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20250601100055 Slightly Foxed Issue 86

Slightly Foxed Issue 86: From the Editors

Gail Pirkis & Hazel Wood

June, the month when London begins to empty out and then fill up again with summer visitors, on the buses, on the underground, and in the restaurants and coffee shops around Hoxton Square. It’s the time of year when, at Slightly Foxed too, we begin to think of getting out of the office to visit bookshops in other parts of the country, or to take part in the kind of small literary festivals and book club get-togethers that are a million miles away from the high-profile sales events that the bigger literary festivals have become. We’ve had some of our most heartwarming, entertaining and sometimes eccentric experiences in village halls, country churches and occasionally private houses, where we meet up with readers and get a real sense of what’s going on in the places where they live. In fact on 20 June we two will be appearing at an afternoon event for the Two Moors Festival, at St Winifred’s Church, Manaton, on the edge of Dartmoor. So if you live in, or happen to be visiting, this lovely part of the south-west, please do come along (for details visit www.twomoorsfestival.com).
20250901105752 Slightly Foxed Issue 87

Slightly Foxed Issue 87: From the Editors

Gail Pirkis & Hazel Wood

The Slightly Foxed office is always busy but there’s something about the arrival of autumn – brisker air, shorter days, everyone back together again after the summer holidays – that brings a burst of extra energy with it. As always at this time of year, we’re finalizing arrangements for Readers’ Day, which is on 8 November at our usual Bloomsbury meeting place, the Art Workers’ Guild in Queen Square. For those who haven’t yet experienced it, it’s always a jolly occasion, winding up with cake and a convivial glass of Madeira. This year we have a great line-up, including Tim Kendall on his edition of the letters between William Golding and his editor at Faber, Charles Monteith; Sarah Anderson and Martin Latham on the art of book selling; Maggie Fergusson on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins; and Catherine Coldstream on her much praised memoir Cloistered, an account of the years she spent as a nun in an enclosed Carmelite order. We still have a few tickets left, so if you’re interested, do get in touch as soon as possible.
20240301093059 From the Editors | Slightly Foxed Issue 81

Slightly Foxed Issue 81: From the Editors

Gail Pirkis & Hazel Wood

In the spring of our twentieth anniversary year we’ve been feeling a little ruminative – looking back on the good times and all the fun we’ve had, but also remembering crises like the Covid lockdowns, when the whole world seemed out of joint, as it surely does at present. At difficult times like these it’s very clear from your messages how much the regular arrival of Slightly Foxed means to you and what a comfort reading and the sharing of reading can be. There’s nothing quite like a friendship formed over books – something Vesna Goldsworthy recalls in her piece on p.19 describing her meetings over many years with the novelist Graham Swift. There was, she says, always a certain reserve between them, but ‘it evaporated when we spoke about books, and those were always the best exchanges’.
20230901114248 From the Editors, Gail Pirkis, Hazel Wood, Slightly Foxed Issue 79

Slightly Foxed Issue 79: From the Editors

Gail Pirkis & Hazel Wood

New contributors to Slightly Foxed sometimes ask us which issue their piece is going to appear in and the truth is, we’re usually hard put to tell them in advance. One pleasure of SF is that we’re not bound by publication dates for new books, so we rarely plan a piece for a particular issue but instead welcome good contributions and select from what we have. We’ve always worked on the bran-tub principle that we’d like readers to dip in and find something unexpected that they wouldn’t normally have been looking for. But despite this, each issue does seem to come together with a particular atmosphere and character of its own.
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Slightly Foxed Issue 78: From the Editors

Gail Pirkis & Hazel Wood

The past few months have seen some significant comings and goings at Slightly Foxed. Sadly, we said goodbye to Anna (or rather au revoir – once a fox always a fox) who understandably felt it was time for a change after being with us for nearly fourteen years. Many of you will have spoken to Anna, who was loved by everyone for her kindness and her can-do attitude, and admired for her wide reading and literary taste, which she often shared on the podcast. Nothing was too much trouble for her, and we’re really going to miss her.
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Slightly Foxed Issue 77: From the Editors

Gail Pirkis & Hazel Wood

There’s something very particular about the quiet months after Christmas – a time to hibernate, turn round and generally take stock. That’s what we’ve been doing here at the Slightly Foxed office, tidying up after the Christmas rush, reviewing our plans for the coming year and watching spring gradually arrive in Hoxton Square as the daffodils begin to emerge and the cafés tentatively put out their tables.

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