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Singularly precocious, egocentric and thoroughly original . . . | Dear Little Dodie Smith

We’ve been having something of a Dodie Smith moment at Slightly Foxed in recent months, what our reissue of Look Back with Love, the recent National Theatre revival of Dear Octopus, and our latest podcast, with special guest: Dodie’s biographer Valerie Grove.

Coppery haws and scarlet hips | The girl who grew up to be Rosemary Sutcliff

We much enjoyed reading Slightly Foxed contributor Laura Freeman’s spread on Rosemary Sutcliff in The Times a few weekends ago. We feel bound to confess that the article was inspired by another publisher’s forthcoming paperback edition of Blue Remembered Hills but, as Laura herself wrote as a footnote to her piece, ‘I feel a sneak for saying it but this isn’t the prettiest of editions and there is a nicer one published by Slightly Foxed in clothbound covers.’ ‘Either way’, she goes on to say, ‘Blue Remembered Hills is a perfect period piece: beautifully written, brave, forbearing and sublimely entertaining.’

Scrag end, Bovril and ancient eggs | My Grandmothers and I

Diana Holman-Hunt’s childhood was spent between two wildly contrasting households. One, in Melbury Road, Kensington, belonged to her paternal grandmother, William Holman Hunt’s eccentric widow Edith, known to Diana as ‘Grand’. The other, on the edge of the Sussex marshes, was the home of her mother’s parents, Grandmother and Grandfather Freeman.

Spring has sprung at Slightly Foxed

Greetings from Hoxton Square where we’re ignoring our frozen toes and drippy noses, blocking out the hum of the boiler and insisting that it is now, officially, spring. Issue 81 of Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly (the first of our 20th birthday year!) is published today and it’s brimming with lively recommendations to take your reading off the beaten track.

Large Busts and Slim Margins | From the Slightly Foxed Archives

It remains one of the more surprising facts of life that the intrepid traveller Eric Newby, who by the time I knew him had the weatherbeaten cragginess of a man only happy when halfway up the Hindu Kush, should have carved out an earlier career astride the lower slopes of haute couture.

Rare bookish gems from the Slightly Foxed & Smith Settle stockrooms

Greetings from Hoxton Square, where our desks are only just visible behind a labyrinth of brown printers’ parcels and a trip to the kettle involves a good deal of ducking and weaving and the odd pirouette to avoid another fox wielding a tape gun.

SF Edition No. 66, My Salinger Year | Now available to pre-order

Greetings from Hoxton Square, where we’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of Paul from Smith Settle with a van load of newly-minted copies of our 66th limited-edition clothbound hardback, Joanna Rakoff’s My Salinger Year.

‘Edith, you have made a fool of me’ | Hotel du Lac | From the Slightly Foxed Archives

Greetings from Hoxton Square, where the first snowdrops have reared their heads, and we’re looking ahead to the many joys of spring, and not just of the seasonal variety, for the good cream pages of our 66th limited-edition hardback memoir (Joanna Rakoff’s My Salinger Year) are rolling off the printing press up at Smith Settle as we type.

A Boy at the Hogarth Press | ‘Mrs W was in a very happy mood . . .’

‘The Hogarth Press where I’m working, is in the heart of the literary world, with authors coming in all the time. Mrs Woolf, wife of the manager, is a very celebrated author and, in her own way, more important than Galsworthy. LW and Mrs W think nothing of Galsworthy . . .’

The Spyglass of Tranquil Recollection | James Joyce’s Dubliners | From the Slightly Foxed archives

Happy New Year from the Slightly Foxed office, where we’ve returned to a mountain of orders and cheering correspondence which has built up over the course of our end of year break. Thanks to a few well-deserved days off after a busy end of 2023, we’re now rested and ready to tackle the new year and all the fantastic new publications this year will bring.

It is the time for home . . .

Season’s greetings to you all from SF HQ, where we’re warming mince pies, stock-taking and tidying the office 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 3pm this afternoon until 9.30am on Thursday 4 January.

Historical Adventure Novels for the Young at Heart | Last Ronald Welch Sets Remaining

Greetings from Hoxton Square where a rootle through the stock and stationery cupboards in search of more wrapping paper has revealed that we are down to our last 20 sets of Ronald Welch’s gripping historical adventure novels for children. And so, herewith, a hastily thrown-together email from the bookish elves here at Foxed HQ to let you know that if you’ve been thinking of investing in a set as a present for a young-at-heart reader, with stocks dwindling and the last recommended posting dates for Christmas fast approaching, now would be a good moment to do so.

Last orders, please | Books, goods & gifts from Slightly Foxed

Greetings from Slightly Foxed, where the last few post bags of 2023 are filling up and we’ve booked in our last collections with our very hard-working but always very jolly postman.

Produced by people who love books, for people who love books | Slightly Foxed Editions

Greetings from Slightly Foxed HQ, where we’re busily packing up all manner of bookish treats for readers far and wide and cheerily navigating our way through a developing obstacle course of packing materials, parcels and post bags. There’s still time for us to help with gifts for fellow bookworms – or, indeed, a well-deserved treat for yourself – and where better to find inspiration than in our series of Slightly Foxed Editions.

‘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

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.

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Singularly precocious, egocentric and thoroughly original . . . | Dear Little Dodie Smith

Coppery haws and scarlet hips | The girl who grew up to be Rosemary Sutcliff

Scrag end, Bovril and ancient eggs | My Grandmothers and I

Spring has sprung at Slightly Foxed

Large Busts and Slim Margins | From the Slightly Foxed Archives

Rare bookish gems from the Slightly Foxed & Smith Settle stockrooms

SF Edition No. 66, My Salinger Year | Now available to pre-order

‘Edith, you have made a fool of me’ | Hotel du Lac | From the Slightly Foxed Archives

A Boy at the Hogarth Press | ‘Mrs W was in a very happy mood . . .’

The Spyglass of Tranquil Recollection | James Joyce’s Dubliners | From the Slightly Foxed archives

It is the time for home . . .

Historical Adventure Novels for the Young at Heart | Last Ronald Welch Sets Remaining

Last orders, please | Books, goods & gifts from Slightly Foxed

Produced by people who love books, for people who love books | Slightly Foxed Editions

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

Winter greetings from Slightly Foxed HQ

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