A Charity Prize Draw for BookTrust | 12 July - 16 Sept 2024

Prize 17 of 20: Don McCullin, Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor | First Edition, Personal Inscription | RRP £100

This prize for our 20th birthday charity Prize Draw in aid of BookTrust is a first edition, lavishly illustrated hardback of Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor by legendary photographer Don McCullin. The book will be inscribed personally by Don with a name of the winner’s choice.

We are most grateful to Don McCullin & Barnaby Rogerson for offering this generous prize, which includes:

  • One hardback first edition of Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor (2023)
  • The book will be inscribed personally by Don with a name of the winner’s choice, following the draw

From the publisher

Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures’ – Don McCullin

Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor is driven by an eye for beauty and an ear for history. It is an album of the most recent photographs taken by Don McCullin, informed by a life full of hard-won experience. Working the ineffable magic of a master-craftsman, he frames an ancient sanctuary known to Homer, then focuses on the broken face of an exhausted emperor, before turning his eye on the sensuous torso of a goddess.

While most of us were sheltering from Covid, Don explored the mountains, valleys and coast of western Turkey, hunting out the most poignant and powerful ruins of the Roman Empire. He has created a meditation on landscape, the effects of light on ancient stone, the way clouds animate the past, but it is also inescapably about past conflict. About conquest, about imperium, about power. Journeys across Roman Asia Minor shows us a world still packed full of enchantment and wonder. He shows us pavements once trodden by Aristotle and Alexander the Great, Caesar and Sulla, St Paul and Hadrian. Through his lens we view ancient theatres cascading down the slopes of mountains, two-thousand-year-old bridges still used by hill farmers, and find spring water flowing into fountains still dominated by statues of the gods.

Plate 42 Tetrapylon Aphrodisias
Plate 107 Trajan and the Parthian captive Antalya Museum
Plate 143 Aqueduct Aspendos
Plate 42 Tetrapylon Aphrodisias
Plate 107 Trajan and the Parthian captive Antalya Museum
Plate 143 Aqueduct Aspendos

About the Prize Draw

This year (2024) the well-loved literary magazine Slightly Foxed is celebrating twenty years in print. When the magazine turned ten in 2014, we celebrated by raising over £5,500 for Great Ormond Street Hospital School with the proceeds from the sales of a little book of famous people’s drawings of foxes. And now, here we are, hoping to mark our twentieth birthday year by raising £20,000 for another good bookish cause: the brilliant BookTrust – the national charity dedicated to getting children reading.

With twenty covetable prizes from our friends and sponsors worth from £100-£1500 on offer. From a four-night luxury reading retreat in Cornwall, a full set of Slightly Foxed issues 1-80, boxed sets of books, a one-off original ‘fox’ by artist Jackie Morris, a two-night stay in a converted railway carriage so beautiful that it’s been featured by World of Interiors, a gardening masterclass in Wales, and many others besides, there’s sure to be something to tempt booklovers all around the world to enter.

Please click here to view all 20 prizes.

• Tickets are available from 1 July to 16 September 2024 • The Prize Draw will be held on 17 September 2024 • Tickets £5 online. Please see tickets page for full T&Cs

From BookTrust

We’re incredibly grateful to Slightly Foxed and their readership for supporting our cause and helping us change lives through reading. We know that reading for pleasure can be both magical and transformative for the lives of children and is something that every child in the UK should experience, no matter their background. Thank you Slightly Foxed!
Diana Gerald MBE, CEO of BookTrust
BookTrust | Getting Children Reading

About BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK’s largest reading charity and they reach millions of children every year with books, resources and support to get every child reading, regularly and by choice.

They are national in scale and operate in every region in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. They work through every local authority, via children’s centres, schools, libraries and health professionals, to reach the families who need them most.

From running the Children’s Laureate to giving out books to families and schools, running exciting reading campaigns or celebrating the very best children’s books with their prizes, everything they do at BookTrust aims to inspire children – from babies to teenagers – to get started on their reading journeys.

From the Slightly Foxed Editors

As anyone for whom reading is not just a pleasure but an essential part of life will know, learning to decode words on a page is very different from becoming a reader. Statistics may show that increasing numbers of our children have learned to read but they do not tell us how many of them will find pleasure in reading for the rest of their lives. This is where the wonderful charity BookTrust comes in and why we, as a magazine dedicated to the joys of reading, are delighted to be linking up with them in our 20th anniversary year.
Gail Pirkis MBE & Hazel Wood MBE

A 20th Birthday Prize Draw in aid of BookTrust

  • Tickets are available from 12 July to 16 September 2024
  • The Prize Draw will be held on 17 September 2024
  • Tickets £5*
  • No limit on number of tickets an individual may purchase
  • Worldwide entry but overseas friends should note that a number of the Prizes are UK-based trips, stays or tours
  • Entry is limited to 4,500 tickets in total
  • All profits to BookTrust
*Tickets available online via the Slightly Foxed website or by writing to: 20th Birthday Prize Draw, Slightly Foxed Ltd., 53 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB

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