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Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, Slightly Foxed is more like having a well-read friend than a literary magazine subscription.


More than just a literary magazine subscription, when you take out a subscription you (or the subscription 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 to accompany each quarterly
  • Preferential prices for books and goods
  • Offers from our partner organizations

Slightly Foxed is published four times a year, on 1 March, 1 June, 1 September and 1 December (early release for Christmas in November).

  • Our quarterly literary magazine subscriptions and gift subscriptions may be taken out for one, two or three years.
  • Our combined book and magazine subscriptions (which may be taken out for one year) include both the quarterly literary magazine and each season’s new limited-edition hardback memoir in the Slightly Foxed Editions list.

Slightly Foxed Subscriptions

We’d be delighted if you took out a subscription – for yourself or as a gift for a fellow booklover. Please take a moment to answer a few simple questions so we can ensure this subscription makes it way to our packing desk in perfect order. If you would like to take out more than one subscription you will be able to do this once you reach the end of the helper.

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Slightly Foxed Subscriptions

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

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A Taste of Slightly Foxed - Spring 2023

Slightly Foxed: 1-Year Quarterly & Editions Subscription (+ Free Digital Archive)

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Slightly Foxed: 1-Year Subscription & Back Issue Bundle (+ Free Digital Archive)

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Slightly Foxed: 2-Year Print Subscription (+ Free Digital Archive)

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Slightly Foxed: 2-Year Subscription & Back Issue Bundle (+ Free Digital Archive)

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Slightly Foxed: 3-Year Print Subscription (+ Free Digital Archive)

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Slightly Foxed: 3-Year Subscription & Back Issue Bundle (+ Free Digital Archive)

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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. You can select a delivery date when you reach the checkout.


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Subscription Summary

1 Years print & digital subscription

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A Slightly Foxed literary magazine subscription provides booklovers with a whole world of good reading throughout the year. More than just a book 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.


Although described as a book magazine or literary journal for readers, Slightly Foxed is much more like a well-read bookish friend. 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. The craftsmen printers Smith Settle in Yorkshire have been responsible for printing Slightly Foxed from the first issue. They also print and bind all the limited edition books subsequently produced by the company.

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.

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, 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 ‒ Posy Simmonds, Quentin Blake, Jackie Morris, Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, Clover Robin, Coralie Bickford-Smith and Angela Harding have all produced cover images.

Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine Spring 2023

In early 2008, in keeping with their search for forgotten voices, the company 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 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.

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.

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

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 20,000 book lovers around the world.

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