Books featured in Issue 66, Summer 2020

Slightly Foxed Editors’ Diary • 18 September 2020

Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood

Last Thursday was a red-letter day for me because it was that now rare thing, a real letter day. Among the catalogues, bills and offers to sell the house shoved through the letterbox was an envelope addressed in the distinctive handwriting of an old friend. For many years now, widowed and against all advice, she has lived alone in a slightly dilapidated house in a remote part of rural France, reading and rereading her favourite books, ruled over with an ‘iron paw’ by her dog and cat and subsisting on very little money. She sees a few local friends, but nowadays, she says, she tends more to reclusiveness, quoting Colin Dexter’s verdict on Inspector Morse: ‘He was somewhat of a loner by temperament – because though never wholly happy when he was alone he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.’

18 Sep 2020

Books featured in SF Issue 66

The Water-Babies

Picnic at Hanging Rock

The Family from One End Street

Billy Bud, Bartleby and Other Stories

The Merchant of Prato

Sweet Thursday

Cannery Row

The Empress of Ireland (No. 51)

The Sea, The Sea

Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia

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