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Lea Ypi wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2021 for Free

Lea Ypi wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2021 for Free

Slightly Foxed and The Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce that the winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2021, chosen by judges Susannah Clapp, Horatio Clare and Johnny de Falbe, is Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi. Free is an engrossing coming-of-age memoir in the midst of political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled along by the sweep of history.

Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Winter Notebook

Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Winter Notebook

The Halesworth Bookshop & Slightly Foxed Richard Hawking & Professor Jules Pretty in conversation on a Slightly Foxed special release: Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Winter Notebook at The Cut, Halesworth. Many thanks to all who attended!

Book Launch: An Englishman’s Commonplace Book

Book Launch: An Englishman’s Commonplace Book

Despite everything that is going on in the world right now, a pair of Foxes scurried off to South West London on the rather dreary and wet evening of Wednesday 30 September 2020 to raise a glass with Roger and booksellers Johnny and Boojum at John Sandoe Books. It was an absolute joy to be able to celebrate Roger and the publication of An Englishman’s Commonplace Book at one of our favourite independent bookshops.

Jonathan Phillips wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

Jonathan Phillips wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019 is Jonathan Phillips for The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin.

The Return: Hisham Matar in conversation with the Biographers’ Club & Slightly Foxed at Hatchards

The Return: Hisham Matar in conversation with the Biographers’ Club & Slightly Foxed at Hatchards

Thursday 27 February 2020 Hatchards Booksellers on Piccadilly were delighted to host an evening with Hisham Matar. Hisham was interviewed by Sarah Anderson, founder of the Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill. This was the third in an event series with Slightly Foxed and the Biographers’ Club.

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.

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.

The Cut Out Girl: Bart van Es in conversation with the Biographers’ Club & Slightly Foxed at Hatchards

The Cut Out Girl: Bart van Es in conversation with the Biographers’ Club & Slightly Foxed at Hatchards

Wednesday 3 July 2019 Hatchards Booksellers on Piccadilly were delighted to host Bart van Es in the first of an event series with Slightly Foxed and The Biographers’ Club. Bart was interviewed by journalist and writer Rachel Cooke.

Bart van Es wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for The Cut Out Girl

Bart van Es wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for The Cut Out Girl

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2018 is Bart van Es for The Cut Out Girl.

Autumn 2018 Launch Party: A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book

Autumn 2018 Launch Party: A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book

Slightly Foxed & the Leaping Hare welcomed friends, subscribers and local book-lovers to Wyken Vineyards to celebrate the publication of the Autumn issue of Slightly Foxed, SFE No. 43: Jennie Erdal’s Ghosting and a Slightly Foxed Special. Our guests enjoyed books galore, a glass of wine and readings of wonders and absurdities!

Munnings Art Museum Birthday Lecture

Munnings Art Museum Birthday Lecture

Wednesday 3 October 2018 Dedham Assembly Rooms, Essex The Munnings Art Museum’s second birthday lecture was a wonderful opportunity to hear life stories from broadcaster and former politician, Martin Bell OBE, in a beautiful setting. Like Sir Alfred Munnings, Bell grew up in the Waveney Valley on the Suffolk/Norfolk border and his father, farmer, writer and first Times crossword compiler Adrian Bell was friends with Munnings in the 1930s.

Northamptonshire’s Ideal Countrymen

Northamptonshire’s Ideal Countrymen

Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 July 2018 Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire The BB Society and the H. E. Bates Group brought together accomplished authors, artists, historians, actors and others at Lamport Hall to celebrate the county’s literary and artistic heritage of ‘BB’ and ‘HE’. There were also displays of pictures, books and memorabilia, as well as film shows and illustrated talks throughout the weekend.

Print! Tearing It Up

Print! Tearing It Up

Somerset House explores the power of print by celebrating the past and present of Britain’s thriving independent magazine scene. Print! Tearing It Up will be the first exhibition to trace the journey of independent voices in magazines and journals from their roots in the early 20th century to today’s contemporary titles. Until 22 August 2018 Somerset House, London Free entry

Slightly Foxed Readers’ Day 2018

Slightly Foxed Readers’ Day 2018

This year's Readers' Day took place on Friday 9 November. Our speakers were: Edmund Gordon; Tom Hodgkinson; Penelope Lively; Miranda Seymour and Angie Lewin and Christopher Brown from St Jude’s.

Slightly Foxed at Sea Fever Festival

Slightly Foxed at Sea Fever Festival

North Norfolk’s Festival of Poetry and Prose, 11–12 May 2018 Sea Fever aims to celebrate all forms of the written word inspired by this exceptional coast-line, and to bring to the coast writers with national reputations. Our Editors, Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood, took their audience of festival-goers behind the scenes at Slightly Foxed on a sunny Saturday in May.

The Lost Words Exhibition

The Lost Words Exhibition

*This exhibition closed on 6 May 2018* The relationship between language and the living world is celebrated in this exhibition of poetry and illustration. The Lost Words is a unique collaborative project between the award-winning author and Slightly Foxed contributor Robert Macfarlane, and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, that seeks to reconnect people with the natural world.

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