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Hitting the Nail on the Head

Hitting the Nail on the Head

1. Jan Struther, the well-known and successful writer, lecturer, radio performer etc. (with a subdivision called Jan Struther, the much-too-little-known and really pretty terrific serious poet whose depth and brilliance will only really be appreciated by a discerning literary public after she is dead!) That ‘item no. 1’ was the first on a list concocted by my grandmother Jan Struther in a letter to her brother Douglas in 1951.

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Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 63, Louise O’Hara, ‘Wandering by the Light of the Moon’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 63, Louise O’Hara, ‘Wandering by the Light of the Moon’

Louise O’Hara is a professional mixed media artist based in the heart of Cheshire. Her style has been described as quintessentially English, romantic and nostalgic. The work she produces is influenced by tactile aged surfaces such as peeling paint on walls and fabrics that are threadbare but which are laden with memories.

The Eagle of the Ninth | The dark hour before the dawn

The Eagle of the Ninth | The dark hour before the dawn

‘The best kind of historical fiction, far too good to be limited to children’s bookshelves’ We are pleased to announce the publication of two new titles in the Slightly Foxed Cubs series of highly collectable classic children’s books, The Eagle of the Ninth and The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff.

The Eagle of the Ninth | The dark hour before the dawn . . .

The Eagle of the Ninth | The dark hour before the dawn . . .

Sometime about the year AD 117, the Ninth Legion, which was stationed at Eburacum where York now stands, marched north to deal with a rising among the Caledonian tribes, and was never heard of again.

The Roman Novels by Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff (1920‒92) wrote three of her four great historical novels for children set during the last years of the Roman occupation of Britain – The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers (winner of the Carnegie Medal) – between 1954 and 1959, and the fourth, Frontier Wolf, which comes third in the chronological story, in 1980. Slightly Foxed is now reissuing all four of the Roman novels, with their original illustrations, in a limited, numbered edition.

Inventing Angela Carter: Edmund Gordon in conversation with Susannah Clapp at Hatchards

Inventing Angela Carter: Edmund Gordon in conversation with Susannah Clapp at Hatchards

Wednesday 2 October 2019 Hatchards Booksellers on Piccadilly were delighted to host biographer Edmund Gordon and theatre critic Susannah Clapp for an evening celebrating the life and work of Angela Carter. This was the second in an event series with Slightly Foxed and the Biographers’ Club.

A Sunday Times Top 100 Podcast

A Sunday Times Top 100 Podcast

We’re delighted that the Slightly Foxed Podcast has been selected as one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Podcasts to Love.

In Spite of Everything

If anything, my experience with James Cameron’s book An Indian Summer (1974) demonstrates the need for magazines like Slightly Foxed. In the 1980s I was working in India as the British Council’s books officer and reading everything I could find about the subcontinent: V. S. Naipaul’s sober tomes; Forster and Ackerley on the Maharajahs; Eric Newby on negotiating the Ganges in a small boat; Sarah Lloyd’s An Indian Attachment, about her affair with a young Sikh. Because of my job I was ideally placed to find the right stuff, yet it was only during my fifth year in India that I discovered what was – and still is – the best book I’ve read on the subject.

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Adrian Bell | Corduroy

Adrian Bell | Corduroy

We are delighted to let you know that, following sell-out runs in its original limited SF Edition and subsequent paperback incarnation, Corduroy has just been published as a cloth-bound hardback Plain Foxed Edition. These sturdy little books, bound in duck-egg blue cloth, come in the same neat pocket format as the original SF Editions and will happily fill any gaps on your shelves, as well as forming a delightful uniform edition on their own.

6th August 2019

‘It’s just good writing about good books . . .’

‘It’s just good writing about good books, written by people who love them . . . It’s made me chuckle, and smile, and feel that, in fact, the world is still a kind and civilized place.’

- High Heels in the Wilderness

The Slightly Foxed Summer Shelf Clean

The Slightly Foxed Summer Shelf Clean

Pocketable Paperbacks, Collectable Cubs, Irresistible Issues Herewith our occasional plea to our dear readers to help us clear a few shelves this August by stocking up on paperbacks, notebooks, back issues, Cubs and greetings cards. Various bundles and other tempting offers appear in the newsletter . . .

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 62, Chloe Cheese, ‘Riverbank Picnic’

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 62, Chloe Cheese, ‘Riverbank Picnic’

Chloe Cheese makes prints, drawings and sometimes illustrations. She was brought up in the Essex village of Great Bardﬁeld but now lives in London where she has been since she graduated from the Royal College of Art in the 1970s. In her work she seeks out the details of daily life and draws them.

1st August 2019

‘The summer issue was a delight . . .’

‘The summer issue was a delight. I couldn’t contemplate life without my quarterly edition of Slightly Foxed – it should be available on the NHS for SAD sufferers – its arrival and the anticipation of the goodies therein always lifts my spirits significantly. You are without doubt the purveyors of the most outstanding literary magazine available. I prostrate myself before you and bow to the literary magic that you weave. May it long continue.’

- C. Skinner, Devon, UK

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A Sense of Home: Period Piece | The Ladies’ Dining Society

Period Piece features punting, picnics on Grantchester Meadows and problems with corsets and bicycles, all illustrated with Raverat’s delightful drawings, often featuring the family’s put-upon dog . . . It’s the perfect book to read in a garden on these sunny summer days.

Slightly Foxed Autumn 2019 Launch Party at One Tree Books

Slightly Foxed Autumn 2019 Launch Party at One Tree Books

Slightly Foxed at One Tree Books welcomed friends, subscribers and local book-lovers to celebrate a bumper crop of autumn offerings. Our guests browsed the shelves, stocked up on good reading and enjoyed a glass of wine with the Slightly Foxed team. Many thanks to all who attended and made the party such a joyful occasion.

Episode 10: From Page to Stage

Just who are literary festivals for and why do we love them so much? Gail, Steph and host Philippa go backstage with Anne Oxborough of the well-established Ways With Words and Michael Pugh of recent start-up the Llangwm Literary Festival to find out more. From the delights of surprise-hit speakers, post-show river swims, vodka-fuelled poetry sessions and the rise of fancy food stalls to the horrors of airborne green rooms, bacon-roll bust-ups and rail replacement buses, the conversation ranges far and wide in the usual Slightly Foxed way. In this month’s audio-adventure through the magazine’s archives the writer and performer A. F. Harrold goes speed-dating with Iris Murdoch at Cheltenham Literature Festival and, to finish, there’s the usual round-up of recommended reading from off the beaten track.

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