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‘I don’t believe I’ve ever read a more eclectic magazine than Slightly Foxed – articles from the 14th Britannica via C. P. Snow to Rex Stout. If I can resist the bibliography at the end before I begin to read an article, it can be like taking a chocolate from a box blindfold.’ – M. Bond, Barry

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23rd November 2021

‘A must listen for avid readers’

This companion podcast to the excellent quarterly periodical is a must listen for avid readers – and if you haven’t checked out the magazine you should do that too . . . The conversations are warm and illuminating, and guaranteed to add to your ever growing ‘to-read’ pile.

- Laura Davis, Listen Up

22nd November 2021

Best Books of 2021 | Letters to Michael

Marvellously decorated with characterful pen-and-ink drawings, Letters to Michael is testament to a bygone era when snow fell thick, real pennies were squirrelled in plum puddings and letter-writing sketched the true contours of a relationship.

20th November 2021

‘I have just finished reading Rosemary Sutcliff’s Blue Remembered Hills . . .’

‘I have just finished reading Rosemary Sutcliff’s Blue Remembered Hills and enjoyed it so much I want to thank you for publishing it. It will now join my other lovely Slightly Foxed books on my bookshelf, but it will now…

- P. Beaton, London

20th November 2021

‘I treasure these pocket-sized memoirs . . .’

‘My Slightly Foxed Editions subscription has been in place for a while, and I treasure these pocket-sized memoirs. Another beautiful thing about this subscription? Each volume is hand-numbered and you get your own special number when you subscribe.’

- F. Evangelista, Maryland, USA

18th November 2021

‘Dear Michael . . . Love, Daddy’ | Letters to Michael

There is a poignant urgency underpinning Phillipson’s letters, his care to underline tricky spellings, his striving to imagine the world through his tiny son’s eyes.

- Iona McLaren, Telegraph

18th November 2021

Daily Mail Book of the Week | Letters to Michael

I keep returning to this magical collection, each time with renewed wonder that the letters survived — but also with a strange sadness that these days there is so little inclination to write any letters at all, let alone ones as happy and touching as these.

- Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

18th October 2021

‘John Hackett’s book was written with such humility . . .’

‘John Hackett’s book was written with such humility, and I found myself hugely moved reading of his return to Ede. I plan to send it as a Christmas gift to a friend in Arizona who is of Dutch heritage, and…

- C. Bilney, London

15th October 2021

‘I recently read George Clare’s Last Waltz in Vienna . . .’

‘I recently read George Clare’s Last Waltz in Vienna. It is a superb, well written book that provides insight into the harrowing world of Vienna in the 1930s. Set within the complex lives of a single family, it communicates the…

- S. Brumberg, New York

4th October 2021

‘Two rich recent discoveries – both published by Slightly Foxed Editions’

The Empress of Ireland is the novelist and screenwriter Christopher Robbins’s account of his friendship with the most successful forgotten Irish film director of all time, Brian Desmond Hurst . . . The book, simply, is a masterpiece, and its neglect is as inexplicable as that of its subject. Still Life by Richard Cobb, first published in 1983, is a memoir of a Tunbridge Wells childhood. Cobb, historian and Francophile, seems to have had a photographic memory, and his memoir is both an uncannily vivid resurrection of past times . . .

- John Banville, Literary Review

14th September 2021

‘Thank you for your excellent publications . . .’

‘Thank you for your excellent publications and your prompt service. I have enjoyed each issue of the Slightly Foxed quarterly (I received a gift subscription from my daughter), and as a result of Patrick Welland’s essay, I ordered, and promptly…

- S. Brumberg, New York

6th September 2021

The warmth of a book | Slightly Foxed podcast reviewed

In The Slightly Foxed Podcast, we’re treated not only to recommendations for unusual books, but also must-visit bookstores, museums and libraries. For bibliophiles, there’s no greater joy than being in the company of people who will endlessly talk books . . . It’s homey, yet rich with information and insight.

A Countryman’s Notebook: Adrian Bell and the Loss of Rural Culture

Adrian Bell, most well-known for Corduroy and his ‘Rural Trilogy’, was a farmer-writer whose work reflects the changes in farming between 1920 and 1980. In the second half of his life, his Countryman’s Notebook essays were his main literary output. From 1950 to 1980 he wrote one each week for East Anglia’s The Eastern Daily Press: nearly 1600 in total.

- Richard Hawking

True to nature: Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and more on the children’s books that inspired them

A couple of years ago I found myself gazing at the cover of a book I’d loved as a child: the 1942 Carnegie medal-winning The Little Grey Men, by the naturalist, illustrator and sportsman Denys Watkins-Pitchford, who wrote under the name…

- Melissa Harrison

‘I love the nature writing of BB’

‘I love the nature writing of BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford), who grew up in a vicarage near mine in Northamptonshire, and snap up every copy of Brendon Chase I find in secondhand bookshops.’ From Reverend Richard Coles’s ‘Books that made me’, Guardian

- Reverend Richard Coles

Food in books: Eccles cakes from Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee | The Little Library Café

While preparing for a trip to ‘Laurie Lee country’ – the Cotswolds – Kate Young bakes a batch of Eccles cakes, enjoyed by the author in his childhood. We lined up in the cold, not noticing the cold, waiting for…

15th December 2020

‘The funniest book I’ve read this year.’

‘Slightly Foxed is another brilliant imprint, publishing small hardback books from unfairly neglected authors. This year’s finest includes Christopher Robbins’ hilarious The Empress of Ireland, an account of the friendship between an English journalist and Brian Desmond Hurst, a flamboyant film director . . .’