.’ The epigraph from Victoria Wood to this endearingly honest memoir says it all. In it the best-selling children’s writer Nicholas Fisk lays bare his teenage soul as he beckons us into the world of late 1930s suburbia where he grew up.

Look Back with Love | Chapter IX: ‘At Mrs North’s’

Look Back with Love | Chapter IX: ‘At Mrs North’s’

Some weeks before the end of the term my mother had said I had now brought home enough embroidered animals and paper mats and would I please tell my teacher that I was expected to be able to read by…

A Calendar of Covers for 2024 | Celebrating 20 years of Slightly Foxed

A Calendar of Covers for 2024 | Celebrating 20 years of Slightly Foxed

Our special anniversary Slightly Foxed 2024 Wall Calendar is here, featuring a selection of readers’ favourite Slightly Foxed cover artwork from the past 20 years. We have just published the 80th issue of Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly and in March 2024 Slightly Foxed will be celebrating its 20th year and and we’ve decided to mark the occasion with an anniversary calendar featuring some more of the seasonal Slightly Foxed covers that readers enjoy so much. It’s a handsome, spiral-bound decorative wall calendar printed on sturdy paper with a board backing, and we feel it will raise the spirits and look good in any room. It would make a charming present for anyone who loves Slightly Foxed, or indeed for anyone who hasn’t yet come across it.

Jan Morris | Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Jan Morris | Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. As the weather grows colder and brown leaves litter the ground here in Hoxton Square, we find ourselves thinking of all the far-flung places we could be transported to by the words of the great travel writers.

A Literary Love Affair | 84, Charing Cross Road | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

A Literary Love Affair | 84, Charing Cross Road | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

In the drab and traumatized post-war London of 1949, Marks & Co., second-hand and antiquarian booksellers of 84, Charing Cross Road, received an enquiry from a Miss Helene Hanff of New York City. It was not the kind of letter they were accustomed to receiving, and it was one that would make history.

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 80, James Nunn, ‘Now We Are 20’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 80, James Nunn, ‘Now We Are 20’

James Nunn was born in Yorkshire in 1973 and now lives in Bath. He is a self-taught artist. After an undergraduate degree and a Masters in contemporary poetry at the University of Manchester, he worked for many years as a…

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