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18 October 2024

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…
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11 October 2024

‘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.
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19 September 2024

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.
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6 September 2024

‘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.
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