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Taking the Plunge | From the Slightly Foxed Archives

Greetings from Hoxton Square, where this time next week we will readying to shut up shop and head to Liverpool Street for the 14.52 to Norwich. From there we’ll tootle along to Holt to meet Hazel and Steph at The Holt Bookshop to toast our summer issue of Slightly Foxed, the new quarter’s SF Edition Life in Our Hands and Adrian Bell’s Summer Notebook, browse the shelves and talk books with friends and fellow readers.

. . . from the Trees

Isabel Lloyd on books about trees, Part II

In Issue 75, I said some books help you grow. Others help you let go. Our son was 17 when he disappeared. I’ll call him R. We bought our place that was big enough to plant trees when he was 14. We thought this was a good thing; he loved trees, so did we. While we were busy planting an orchard, a forest garden, he explored the ancient woodland that surrounded us, taking an axe, a tinder box and a bivvy bag. We wouldn’t see him again until dark, sometimes not even then.

D is for Deakin, Roger | From the Slightly Foxed archives

In this week’s free article from the Slightly Foxed archives, Sarah Anderson takes the plunge into Roger Deakin’s Waterlog. We’ll leave you with this bracing journey through the waterways of Britain from SF Issue 6, and we hope you enjoy reading it.

Taking the Plunge

Sarah Anderson on Roger Deakin, Waterlog

The notion of a long swim through Britain began in the pouring rain while Roger Deakin was swimming in his moat in Suffolk. The idea became an obsession and, inspired by John Cheever’s short story ‘The Swimmer’, in which the hero Ned Merrill swims drunkenly home through a series of neighbours’ pools, he embarked on a random journey to swimming spots throughout the British Isles.

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