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Stars in His Eyes | Giles Smith’s Lost in Music | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Stars in His Eyes | Giles Smith’s Lost in Music | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. We’ve recently returned from an extraordinarily informative and rewarding trip to visit our printers, Smith Settle, in Yorkshire, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. You can see a little of the printing and bookbinding process behind the scenes at Smith Settle in video form on the Slightly Foxed website thanks to Glen Milner and the Daily Telegraph.

Hermione Ranfurly’s To War with Whitaker | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Hermione Ranfurly’s To War with Whitaker | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly and her husband Dan had been married for less than a year when he was called up in September 1939. Their characterful cook-butler Whitaker volunteered to go with him, but Yeomanry rules decreed that though officers could take their servants to war they could not take their wives.

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Wolf Hall for kids | Why Ronald Welch’s novels will help your children fall in love with history

Wolf Hall for kids | Why Ronald Welch’s novels will help your children fall in love with history

‘Ronald Welch, a tank commander turned schoolmaster, is one of the 20th century’s most underrated children’s writers . . . Like Hilary Mantel, he understood that what makes a lost epoch stick in your mind is not the dates but the details.’ Telegraph Ronald Welch’s Carey novels follow the fortunes of the same family from their involvement in the Crusades to their service in the First World War and each of these books proves Welch to be a master of the precise detail that brings history alive for younger readers. ‘They are less subtle than the novels of his brilliant contemporary Rosemary Sutcliff, with her outcast, marginal character heroes,’ observes Iona McLaren in her review our Slightly Foxed Cubs editions for the Telegraph, ‘but Welch makes up for it in guilty pleasure. Through the twistiest of plots, Welch’s hero typically discovers himself to be the best fighter of his generation, who ends up brushing with the Big Names of the period, fixed in the reader’s mind for all time with memorable pen portraits’.

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Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Hoxton Square where the skies are grey and it seems that summer might have been and gone in one brief spell. We miss the sunshine pouring in through the windows and find ourselves scouring the bookshelves for reminders of balmy days. And what could be more summery and cheering than heading down to the riverbank and messing about in boats with Ratty and Mole?

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John Moore | Landscape with Figures | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

John Moore | Landscape with Figures | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. Things are just starting to quieten down at SF HQ after the initial flurry of orders thanks to the publication of this quarter’s offerings: Slightly Foxed Issue No. 78, Luke Jennings’s Blood Knots and Adrian Bell’s farming memoir, Corduroy. This is…

The Blue Field | Part I: Landscape with Figures

The Blue Field | Part I: Landscape with Figures

We’ll begin at the top of Brensham Hill, because from there you will get a good idea of the kind of country in which our village is set. This is the land which has made and moulded us. Look north, south, east and west, and you shall see as it were the four cornerstones of our character: the ancient foundations of our way of thinking and living, our wisdom, folly, manners, customs, humours, what you will.

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‘Reading some of these letters, you have to pinch yourself . . .’ | The Oxford Book of Letters | From the Slightly Foxed archives

‘Reading some of these letters, you have to pinch yourself . . .’ | The Oxford Book of Letters | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. We’re sorry if it’s taken a little longer than usual for us to reply to you of late, dear readers, but we have been inundated with charming, cheering and heartfelt missives of congratulation for Editors Gail and…

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Erich Kästner | Suitcases, Corsets and Curls | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Erich Kästner | Suitcases, Corsets and Curls | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. We do hope you’re all enjoying roaming far and wide across the literary landscape of Slightly Foxed Issue No. 78 from L. P. Hartley’s Suffolk to News South Wales with Fiona Macfarlane via the French Riviera (and a number of other European…

When I Was a Little Boy | Chapter 4: Suitcases, Corsets and Curls

When I Was a Little Boy | Chapter 4: Suitcases, Corsets and Curls

Dresden was a wonderful city, full of art and history, yet with none of the atmosphere of a museum which happened to house, along with its treasures, six hundred and fifty thousand Dresdeners. Past and present lived in perfect unity, or rather duality, and blended and harmonized with the landscape – the Elbe, the bridges, the slopes of the surrounding hills, the woods, the mountains which fringed the horizon – to form a perfect trinity. From Meissen Cathedral to the Castle Park of Groszsedlitz, history, art and nature intermingled in town and valley in an incomparable accord which seemed as though bewitched by its own perfect harmony.

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