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.
Perfectly designed to hold in the hand and with a ribbon marker to keep your place, these beautifully produced cloth-bound hardback reissues of classic memoirs bring alive a particular moment, allowing you into someone else’s world. Often these books light up a period in a way no history book can.
From the charming pre-war Dresden of Erich Kästner’s childhood to Anne Fadiman’s portrait of her wine- and book-loving father and from Diana Petre’s memoir of unfolding family secrets to Colin Clark’s fascinating behind the scenes diary featuring candid observations of Sir Lawrence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, there’s a tale for every reader. So whether you’re in need of a good book to curl up with or a present for someone you’re fond of, do seize the chance to stock up now.
With best wishes, as ever, from the SF office staff
Jess, Isabel, Rebecca & India