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Through All the Flummery | Slightly Foxed Last Orders

Season’s greetings from SF HQ, where we’re warming mince pies, stock-taking and tidying-up as we prepare to shut up shop for the Christmas break. The last orders for the year have now been dispatched and the office will be closed from 2 p.m. on Monday 23 December until 9.30 a.m. on Friday 3 January 2025.

Time, readers please | Books, goods & gifts from Slightly Foxed

Season’s greetings from the Slightly Foxed office, where the final post bags are being stuffed and we’ve just booked our last collection with our busy but always jolly postman.

‘A subscription would make an inspired gift for a hungry reader.’ | Gift Subscriptions

Warm wishes from Hoxton Square where it’s a hive of festive activity as we pack up great piles of the quarterly magazine, books and goods and send them out to readers old and new for Christmas and other occasions.

Stocking Fillers & Fireside Reading

Greetings from Foxed HQ where the winter quarter is officially upon us and, as is customary at this time of year, the office is fit to bursting with towers of books, reams of smart brown wrapping paper and rolls of handsome cream ribbon bearing little running foxes. Despite the lack of space, the chaos is organised and spirits are high as we go about the merry business of packing up parcels of books, magazines, notebooks, bags, bookplates and more besides, to be sent off to readers around the world.

A gift for the young at heart | Receive a free copy of BB’s classic adventure novel, Brendon Chase

Greetings from Hoxton Square where between unfurling rolls of wrapping paper, wrestling with parcels and rootling around in the depths of cupboards, we find ourselves well on the way to the festive season. With Christmas spirit building, we thought it a good moment to shine a light on some of our beautiful books for children and nostalgic grown-ups – Foxed staff included.

‘Your editions are a joy to handle and have given me many happy hours.’ | Slightly Foxed Editions

Greetings from a busy, book-filled Slightly Foxed office, where we’re merrily navigating our way through an obstacle course of post bags, packing materials and parcels. There’s still time for us to help with gifts for booklovers, and we’d like to shine a light on our Slightly Foxed Editions – beautifully produced cloth-bound hardbacks, just the right size to hold in the hand and with a ribbon marker to keep your place.

Endless hours of pleasure | New this Winter from Slightly Foxed

Greetings, dear readers, from Hoxton Square. 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 around the world over the next few weeks. We do hope it brings much reading pleasure. And for those of you who are on a repeat order to receive our new limited-edition memoir each quarter, your usual hand-numbered copy of Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield will be with you very soon.

Diary of a Provincial Lady | New from the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

We’re in the drawing-room of an under-heated middle-class home, far from any city, on a chilly November day in 1929 and our diarist – the Provincial Lady of the title – is dealing with a bossy acquaintance. Lady Boxe, her neighbour from the local great house, is one of a cast of headache-inducing characters who inhabit this deathless diary, including Ethel the clumsy house-parlourmaid, and Cook, who has just announced that ‘something is wrong with the range’, the PL’s husband, unemotional and uncommunicative Robert, and her children, runny-nosed 6-year-old Vicky and 10-year-old Robin, home briefly from his prep-school and bringing a friend who is eating them out of house and home.

Richard Cobb, A Classical Education | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

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, told in Cobb’s exquisite and inimitable style.

Loafing by the Seine | From the Slightly Foxed Archives

‘Sometimes, nostalgic for Paris, I read books about the city in the hope that through them I’ll know again the felt reality of daily life there.’ Greetings from Hoxton Square, where we have been travelling through the archives this week…

‘It’s quite easy really, Mr Eric,’ said Miss Webb, the stockkeeper of the Coat Department . . .

Eric Newby was in his late twenties when he returned home in 1945 after an adventurous war. He had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy and had fallen in love with his future wife Wanda. Back in London, however, demobbed and demoralized, he bowed to pressure and joined the family firm.

Last 30 Pairs A portrait of a childhood in two parts | E. H. Shepard’s Drawn from Memory & Drawn from Life

The lodger has gone home to Germany for dental treatment, and I have crept into her room with a purpose. Standing on a kitchen chair, I pull out from the top of the bookshelves three little hardbacks, worn and water-stained.

Back to School with Roald Dahl | An Extract from Boy

Greetings from No. 53 Hoxton Square, where September is well and truly upon us and there’s a familiar back-to-school feeling lingering in the air. This quarter’s publications and reading recommendations are flying out the door to readers far and wide, for which we thank you. If you are yet to sample our bumper autumn crop, please do take a look at our Readers’ Catalogue via the Slightly Foxed website.

‘Every September day is born in a caul’ | A Countryman’s Autumn Notebook

Greetings from Hoxton Square where we are beginning to ready your pre-orders of Adrian Bell’s A Countryman’s Autumn Notebook. In this, the final selection from Adrian Bell’s weekly essays, written between 1950 and 1980 for his local newspaper the Eastern Daily Press, completes our seasonal quartet. ‘You can stand in the windless calm of an autumn evening and hear the heartbeat of the countryside,’ Bell writes, and it’s that steady, persistent, unchanging heartbeat that we can hear in these beautifully observed little pieces.

A comforting, informative and enjoyable read | New this Autumn from Slightly Foxed

Greetings, dear readers, from Hoxton Square. 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.

The Other Day | New from the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

‘Children bear a great deal that their elders know nothing of,’ wrote Dorothy Whipple, and that is the keynote of this lovely memoir – a book her agent described as ‘the best thing she had done yet’, though she was already a successful novelist when it was published in 1936.

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Through All the Flummery | Slightly Foxed Last Orders

Time, readers please | Books, goods & gifts from Slightly Foxed

‘A subscription would make an inspired gift for a hungry reader.’ | Gift Subscriptions

Stocking Fillers & Fireside Reading

A gift for the young at heart | Receive a free copy of BB’s classic adventure novel, Brendon Chase

‘Your editions are a joy to handle and have given me many happy hours.’ | Slightly Foxed Editions

Endless hours of pleasure | New this Winter from Slightly Foxed

Diary of a Provincial Lady | New from the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Richard Cobb, A Classical Education | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Loafing by the Seine | From the Slightly Foxed Archives

‘It’s quite easy really, Mr Eric,’ said Miss Webb, the stockkeeper of the Coat Department . . .

Last 30 Pairs A portrait of a childhood in two parts | E. H. Shepard’s Drawn from Memory & Drawn from Life

Back to School with Roald Dahl | An Extract from Boy

‘Every September day is born in a caul’ | A Countryman’s Autumn Notebook

A comforting, informative and enjoyable read | New this Autumn from Slightly Foxed

The Other Day | New from the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

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