‘The arrival of a new issue of Slightly Foxed makes me drop everything. I read it from cover to cover and it immediately sends me off to order a number of the books that it features. Slightly Foxed is a brilliant idea, beautifully realized.’ Alexander McCall Smith

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Slightly Foxed: 1-Year Print Subscription (+ Free Digital Archive)

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Subscription Information

  • Subscriptions

    Subscriptions

    When you take out a subscription you (or the gift recipient) will receive:

    • Four beautifully produced printed issues of the magazine per year
    • Online access to the full digital archive of back issues
    • A printed catalogue of recommended reading each quarter
    • Preferential prices for books and goods
    • Offers from our partner organizations

     

    NB We offer a 10% discount to readers aged 30 and under on all subscription rates

    We keep all of the back issues in print and they can be ordered individually or in sets.

    You can also subscribe to receive our latest cloth-bound limited-edition memoir each quarter. Please go through the subscription helper for details.

  • Publication Dates

    Publication Dates

    Slightly Foxed is published four times a year.

    • 1 March (spring)
    • 1 June (summer)
    • 1 September (autumn)
    • 1 December (winter)

     

    For subscriptions starting with future issues, a membership card (and gift message, if applicable) can either be sent out in advance of the issue or be sent together with the issue at a later date.

     

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    NB The winter issue is always released  early (in mid November) to ensure that gift subscriptions have the best chance of landing with readers around the world in good time for Christmas.

  • Benefits

    Benefits

    Our partners include The London Library, various bookshops, museums and festivals. Subscribers also receive invitations to events and preferential prices for books and goods across the whole Slightly Foxed online shop

    Please click here to view a full list of current offers for subscribers from our partners.

Prices 2024/2025

  • MAGAZINE

    MAGAZINE

    1 year (4 issues)

     

    – UK & EIRE incl. p&p

    • Single issues from £14.50
    • 1 year (4 issues) £56 *Save <£8
    • 2 years (8 issues): £108 *Save <£20
    •  3 years (12 issues) £160 *Save <£32

     

    – REST OF THE WORLD incl. p&p

    • Single issues from £16.50
    • 1 year (4 issues): £64 *Save <£8
    • 2 years (8 issues): £124 *Save <£20
    •  3 years (12 issues): £184  *Save <£32
  • MAGAZINE & BOOKS

    MAGAZINE & BOOKS

    1 year (4 issues) and 4 cloth-bound limited-edition memoirs

     

    – UK & EIRE incl. p&p

    • £128 *Save <£8

     

    – REST OF THE WORLD incl. p&p

    • ROTW: £148 *Save <£8
  • BUNDLES

    BUNDLES

    4 issues and 1 slipcase per year plus a set of the 4 most recent back issues incl. p&p

     

    – UK & EIRE incl. p&p

    • 1 year: £126 *Save <£8
    • 2 years: £192 *Save <£20
    • 3 years: £258 *Save <£32

     

    – REST OF THE WORLD incl. p&p

    • 1 year: £144 *Save <£8
    • 2 years: £220 *Save <£20
    • 3 years: £296 *Save <£32

About Slightly Foxed

 

Although described as a book magazine or literary journal for readers, Slightly Foxed is much more like a well-read bookish friend.

Each issue of Slightly Foxed contains around 16 essays on books and authors and encompasses a wide variety of genres. Open a copy at random, turn to the bibliography, and there you’ll find an eclectic mix of titles, fiction and non-fiction, books old and new ‒ novels, travel, memoirs, history, poetry, children’s books, letters, cookery, the countryside and even dictionaries and quirky instruction manuals alongside articles on subjects such as libraries, editing, bookplates, blurb-writing or tributes to favourite bookshops. This diverse range makes it the perfect companion for curious and adventurous readers . . .

Printed on fine cream paper and beautifully illustrated, it has the look and feel of a slim paperback, while its content and presentation reflect the editors’ belief that there are many more books worth reading than those featured on the bestseller lists.

Authors are paid for all contributions and although many contributors are published and often well-known (Robert Macfarlane, Penelope Lively, Adam Foulds, P. D. James, Melissa Harrison, Tim Pears, Richard Mabey, Sam Leith, Olivia Potts, Jacqueline Wilson, Diana Athill, Ursula Buchan, Amy Liptrot, Ronald Blythe and Ali Smith to name but a few) the editors also accept interesting reviews from our readers and the general public . . .

All artwork is commissioned by the editors and some of the unique and much-admired images have been successfully reproduced on cards, tea-towels, a calendar and postcards. Works by Posy Simmonds, Quentin Blake, Jackie Morris, Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, Clover Robin, Coralie Bickford-Smith, John Caple, Gary Bunt, James Nunn, Debbie George, Angela Harding and many others have graced the magazine’s cover. The craftsmen printers Smith Settle in Yorkshire have been responsible for printing Slightly Foxed from the first issue. They also print and bind all of our limited-edition books.

More than just a literary review magazine, a Slightly Foxed subscription gives readers access to the full digital archive of back issues of the literary journal, as well as membership benefits from our partners and special rates on purchases of Slightly Foxed books and on our book subscription services for adults and children.

What began with just a few hundred like-minded subscribers whose issues were dispatched from the kitchen table has since grown steadily into a well-regarded literary magazine, an independent publishing house, and a readership of over 30,000 book lovers around the world.

Slightly Foxed Editions

In early 2008, in keeping with their search for forgotten voices, we decided to launch a series of pocket-sized cloth-bound hardback reprints, Slightly Foxed Editions. Also produced quarterly, these handsome little books are each published in a hand-numbered limited edition of 2,000, among them memoirs by Edward Ardizzone, Roald Dahl, Gerald Durrell, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Graham Greene, Helene Hanff, Laurie Lee, James Lees-Milne, Hilary Mantel, Gavin Maxwell, Jessica Mitford, Eric Newby, V. S. Pritchett, Gwen Raverat, Dodie Smith and Rosemary Sutcliff, among others.

Many readers are signed up to receive the Slightly Foxed Editions via our book subscription service for themselves, or as a bookish gift for a fellow booklover.

You can browse and buy a range of online book subscription gifts and other bookish gift ideas for adults on the Sets & Bundles page. You can also telephone or email the office to arrange a subscription. (+44 (0) 20 7033 0258; [email protected])

A Set of Plain Foxed Editions - Summer 2021

Plain Foxed Editions

A number of the Slightly Foxed Editions have been so successful that a reprint series was launched in 2011 and the most popular titles are now available again as elegant clothbound hardback Plain Foxed Editions.

A Set of Rosemary Sutcliff Novels - Slightly Foxed Cubs

Slightly Foxed Cubs

Slightly Foxed Cubs – a children’s series created initially to reissue Ronald Welch’s fine series of historical adventure novels featuring the Carey family – was launched in 2013 with Knight Crusader and now includes 14 of Welch’s works as well as a set of 7 Roman and post-Roman novels by Rosemary Sutcliff and a trio of BB’s classic nature novels: Brendon Chase; The Little Grey Men and Down the Bright Stream.

You can browse and buy a range of book subscription gifts for children on the Sets & Bundles page.

Roger Hudson, An Englishman's Commonplace Book

Special Releases

Slightly Foxed also produces occasional special edition books and Commonplace books, and a range of ideal literary gifts for booklovers. The range currently includes clothbound notebooks, bookplates, postcards, christmas cards and book bags.

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