- Search for:
0
0

Newsletters

‘A great present for those who love books . . . ’

‘A great present for those who love books . . . ’

Warm wishes from Hoxton Square where the SF office is a hive of activity, packing up great piles of the quarterly magazine, books and goods and sending them out to bring festive cheer to readers old and new around the world.

Winter greetings from Slightly Foxed HQ

Winter greetings from Slightly Foxed HQ

Greetings from the Slightly Foxed office where we’re all feeling rather festive. As is customary at this time of year we’re surrounded by towers of boxes, reams of smart brown wrapping paper and rolls of handsome grey and cream ribbon bearing little running foxes, as we go about the merry business of packing up parcels of books, magazines, notebooks, bags, bookplates, cards and more besides, to be sent off to readers around the world.

‘Not just beautiful books, but so brilliantly chosen’ | Plain Foxed Editions | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

‘Not just beautiful books, but so brilliantly chosen’ | Plain Foxed Editions | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

‘For Christmas someone gave me a small red-leather bound copy of Coriolanus (why?) which I proudly carried about with me for weeks, though unable to make head or tail of it. If anyone, on seeing it, asked me if I liked it…

Intellectual Refreshment | New this Winter from Slightly Foxed

Intellectual Refreshment | New this Winter from Slightly Foxed

‘I may be a long way from you all but I am dependent on Slightly Foxed for intellectual refreshment and for opening new paths, either to books unknown to me or to old favourites. All my good wishes for your continued successes!’ C. Stelzer, Arizona, USA Greetings, dear readers, from Slightly Foxed HQ. We’re delighted to report that the new winter issue of Slightly Foxed has now left the printing press at Smith Settle and should arrive with readers in the UK in the coming days and elsewhere over the next few weeks. We do hope it brings much reading pleasure.

Pig Ignorant | New from the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Pig Ignorant | New from the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

‘I believe we all have a certain time in our lives that we’re good at. I wasn’t good at being a child.’ The epigraph from Victoria Wood to this endearingly honest memoir says it all. In it the best-selling children’s writer Nicholas Fisk lays bare his teenage soul as he beckons us into the world of late 1930s suburbia where he grew up.

A Calendar of Covers for 2024 | Celebrating 20 years of Slightly Foxed

A Calendar of Covers for 2024 | Celebrating 20 years of Slightly Foxed

Our special anniversary Slightly Foxed 2024 Wall Calendar is here, featuring a selection of readers’ favourite Slightly Foxed cover artwork from the past 20 years. We have just published the 80th issue of Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly and in March 2024 Slightly Foxed will be celebrating its 20th year and and we’ve decided to mark the occasion with an anniversary calendar featuring some more of the seasonal Slightly Foxed covers that readers enjoy so much. It’s a handsome, spiral-bound decorative wall calendar printed on sturdy paper with a board backing, and we feel it will raise the spirits and look good in any room. It would make a charming present for anyone who loves Slightly Foxed, or indeed for anyone who hasn’t yet come across it.

Jan Morris | Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Jan Morris | Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. As the weather grows colder and brown leaves litter the ground here in Hoxton Square, we find ourselves thinking of all the far-flung places we could be transported to by the words of the great travel writers.

A Literary Love Affair | 84, Charing Cross Road | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

A Literary Love Affair | 84, Charing Cross Road | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

In the drab and traumatized post-war London of 1949, Marks & Co., second-hand and antiquarian booksellers of 84, Charing Cross Road, received an enquiry from a Miss Helene Hanff of New York City. It was not the kind of letter they were accustomed to receiving, and it was one that would make history.

George Orwell | The Nightmare of Room 101 | From the Slightly Foxed archives

George Orwell | The Nightmare of Room 101 | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Hoxton Square. It’s Banned Books Week and censored writers have been very much on our minds: Simone de Beauvoir, D. H. Lawrence, Voltaire, Edna O’Brien, Kurt Vonnegut, Antal Szerb, James Joyce and Radclyffe Hall, to name but a few of our favourites. We have been astonished to discover quite how many books have been banned and the myriad reasons for which they were removed from libraries and bookshops around the world.

Lark Rise to Ambridge | Flora Thompson & The Archers | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Lark Rise to Ambridge | Flora Thompson & The Archers | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. We’re delighted to bring news of what promises to be a fantastic adaptation of Flora Thompson’s Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green by the cast of the famed long-running BBC Radio 4 drama, The Archers. Over two episodes, broadcast at 3 p.m. on Sunday 1 October and Sunday 8 October, the residents of Ambridge will guide us through Flora’s memoirs of a rural Oxfordshire childhood in the late nineteenth century.

Richard Hillary | A Confrontation with Evil | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Richard Hillary | A Confrontation with Evil | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Greetings from Slightly Foxed. This week we’re taking to the skies with Battle of Britain pilot Richard Hillary. He was a charming, good-looking and rather arrogant young man, fresh from public school and Oxford, when he abandoned university to train…

Graham Greene | Stamboul Train | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Graham Greene | Stamboul Train | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Hoxton Square where, as the daylight hours become fewer, we’re feeling rather autumnal and looking for suitable reading to while away the dark evenings. This week, we decided to escape somewhat dreary London by hopping aboard the Orient Express via Graham Greene’s Stamboul Train and be transported across Europe with a cast of unusual characters.

With Bold Knife and Fork | The writings of M. F. K. Fisher | From the Slightly Foxed archives

With Bold Knife and Fork | The writings of M. F. K. Fisher | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Greetings from Hoxton Square. As you all know, each issue of Slightly Foxed is a real feast of interesting and varied bookish delights, and this quarter’s issue (No. 79) is no exception. We were particularly taken with Olivia Potts’s piece on Marguerite Patten but with Cookery in Colour sadly out of print, we’ve been discussing our favourite food writing, and in particular those books being given a second life by publishers like Daunt Books Publishing.

Tales from School Days | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Tales from School Days | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

For this week’s missive we turn to Ysenda Maxtone Graham, our resident expert on the subject of school days, author of not one but two Plain Foxed Editions set in the school sphere – Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School and Terms & Conditions – both diligently researched and brimming with detailed anecdotes and hilarious tales. Each of these books provides, as Nicola Shulman writes in her preface to Terms & Conditions, ‘a study of a vanished society, based upon the testimony of elders . . . witnesses to a lost era’.

Reading lists for a lifetime | New this Autumn from Slightly Foxed

Reading lists for a lifetime | New this Autumn from Slightly Foxed

Greetings, dear readers, from Slightly Foxed HQ. We’re delighted to report that the new autumn issue of Slightly Foxed has now left the printing press at Smith Settle and should arrive with readers in the UK in the coming days and elsewhere over the next few weeks. We do hope it brings much reading pleasure.

A Classical Education | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

A Classical Education | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Introducing the latest addition to the Slightly Foxed Editions list, No. 64: Richard Cobb A CLASSICAL EDUCATION Everything about the historian Richard Cobb was unexpected and original, especially his writing. A Classical Education is no exception, a memoir that’s more like a psychological thriller,…

Where to next?

>> View all categories

Sign up to our e-newsletter

Sign up for dispatches about new issues, books and podcast episodes, highlights from the archive, events, special offers and giveaways.