‘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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  • Subscriptions

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

    • Four beautifully produced printed issues of the magazine per year
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    • A printed catalogue of recommended reading each quarter
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  • Publication Dates

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    Slightly Foxed is published four times a year.

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

     

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    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 2025

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    MAGAZINE

    1 year (4 issues)

     

    – UK & EIRE incl. p&p

    • Single issues from £14.50
    • 1 year (4 issues) £56
    • 2 years (8 issues): £108

     

    – REST OF THE WORLD incl. p&p

    • Single issues from £16.50
    • 1 year (4 issues): £64
    • 2 years (8 issues): £124
  • MAGAZINE BUNDLES

    MAGAZINE BUNDLES

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

     

    – UK & EIRE incl. p&p

    • 1 year: £126
    • 2 years: £192

     

    – REST OF THE WORLD incl. p&p

    • 1 year: £144
    • 2 years: £220
  • MAGAZINE & BOOKS

    MAGAZINE & BOOKS

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

     

    – UK & EIRE incl. p&p

    • £128

     

    – REST OF THE WORLD incl. p&p

    • ROTW: £148

About Slightly Foxed

Slightly Foxed is much more like a well-read bookish friend than a literary journal or book review magazine.

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, Margaret Drabble, Olivia Potts, Jacqueline Wilson, Justin Marozzi, Diana Athill, Raffaella Barker, Mick Herron, Ursula Buchan, Amy Liptrot, Ronald Blythe, Sarah Perry and Ali Smith to name but a few) the editors also accept reviews from 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, Lou Tonkin, Saied Dai, John Caple, Gary Bunt, 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 in 2004 has since grown steadily into a well-regarded literary magazine, an independent publishing house, and a readership of some 30,000 or more 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])

Graham Greene, A Sort of Life - Plain Foxed Edition

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, including Adrian Bell’s popular Countryman’s Notebooks and literary gifts for booklovers. The range currently includes clothbound notebooks, bookplates, postcards, christmas cards and book bags.

 

‘Slightly Foxed appears quarterly and reminds one, in elegantly crafted essays, of books that have been lost or ignored but which are still worth reading. Slightly Foxed cries out to be devoured the moment it drops through the letter box. It is beautifully designed and printed on gorgeous cream paper.’ Alexander McCall Smith

 

In case you haven’t come across it, Slightly Foxed is an unusual book review. Companionable and unstuffy, each quarter it offers 96 pages of lively personal recommendations for books of lasting interest – books that have stood the test of time and have left their mark on the people who write about them. It’s an eclectic mix, covering all the main categories of fiction and non- fiction, and our contributors are an eclectic bunch too. Some of them are names you’ll have heard of, some not, but all write thoughtfully, elegantly and entertainingly.

In recent issues: SARAH PERRY receives a brief lesson in physics • SAM LEITH crosses the Atlantic with a Dean of crime fiction • YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM takes notes from a Provincial Lady • TIM PEARS self-medicates with a sparkling French novel • FELICITY JAMES is seduced by an Updike couple • MARGARET DRABBLE travels to Italy • JUSTIN MAROZZI embarks on a Salter sojourn • ISABEL LLOYD faces the long tail of war • GRANT MCINTYRE meets a man who’s walked on the moon • RAFFAELLA BARKER remembers her extraordinary mother, and much more besides . . .

 

A subscription opens up a whole world of good reading. It includes 4 printed issues per year, access to the digital archive of 20 years’ worth of back issues, discounts on all books and goods in our online shop, invitations to events, and offers from partners such as The London Library, various bookshops, museums and festivals.

‘If you need a good gift for someone who loves to read – or if you love to read and want a little treat for yourself, check out the delightful Slightly Foxed. For people who read a lot, it can be hard to find new suggestions, and every time I read Slightly Foxed, I add several titles to my list.’ Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

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