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Pernod and Gitanes

Pernod and Gitanes

One afternoon last summer I splashed along Piccadilly with the rain spray-painting the back of my tights, thinking how much nicer Paris in the sunshine would be. And then, from nowhere, a neglected memory darted into my mind. It was of me, aged 18, eating a sandwich and reading Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse on a sunlit bench in the Tuileries Gardens.

Fishing Fox

Fishing Fox

From Slightly Foxed, Issue 15 James Nunn www.jamesnunn.co.uk

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 14, Simon Dorrell, ‘Foxgloves’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 14, Simon Dorrell, ‘Foxgloves’

Simon Dorrell is a freelance illustrator, principally of books and periodicals; a painter of landscapes and interiors in oils and in watercolour; a designer of gardens in the Arts & Crafts tradition; and art editor and co-publisher of the quarterly journal Hortus: www.hortus.co.uk

An Unsettling Read

As the long flight plugged on through the night, Forster’s powerful descriptions of the scenery and climate of India beckoned me. I longed to feel the way the Asian heat ‘leapt forward’ hour by hour, to see the ‘angry orange’ sun that ‘had power without beauty,’ and to smell the toddy palms and neem trees and sweet ‘green-blossomed champak’. I wanted to feel beneath my feet what Forster describes as ‘something hostile in the soil’ and see the sky at night when ‘the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault’.

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Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 13, Susan Leiper, ‘Spring Garden’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 13, Susan Leiper, ‘Spring Garden’

Susie Leiper is a freelance calligrapher in Edinburgh. Oriental, especially Chinese, art influences most of her work: the poetry on the cover is by the 20th-century Chinese poet Mu Dan, and the garden is inspired by Japanese paste-resist textiles. Susie is a…

Pure Arcadia

Pure Arcadia

I don’t really consider M. F. a cookery writer per se. She is a sort of food alchemist and is positively sensual about the pleasure of food. ‘I just wish my fellow countrymen were more relaxed. They have been conditioned to believe there is something basically evil about physical and moral sensuality.’ Her books are full of recipes, not all of them about food.

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With Bold Knife and Fork

With Bold Knife and Fork

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher did write exquisitely. She also wrote a vast amount, and one might fear indigestion on so hefty a diet of opinion, scathing contempt and passion for the many and varied food experiences of her long and pretty colourful life. Still, I have yet to tire of either her prose or her subject.

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 12, John Caple, ‘Old Jack Frost the Almanac Seller’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 12, John Caple, ‘Old Jack Frost the Almanac Seller’

John Caple lives and paints in the Mendips in North Somerset. He exhibits regularly with the John Martin Gallery, London and his work can be seen on the gallery’s website www.jmlondon.com

Walking Fox

Walking Fox

From Slightly Foxed, Issue 12 James Nunn www.jamesnunn.co.uk

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 11, John Holder, ‘with apologies to Gainsborough’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 11, John Holder, ‘with apologies to Gainsborough’

John Holder was born in 1941 in Baldwell Ash, Suffolk, and studied at the Cambridge School of Art. His work has been published in books and periodicals worldwide and he has exhibited his travel drawings in London and Dubrovnik.

Poste-Freudian Therapy

Poste-Freudian Therapy

It is generally thought that Stella Gibbons was mocking Mary Webb’s Precious Bane when she wrote Cold Comfort Farm, but she was probably having a pop at all those purveyors of country hardship, sex, doom and slop, Hardy and Lawrence included. One can easily tire of the lush, dripping, thrusting, tragic, moist, fecund countryside, and long for a brisk young woman from the tough pavements of town like Flora Poste to come along and tidy things up a bit . . .

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Troublesome Ghosts

Troublesome Ghosts

Every morning, when the dog drags me out, we take the Church Walk behind the shops, through a wrought-iron gateway into the churchyard, passing the old half-timbered Guildhall. There, on a rock sticking out of a shrub border, is a bronze plaque of a woman with an odd gaze, her hair done up in a bun, against a background of distant hills. The plaque is a brand: Much Wenlock and this part of south-west Shropshire have become Mary Webb Country.

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Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 10, Toni McGreachan, ‘Refreshment’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 10, Toni McGreachan, ‘Refreshment’

Toni McGreachan is a practising and exhibiting artist based in London. The image on the cover is a detail from a painting entitled Refreshment made during her residency at Tooting Bec Lido. To see further works by Toni and for contact details visit: www.toni-mcgreachan.co.uk

Diving Fox

Diving Fox

From Slightly Foxed, Issue 10 James Nunn www.jamesnunn.co.uk

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 9, Emma McClure, ‘Chickens’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 9, Emma McClure, ‘Chickens’

Emma McClure trained as a painter at Winchester and Chelsea Schools of Art and now lives and works in London. She exhibits regularly and has had several successful one-person exhibitions at the Cadogan Contemporary Gallery. She can be contacted on: 07748 408937 or [email protected]

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 8, Sue Macartney-Snape, ‘Slightly Foxed’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 8, Sue Macartney-Snape, ‘Slightly Foxed’

Sue Macartney-Snape was born in Tanganyika, educated in Australia and now lives in London. She has had several sell-out exhibitions of her work and has been acclaimed as the Wodehouse of Art. Prints of her work are available from SMS Editions, tel: 01256…