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In this issue: Daisy Hay runs riot with Dickens • Alan Bradley stands up for purple prose • Hazel Wood meets an uncommon reader • Frances Donnelly finds a gap in the alphabet • Justin Marozzi is charmed by a modest mountaineer • Anne Boston gets the shivers in Cold War Siberia • Nigel Andrew wonders what happened to Elizabeth Jenkins • Sue Gaisford is seduced by a wicked Earl • Laurence Scott gets out his guitar • Sue Gee meets the man who drew Pooh • Richard Platt is gripped by the story of a lost will • Victoria Neumark goes in search of unicorns • Alastair Glegg says a belated thank you, and much more besides . . .
A Dickens of a Riot • DAISY HAY
Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
Between the Lines • SUE GEE
E. H. Shepard, Drawn from Memory & Drawn from Life
From Bloomsbury . . . • ALAN BRADLEY
Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader
. . . to Buckingham Palace • HAZEL WOOD
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
Rock, Root and Bird • JUSTIN MAROZZI
Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain
Keeping Ahead of the Game • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
Anon., Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Russian Roulette • ANNE BOSTON
Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights
Incorrigible and Irresistible • SUE GAISFORD
The letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
A Modern Pied Piper • MAGGIE FERGUSSON
An interview with Michael Morpurgo
Histories of the Soul • CHRISTIAN TYLER
The works of Svetlana Alexievich
Whatever Happened to Elizabeth Jenkins? • NIGEL ANDREW
The novels of Elizabeth Jenkins
In Search of Unicorns • VICTORIA NEUMARK
Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse & Linnets and Valerians
Grave Expectations • RICHARD PLATT
Charles Palliser, The Quincunx
Kinsey Makes a Difference • FRANCES DONNELLY
Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone Alphabet novels
The Next Bob Dylan • Laurence Scott
Bert Weedon, Play in a Day
Unsung Heroes • ALASTAIR GLEGG
Learning to read at prep school
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
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- Alexievich, Svetlana
- Andrew, Nigel
- Anon.
- Bennett, Alan
- Boston, Anne
- Bradley, Alan
- Davidson, Lionel
- Dickens, Charles
- Donnelly, Frances
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Gaisford, Sue
- Gee, Sue
- Glegg, Alastair
- Goudge, Elizabeth
- Grafton, Sue
- Hay, Daisy
- Jenkins, Elizabeth
- Learning to read at prep school
- Marozzi, Justin
- Morpurgo, Michael
- Neumark, Victoria
- Palliser, Charles
- Platt, Richard
- Rush, Christopher
- Scott, Laurence
- Shepard, E. H.
- Shepherd, Nan
- Simmonds, Posy
- Treglown, Jeremy
- Tyler, Christian
- Watson, John
- Weedon, Bert
- Wood, Hazel
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wormell, Chris
Open up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review.
In this issue: Margaret Drabble travels with Trollope • Kristian Doyle eavesdrops in Manhattan • Sue Gaisford is gripped by the Asquiths’ wartime letters • Ken Haigh takes to the open road with Mr Polly • Kate Tyte goes Gothic • Michael Leapman meets an unexpectedly good-tempered gardener • Hazel Wood enters the Tiger’s cage • Richard Crockatt leaves the Magic Mountain • Helena Drysdale goes back to nature • Martin Sorrell witnesses a plague in Oran • Michael Barber smells murder in Moscow, and much more besides.
Manhattan Moments • KRISTIAN DOYLE
Maeve Brennan, The Long-winded Lady
Tiger the Literary Lion • HAZEL WOOD
Jennie Erdal, Ghosting
A Peak Experience • RICHARD CROCKATT
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Growing up on Edwardian • ANTHONY GARDNER
Osbert Lancaster, All Done from Memory & With an Eye to the Future
Forest School • HELENA DRYSDALE
BB, Brendon Chase
Trollope’s Ireland • MARGARET DRABBLE
The Irish novels of Anthony Trollope
Mr Polly Walks to Freedom • KEN HAIGH
H. G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
Cogs in a Fighting Machine • HENRY JEFFREYS
Len Deighton, Bomber
Grinning at the Devil • KATE TYTE
Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales
Father Figures • MARTIN SORRELL
Albert Camus, The Plague
In a Class of Their Own • PATRICK WELLAND
Graham Greene (ed.), The Old School
Front Lines • SUE GAISFORD
H. H. Asquith, Letters to Venetia Stanley & Raymond Asquith, Life and Letters
Moscow Under Terror • MICHAEL BARBER
A 1937 guidebook to Moscow
Trips to the Past • SOPHIE BREESE
Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand
A Well-tempered Gardener • MICHAEL LEAPMAN
The garden writings of Christopher Lloyd
The Missing Librarian • C. J. WRIGHT
Escaping the British Museum’s Department of Printed Books
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Asquith, H. H.
- Asquith, Raymond
- Barber, Michael
- BB
- Bowman, John
- Breese, Sophie
- Brennan, Maeve
- Camus, Albert
- Crockatt, Richard
- Deighton, Len
- Dinesen, Isak
- Doyle, Kristian
- Drabble, Margaret
- Drysdale, Helena
- Du Maurier, Daphne
- Erdal, Jennie
- Gaisford, Sue
- Gardner, Anthony
- Greene, Graham
- Guide to the city of Moscow, 1937
- Haigh, Ken
- Jeffreys, Henry
- Lancaster, Osbert
- Leapman, Michael
- Lloyd, Christopher
- Mann, Thomas
- North, Luna
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Sorrell, Martin
- Trollope, Anthony
- Tyte, Kate
- Watkins-Pitchford, Denys [‘BB’]
- Watson, John
- Welland, Patrick
- Wells, H. G.
- Wood, Hazel
- Wright, C. J.
Cover Artist: Issue 59, Luna North, Beechnuts
Luna North trained at the Falmouth School of Art. She now lives in Devon where she specializes in printmaking. The images in her linocuts of native flora and fauna are inspired by the wild landscape...
Read more‘Opening Slightly Foxed triggered one of those moments when you have to ask yourself, “How it is possible that I did not know this existed until now?”. . . it will likely give you a lot of ideas of things you’d like to read someday, but it’s also enjoyable to just read someone’s description and stories about a book they love.’ Books, The Universe & Everything
Open up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review.
In this issue: Helen MacEwan is touched by the life of William Cowper • Christopher Rush finds much to be gained from Paradise Lost • Maggie Fergusson talks travel with Colin Thubron • Andy Merrills has a brush with some beards • Ann Kennedy Smith meets E. M. Forster’s great-aunt • Ariane Bankes explores Trieste with Jan Morris • Robin Blake recommends some spiritual reading • Sarah Perry gets to the roots of Englishness • Patrick Welland witnesses power struggles in Ancient Rome • Julie Welch joins the Pony Club and much more besides . . .
A Snatch of Morning • HELEN MACEWAN
David Cecil, The Stricken Deer
Sprouts and Parsnip Wine • SARAH PERRY
John Moore, The Blue Field
The Price of Power • PATRICK WELLAND
John Williams, Augustus
Travelling Fearlessly • MAGGIE FERGUSSON
The travel writing of Colin Thubron
An Epic Achievement • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Pony-mad • JULIE WELCH
Ruby Ferguson’s ‘Jill’ books
Hands across the Tea-shop Table • SUE GEE
Elizabeth Taylor, A Game of Hide and Seek
Marcel • ANTHONY WELLS
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Streams of Consciousness • RICHARD PLATT
Henry Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Prayers before Plenty • ANN KENNEDY SMITH
E. M. Forster, Marianne Thornton, 1707–1887
Spiritual Reading • ROBIN BLAKE
H. F. M. Prescott, The Man on a Donkey
Holding a Mirror • JOHN CONYNGHAM
William Plomer, Turbott Wolfe
Man on the Run • DEREK COLLETT
John Mair, Never Come Back
Melancholy but Marvellous • ARIANE BANKES
Jan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Hair Today and Gone Tomorrow • ANDY MERRILLS
Reginald Reynolds, Beards: An Omnium Gatherum
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Bankes, Ariane
- Beauman, Nicola
- Blake, Robin
- Carey, John
- Cecil, David
- Collett, Derek
- Conyngham, John
- Ferguson, Ruby
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Forster, E. M.
- Gee, Sue
- George, Debbie
- MacEwan, Helen
- Mair, John
- Merrills, Andrew
- Milton, John
- Moore, John
- Morris, Jan
- Perry, Sarah
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Platt, Richard
- Plomer, William
- Prescott, H. F. M.
- Proust, Marcel
- Reynolds, Reginald
- Rush, Christopher
- Smith, Ann Kennedy
- Taylor, Elizabeth
- Thoreau, Henry
- Thubron, Colin
- Watson, John
- Welch, Julie
- Welland, Patrick
- Wells, Anthony
- Williams, John
‘In the pages of Slightly Foxed I have found my people . . .’
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Open up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review.
In this issue: Jane Ridley meets the Queen • Derek Parker socializes with Eddie Marsh • Amanda Theunissen joins the quest for Kim • Richard Holloway finds redemption in art • Penelope Lively hears voices from the past • Anthony Wells continues his search for lost time • Laura Freeman discovers the tragedy behind the work of A. A. Milne • Michael Leapman sticks up (and sits down) for George Bernard Shaw • Ariane Bankes snaps up something wholesale, and much more besides . . .
Contents
A Crowning Achievement • JANE RIDLEY
Ben Pimlott, The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy
Misadventures in the Rag Trade • ARIANE BANKES
Eric Newby, Something Wholesale
Dying for a Dream • ROMESH GUNESEKERA
José Rizal, Noli Me Tangere
Let’s Bofe • LAURA FREEMAN
A.A. Milne, It’s Too Late Now
Out of the Celtic Twilight • ANTHONY GARDNER
Lord Dunsany, The Curse of the Wise Woman
Wit and Truth • ROGER HUDSON
The letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Small Player in the Great Game • AMANDA THEUNISSEN
Rudyard Kipling, Kim & Peter Hopkirk, Quest for Kim
A Queer Parish • ANTHONY LONGDEN
Ruth Adam, A House in the Country
Making Manifest • RICHARD HOLLOWAY
André Schwarz-Bart, The Last of the Just
Dere Diary . . . • PETER PARKER
A Victorian Schoolboy in London: The Diary of Ernest Baker
A Tasmanian Tragedy • PENELOPE LIVELY
Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
High Society, Low Life • ANTHONY WELLS
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Journey to the Interior • KEN HAIGH
Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Man Who Enjoyed Everything • DEREK PARKER
Edward Marsh, A Number of People
A Boy in a Tattered Coat • ANN WROE
Henry Williamson, The Star-Born
GBS and Me • MICHAEL LEAPMAN
Watching the plays of George Bernard Shaw
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Adam, Ruth
- Bankes, Ariane
- Basho, Matsuo
- Dalby, Claire
- Dunsany, Lord
- Freeman, Laura
- Gardner, Anthony
- Gunesekera, Romesh
- Haigh, Ken
- Holloway, Richard
- Hopkirk, Peter
- Hudson, Roger
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Kneale, Matthew
- Leapman, Michael
- Lively, Penelope
- Longden, Anthony
- Marsh, Edward
- Martineau, Luke
- Milne, A. A.
- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
- Newby, Eric
- Parker, Derek
- Parker, Peter
- Pimlott, Ben
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Proust, Marcel
- Ridley, Jane
- Rizal, José
- Rogers, David
- Schwarz-Bart, André
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Theunissen, Amanda
- Watson, John
- Welch, Ronald
- Wells, Anthony
- Williamson, Henry
- Wroe, Ann
‘A great present for someone who likes books, and for who you can never think of a remotely suitable present … the magazine is rather like that voice you always hope to hear behind you in old bookshops … “Ah now that’s an interesting one”.’ Miles Kington, Independent
Open up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review.
In this issue: Anthony Wells goes in search of Proust • Ysenda Maxtone Graham mourns the passing of a great Children’s Encyclopedia • Brandon Robshaw introduces the real George Orwell • Morag MacInnes has a laugh with Frank Reynolds • Daisy Hay admits to being a Chalet girl • Michael Holroyd wonders why he became a biographer • Sue Gee meets the author of Emil and the Detectives • William Palmer gets to know Mr Lear • Matt Huber takes off with Gavin Lyall . . .
Contents
Making the Best of It • WILLIAM PALMER
Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer
48 Königsbrücker Strasse • SUE GEE
Erich Kästner, When I Was a Little Boy
Introducing M. Swann • ANTHONY WELLS
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Secrets of the Hive • NICHOLAS ASPREY
Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee
Aerobatics • MATT HUBER
The aviation thrillers of Gavin Lyall
A Writer in Hiding • KATE JONES
The novels of A. L. Barker
Sixty Years On • MICHAEL BARBER
The Dragon Book of Verse
No Coward Soul • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Packing a Punch • MORAG MACINNES
The cartoons of Frank Reynolds
An Extraordinary Ordinary Bloke • BRANDON ROBSHAW
The essays of George Orwell
Well-Salted • YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
The Oxford Junior Encyclopedia
A Different Kind of Wealth • CHRIS SAUNDERS
Robert Francis, Travelling in Amherst
Brief Encounters • HORACE ANNESLEY
Spencer Somers, Tea at Florian’s
Chalet Girls • DAISY HAY
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School books
Harvey Learns the Ropes • ANDREW JOYNES
Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
Lives and Letters • MICHAEL HOLROYD
On becoming a biographer
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
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- Annesley, Horace
- Asprey, Nicholas
- Barber, Michael
- Barker, A. L.
- Biography
- Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.
- Brontë, Emily
- Curtis, Clare
- Dragon Book of Verse, The
- Francis, Robert
- Gee, Sue
- Graham, Ysenda Maxtone
- Harrison, Michael & Stuart-Clark, Christopher (eds.)
- Hay, Daisy
- Holroyd, Michael
- Huber, Matt
- Jones, Kate
- Joynes, Andrew
- Kästner, Erich
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Lear, Edward
- Lyall, Gavin
- Macgregor, Miriam
- MacInnes, Morag
- Maeterlinck, Maurice
- Noakes, Vivien
- Orwell, George
- Oxford Junior Encyclopedia
- Palmer, William
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Proust, Marcel
- Reynolds, Frank
- Robshaw, Brandon
- Rush, Christopher
- Saunders, Chris
- Somers, Spencer
- Stuart-Clark, Christopher & Harrison, Michael (eds.)
- Trench, Anna
- Watson, John
- Wells, Anthony
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Read moreOpen up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review . . .
In this issue
Anthony Longden enjoys the work of an irreverent Reverend • Ursula Buchan joins Richard Hillary at Fighter Command • Kate Tyte encounters a troublesome priest • David Gilmour follows Kipling to Simla • Jane Feaver remembers life at Faber & Faber • William Palmer examines Zeno’s conscience • Helena Drysdale goes upstream with The Little Grey Men • Patrick Welland meets an aristocratic cross-dresser • Sue Gee learns the language of exile . . .
Contents & Bibliography
Billiards, Tobacco and Wine • ANTHONY LONGDEN
Cuthbert Bede, The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green
A Confrontation with Evil • URSULA BUCHAN
Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy
Seeing Differently • ADAM FOULDS
The Collected Poems of Geoffrey Hill
In Search of Home • SUE GEE
Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation
Beside the Folly Brook • HELENA DRYSDALE
BB, The Little Grey Men & Down the Bright Stream
Labourers in Fetters • ROGER JONES
George Gissing, New Grub Street
Scandalous Tales from the Hills • DAVID GILMOUR
The Indian stories and poems of Rudyard Kipling
Her Own Mistress • VICTORIA NEUMARK
Margaret Irwin’s Tudor novels
Ridiculously Rich • PATRICK WELLAND
Felix Youssoupoff, Lost Splendour
Trouble at the Convent • KATE TYTE
Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun
Not So Cosy After All? • ANDY MERRILLS
Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce novels
Life on the Fringe • JEREMY LEWIS
George Moore, Esther Waters
May Roses in Winter • WILLIAM PALMER
Italo Svevo, Zeno’s Conscience
The Big-hearted Little Duke • LINDA KELLY
Charlotte M. Yonge, The Little Duke
Getting to Know the Colonel • PAUL CHEESERIGHT
André Maurois, The Silence of Colonel Bramble
Through the Looking Glass • JANE FEAVER
Life at Faber and Faber
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
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- BB
- Bede, Cuthbert
- Bradley, Alan (author)
- Buchan, Ursula
- Cheeseright, Paul
- Drysdale, Helena
- Feaver, Jane
- Foulds, Adam
- Gee, Sue
- Gilmour, David
- Gissing, George
- Hill, Geoffrey
- Hillary, Richard
- Hoffman, Eva
- Huxley, Aldous
- Irwin, Margaret
- Jones, Roger
- Kelly, Linda
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Lemaire, Angela
- Lewis, Jemma
- Lewis, Jeremy
- Longden, Anthony
- Maurois, André
- Merrills, Andrew
- Moore, George
- Neumark, Victoria
- Palmer, William
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Svevo, Italo
- Trench, Anna
- Tyte, Kate
- Watkins-Pitchford, Denys [‘BB’]
- Watson, John
- Welland, Patrick
- Yonge, Charlotte M.
- Youssoupoff, Felix
‘It brought back to me all the magical delight that my mother and I shared . . .’
‘I have just opened my newly delivered Slightly Foxed and gone straight to the article about The Little Grey Men and Down the Bright Stream. It has brought back to me all the magical delight that...
Read moreThrough the Looking Glass
By the end of the 1980s, in my mid-twenties, I’d been through university, a stint of unemployment, a couple of tread-water jobs, and come to a halt, a despondent Is this it? Not knowing what I...
Read moreCover Artist: Issue 55, Jemma Lewis, Hand-marbled paper, ‘Bloomsbury Blue & Orange Botanical’
After graduating in Textile Art in Norwich Jemma Lewis worked for several years at a local bookbinding firm where she became fascinated with the marbled papers found on the binding of antiquarian...
Read more‘In the pages of Slightly Foxed I have found my people . . .’
‘The current SF has many treasures; I’m especially struck by Sarah Perry’s piece on The Blue Field – I adore these blue flowers, admire Sarah Perry, and love ‘the Englishness of parsnip...
Read moreOpen up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review . . .
In this issue
Ysenda Maxtone Graham joins an unlikely couple on the road to Kashgar • Constantine Fraser discovers Old Salonika in a cookbook • Maggie Fergusson discusses writing and serendipity with Ali Smith • Ken Haigh snatches a quiet moment on the river bank • Frost in May gives Melissa Harrison the shivers • Colin Williams digs in on Watership Down • Cecily Blench uncovers her grandmother’s Indian past • Nigel Jarrett scratches his head over The Elements of Style • Elisabeth Russell Taylor is invigorated by The Wild Irish Girl • Andrew Nixon spends a summer in Tilling . . .
Contents & Bibliography
An Unlikely Duo • YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
Peter Fleming, News from Tartary & Ella Maillart, Forbidden Journey
Ploughing On • HAZEL WOOD
Adrian Bell, The Cherry Tree
Strunking It • NIGEL JARRETT
Strunk & White, The Elements of Style
Once a Catholic . . . • MELISSA HARRISON
Antonia White, Frost in May
Up on the Down • COLIN WILLIAMS
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Inspired by Kipling • DAVID GILMOUR
The Indian stories and poems of Rudyard Kipling
Keeping It Real • MAGGIE FERGUSSON
An interview with the novelist Ali Smith
Speaking Volumes • CONSTANTINE FRASER
Eden & Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook
Everyday Mysteries • MICHAEL HOLROYD
The writings of John Stewart Collis
Stranger in Paradise • JOHN KEAY
Nicolas Bouvier, The Scorpion-Fish
‘Study to be quiet’ • KEN HAIGH
Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
Sparkling Sydney • ELISABETH RUSSELL-TAYLOR
Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl
First-rate Monsters • ANDREW NIXON
E. F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia novels
Word from the Wood • GALEN O’HANLON
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Grandmother’s Footsteps • CECILY BLENCH
Angela Bolton, The Maturing Sun
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
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- Adams, Richard
- Bell, Adrian
- Benson, E. F.
- Blench, Cecily
- Bolton, Angela
- Bouvier, Nicolas
- Collis, John Stewart
- Douglas, Oliver Akers
- Eden, Esin & Stavroulakis, Nicholas
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Fleming, Peter
- Fraser, Constantine
- Gilmour, David
- Graham, Ysenda Maxtone
- Haigh, Ken
- Harrison, Melissa
- Holroyd, Michael
- Jarrett, Nigel
- Keay, John
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Leopold, Aldo
- Maillart, Ella
- Nixon, Andrew
- O’Hanlon, Galen
- Owenson, Sydney
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Smith, Ali
- Stavroulakis, Nicholas & Eden, Esin
- Strunk Jr., William & White, E.B.
- Taylor, Elisabeth Russell
- Walton, Izaak
- White, Antonia
- White, E.B. & Strunk Jr., William
- Williams, Colin
- Wood, Hazel
Slightly Foxed Issue 54: From the Editors
The trees are in full deep green leaf now, making a small oasis of Hoxton Square, while not fifty yards away the traffic roars past along Old Street. New regulations to cut down air pollution in...
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Adam Sisman accompanies George Smiley to The Circus • Alexandra Harris is moved by William Cowper’s letters • Jim McCue takes T. S. Eliot at his word • Maggie Fergusson lays ghosts with Hilary Mantel • Anthony Gardner examines the business of loving • Isabel Lloyd follows the way of the actor • Robin Blake maps out his reading • Pamela Beasant sees Orkney through fresh eyes • Charles Elliott mourns the lost world of the Xhosa • Katie Grant enjoys a Ruritanian adventure • David Beanland joins Arthur Ransome on the river bank • and much, much more . . .
Contents & Bibliography
Circus Tricks • ADAM SISMAN
John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
A Flickering on the Staircase • MAGGIE FERGUSSON
Hilary Mantel, Giving up the Ghost
Moments of Truth • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Dog Days • SARAH LAWSON
Albert Payson Terhune, Lad: A Dog
The Abyss Beyond the Orchard • ALEXANDRA HARRIS
The letters of William Cowper
Stage Lightning • ISABEL LLOYD
Brian Bates, The Way of the Actor
A Lesson in Living • ALISON LIGHT
John McGahern, The Barracks
The Price of Revolution • CHRISTIAN TYLER
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Bloody Conquest • CHARLES ELLIOTT
Noël Mostert, Frontiers
Taking the Poet at His Word • JIM McCUE
Editing The Poems of T. S. Eliot
A Ghost in the Green Room • SARAH CROWDEN
J. B. Priestley, Jenny Villiers
Reading Maps • ROBIN BLAKE
On maps in books
Trouble in Ruritania • KATIE GRANT
Violet Needham, The Black Riders
Angling for a Bit of Peace • DAVID BEANLAND
Arthur Ransome, Rod & Line
Age of Innocence • ANTHONY GARDNER
Godfrey Smith, The Business of Loving
Song of the Islands • PAMELA BEASANT
George Mackay Brown, An Orkney Tapestry
Time Out of War • JEREMY LEWIS
Robert Kee, A Crowd Is Not Company
Along the Old Ways • URSULA BUCHAN
W. H. Hudson, A Shepherd’s Life
The Book Cure • KEN HAIGH
Rediscovering the love of reading
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- Bates, Brian
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- Beasant, Pamela
- Blake, Robin
- Brown, George Mackay
- Buchan, Ursula
- Cowper, William
- Elliott, Charles
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Gardner, Anthony
- Grant, Katie
- Haigh, Ken
- Harris, Alexandra
- Hudson, W. H.
- Kee, Robert
- Lawson, Sarah
- Le Carré, John
- Lewis, Jeremy
- Light, Alison
- Lloyd, Isabel
- Mantel, Hilary
- Maps in books
- McCue, Jim
- McGahern, John
- Mostert, Noël
- Needham, Violet
- Pattullo, Alice
- Ransome, Arthur
- Rebanks, James
- Rediscovering the love of reading
- Ricks, Christopher & McCue, Jim
- Rush, Christopher
- Sisman, Adam
- Smith, Godfrey
- Terhune, Albert Payson
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Welch, Ronald
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Read moreThe independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.
In this issue
Nicola Shulman goes back to boarding-school • Oliver Pritchett lists the merits of Roget’s Thesaurus • Sarah Perry follows the fortunes of the Cazalets • Michael Holroyd is caught up in a royal romance • Jane Ridley sets sail with Beatty and Jellicoe • Ranjit Bolt joins The Rotters’ Club • Brandon Robshaw plays detective with Margery Allingham • Lucy Lethbridge finds sustenance in Food in England • Christian Tyler sees Russia through the eyes of Doctor Zhivago • Maggie Fergusson unravels threads of memory with P. D. James • and much, much more . . .
Contents & Bibliography
A Gentleman on the Case • BRANDON ROBSHAW
The Albert Campion novels of Margery Allingham
Old Girls and Very Old Girls • NICOLA SHULMAN
Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Terms & Conditions
The Writing on the Wall • RANJIT BOLT
Jonathan Coe, The Rotters’ Club
That Essex Boy • MICHAEL HOLROYD
Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex
At Home with the Cazalets • SARAH PERRY
Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles
How We Lived Then • LUCY LETHBRIDGE
Dorothy Hartley, Food in England
Chesterton’s Spell • GORDON BOWKER
G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles
The Price of Revolution • CHRISTIAN TYLER
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Sunk by the Signal Book • JANE RIDLEY
Andrew Gordon, The Rules of the Game
Well Earthed • RICHARD PLATT
David Grayson, Adventures in Contentment
A Ghost in the Green Room • SARAH CROWDEN
J. B. Priestley, Jenny Villiers
The Threads of Memory • MAGGIE FERGUSSON
P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
Glorious Gossip • ROGER HUDSON
The Creevey Papers
Myth and Magic • SOPHIE BREESE
Susan Cooper’s ‘The Dark is Rising’ quintet
Goings-on in the Garden of Eden • WILLIAM PALMER
P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime
He Had His Little Lists • OLIVER PRITCHETT
Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus
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Croquet
‘One blazing sunny afternoon he finds himself for some inexplicable reason playing a game of croquet. He is a poor player up against a very good one, but he takes this as a pretext to expound a...
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‘All happy families resemble one another,’ said Tolstoy, rather sweepingly, ‘but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Anna Karenina principle has so long been taken for a...
Read moreCover Artist: Issue 52, Mark Hearld, ‘Papercut Foxes’
Born in 1974, Mark Hearld studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art and then completed an MA in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Taking his inspiration from the flora and...
Read more‘Thank you so much for the review of the Cazalet Chronicles . . .’
‘Thank you so much for the review of the Cazalet Chronicles last year. On the basis of that I have now read all five, my mother is enjoying them also, and my eldest sister is next in line. None of...
Read moreIn this issue
Michael Barber hangs out on the Maginot Line • Ursula Buchan follows Montrose to the Borders • Patrick Welland explains the Singapore Grip • Amanda Theunissen meets a revolutionary with a sense of fun • Henry Jeffreys relives his university days with David Lodge • Daisy Hay finds Mary Wollstonecraft very contemporary • Derek Collett sits in on some psychiatric sessions • Victoria Neumark asks ‘Goodbye to all what?’ • Derek Parker goes backstage with some extremely old actors • and much, much more . . .
Bibliography etc.
Balchin, Nigel: Mine Own Executioner
Books, obscure, the pleasure of
Buchan, John: Montrose
Buchan, John: Witch Wood
Church, Richard: Over the Bridge
Farrell, J. G. The Singapore Grip
Fitzgerald, Penelope: Charlotte Mew and Her Friends
Graves, Robert: Goodbye to All That
Herzen, Alexander: My Past and Thoughts
Herzen, Alexander: Childhood, Youth and Exile
Lightman, Alan: Einstein’s Dreams
Lodge, David: Changing Places
Lodge, David: Nice Work
Lodge, David: Small World
Mantel, Hilary: A Place of Greater Safety
Rhodes, Anthony: Sword of Bone
Rhys, Jean: Quartet
Rhys, Jean: Voyage in the Dark
Strindberg, August: The People of Hems
Walker, Ted: The Last of England
Wollstonecraft, Mary: Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.
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- Fergusson, Maggie
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- Neumark, Victoria
- Obscure books
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- Proulx, E. Annie
- Rhodes, Anthony
- Rhodes, Dan
- Rhys, Jean
- Roberts, Cecil
- Royal Society of Literature, The
- Sorrell, Martin
- South, Christopher
- Spiller, David
- Strindberg, August
- Swift, Jonathan
- Swift, Katherine
- Theunissen, Amanda
- Valentine, Mark
- Walker, Ted
- Welland, Patrick
- Willis, Rebecca
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
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Read moreHanging Out on the Maginot Line
In 1989 I was commissioned to write and present a programme about the Phoney War for BBC Radio 4. My research took me to the Imperial War Museum’s sound archives and the testimony of a Dunkirk...
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Read moreIn this issue
Michael Holroyd enters the scary world of novelist Dan Rhodes • Liz Forsyth hits the trail that led to Brokeback Mountain • Richard Mabey shares Lesley Blanch’s gastronomic adventures • Sue Gee finds life is changing in 1930s rural England • Robin Blake follows Gulliver on his travels • Sue Gaisford discovers Who’s Who in Grunty Fen • Patrick Welland returns to the Raj with J. G. Farrell • Laura Freeman remembers the romance Elizabeth David preferred to forget • Gary Mead seeks a cure for depression • Alexandra Harris watches the making of a Shropshire garden . . .
Bibliography etc.
Atkinson, Robert: Island Going; Quest for the Griffon; Shillay and the Seals
Blanch, Lesley: Round the World in Eighty Dishes
Bosman, Herman Charles: Cold Stone Jug
Cameron, James: An Indian Summer
Farrell, J. G.: The Siege of Krishnapur
Frankl, Viktor E.: Man’s Search for Meaning
Gibson-Cowan, Charles: The Voyage of the Evelyn Hope
Hanley, Gerald: Warriors: Life and Death among the Somalis
Moore, John: Brensham Village
Proulx, E. Annie: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Rhodes, Dan: Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories; Don’t Tell Me the Truth about Love; Timoleon Vieta Come Home; Gold; Little Hands Clapping; This Is Life; When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow
Roberts, Cecil: And So to Bath
The Royal Society of Literature
South, Christopher: The Authorised Guide to Grunty Fen; Who’s Who in Grunty Fen
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels
Swift, Katherine: The Morville Hours
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.
‘A much-valued focal point for a literary world that most people had assumed had vanished forever – one that eschews most modern publishing trends, pretty much rejects the persuasions of profit-led publicity and marketing strategies for sub-standard books and instead concentrates on the traditional core values of enduring literary talent and exceptional writing.’ Caught by the River
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- Atkinson, Robert
- Blake, Robin
- Blanch, Lesley
- Bosman, Herman Charles
- Cameron, James
- Conyngham, John
- Farrell, J. G.
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Forsyth, Liz
- Frankl, Viktor E.
- Freeman, Laura
- Gaisford, Sue
- Gee, Sue
- Gibson-Cowan, Charles
- Gibson, Christopher
- Hanley, Gerald
- Harris, Alexandra
- Holroyd, Michael
- Mabey, Richard
- Marozzi, Justin
- Mead, Gary
- Moore, John
- Munro, Alan
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Rhodes, Dan
- Roberts, Cecil
- Royal Society of Literature, The
- South, Christopher
- Spiller, David
- Swift, Jonathan
- Swift, Katherine
- Valentine, Mark
- Welland, Patrick
Stac Lee
Mark Valentine explored the Isles and wild seas with Robert Atkinson in his article on Island Going in Slightly Foxed Issue 50, beautifully illustrated by Paul Kershaw’s woodcut of Stac Lee, home...
Read morePeacock Garden
‘Swift knows about containment and spillage. It’s the basic dynamic of her garden. In summer the plants billow out over the clipped box hedges that mark the borders, and roses ramble profusely...
Read moreSlightly Foxed Issue 50: From the Editors
We had quite a celebration for our tenth anniversary in 2014 and now this summer we’ve reached what feels to us like another significant milestone – our 50th issue. You could say Slightly Foxed...
Read moreCover Artist: Issue 50, Clare Halifax, Whitstable Lifeguard, print
Read moreWhen Brensham Hill puts on his hat . . .
Almost every morning of their lives the weather-wise people of Elmbury lift up their eyes to glance at Brensham Hill which rises solitary out of the vale, four miles away as the crow flies . . .
Read moreShadows on the Green
Read moreWilder Shores
I slipped into the world of Lesley Blanch’s swashbuckling cookbook, Round the World in Eighty Dishes (1955), before I’d even heard of it. It was the early ’60s, and I was on my first visit to...
Read moreIn this issue
Robert Macfarlane disappears into his dictionaries • Margaret Drabble follows James Joyce to Trieste • Jonathan Smith goes back to school with Brian Moore • Sue Gee meets Penelope Fitzgerald’s uncles • Oliver Pritchett seeks inspiration • Sarah Bakewell takes to the autoroute with Cortázar and Dunlop • Patrick Welland recalls the end of empire with J. G. Farrell • Helena Drysdale meets some Real People • A. F. Harrold returns to Slaughterhouse 5 • Linda Leatherbarrow smells Bad Blood . . .
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.
‘It's a joy, a delight, a quarterly treat that drives me to the bookshelves, the bookshop or the library in search of forgotten or never-encountered pleasures. I won't say that Slightly Foxed is essential, it's just that I can't live without it any more.’ Bernard Cornwell
- Adams, Matthew
- Angus, James Stout
- Bakewell, Sarah
- Connell, Evan S.
- Cornford, F. M.
- Cortázar, Julio & Dunlop, Carol
- Drabble, Margaret
- Drysdale, Helena
- Elliott, Charles
- Ellmann, Richard
- Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Gardiner, Juliet
- Gee, Sue
- Greacen, Lavinia
- Harrold, A. F.
- Inspiration
- Leatherbarrow, Linda
- MacDonagh, Michael
- Macfarlane, Robert
- Moore, Brian
- O’Hanlon, Galen
- Palmer, William
- Parker, Peter
- Petre, Diana
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Sage, Lorna
- Sanders, Rosie
- Smith, Jonathan
- Stephens, John Lloyd
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Welch, Ronald
- Welland, Patrick
Heylor, Shetland
Robert Macfarlane delights in dialect and explores the landscape of language in Slightly Foxed Issue 49, accompanied by Claire Dalby’s woodcut of Heylor, Shetland.
Read moreHer name was Muriel Haidée Perry . . .
Her name was Muriel Haidée Perry and she was born on 5 March 1890, or so I believed when I went to Somerset House to look up the registration of her birth. It wasn’t there. What I was really...
Read moreThe Spell of Stout Angus
In a poem written near the end of his life, W. S. Graham imagined himself as a ‘wordy ghost’, ‘floating across the frozen tundra / of the lexicon and the dictionary’. Like Graham – like...
Read moreJune News: The Word-Hoard – Love Letters to Our Land
At this time of year, the build-up of desket syndrome at SF HQ is increasingly problematic, and the prospect of escaping the city for a dose of the natural world becomes more appealing by the day....
Read moreEvasions and Deceits
Among the small horde of papers Diana Petre left me as her literary executor when she died in 2001 was a folder labelled: ‘Excuses. Lies. Evasions. Deceits.’ I thought at first that it might...
Read moreSlightly Foxed Issue 49: From the Editors
As everyone who lives here knows, spring in London doesn’t just signal daffodils in window boxes and budding trees in squares. It signals building projects. The whole city seems to be in a state of...
Read moreThe Sadness of Mrs Bridge
As a fan of early jazz, I’ve read a great deal about Kansas City as it was in the 1930s. A most attractive place it seems in retrospect, of twenty-four-hour drinking and gambling, to the...
Read moreRichard Holloway reaches Virginia Woolf at last • Shena Mackay weeps over Owd Bob • Jonathan Law reads the diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner • Maggie Fergusson drops in on 84, Charing Cross Road • Robin Blake champions the novels of Keith Waterhouse • Melissa Harrison explores Gilbert White’s Selborne • Simon Willis walks with Robert Walser • Julia Blackburn learns ballads by heart • C. J. Wright inspects the Punch archive with Alan Coren • Ranjit Bolt has a cautionary tale to tell . . .
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Blackburn, Julia
- Blake, Robin
- Blanchard, Tim
- Bolt, Ranjit
- Collins, Wilkie
- Delafield, E. M.
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Goncharov, Ivan
- Granville, Harriet, Countess
- Hanff, Helene
- Harman, Claire
- Harrison, Melissa
- Holloway, Richard
- Hudson, Roger
- Law, Jonathan
- Lycett, Andrew
- Macgregor, Miriam
- MacInnes, Morag
- Mackay, Shena
- Marshall, Arthur
- Ollivant, Alfred
- Oxford Book of Ballads
- Parker, Derek
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Quiller-Couch, (Sir) Arthur
- Shaw, Robert
- Walser, Robert
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend
- Waterhouse, Keith
- White, Gilbert
- Willis, Simon
- Woolf, Virginia
- Woolfenden, Sarah
- Wright, C. J.
- Yates, Louisa
Surprised by Joy
It’s always strange to think how easily you might not have met that someone: a bus that arrived on time, or a last drink at the bar, and it might all have been quite different. Our meetings with...
Read moreA Literary Love Affair
I thought I could never feel fond of Charing Cross Road. In 1988, when I was 23, I spent a miserable three months there doing a ‘Sight and Sound’ typing course on the bleak first floor of a...
Read moreSlightly Foxed Issue 48: From the Editors
By now most of us have probably begun the often rather agonized run-up to Christmas – the worry about what to buy for whom and where to find it. For Slightly Foxed readers, we suspect books are...
Read moreCover Artist: Issue 48, Sarah Woolfenden, ‘River in Winter’
Read more‘Beautiful copy of 84, Charing Cross Road . . .’
‘A little early to send a Christmas card, but I felt I needed to thank you after such a after such a pleasant weekend, due to the arrival of both the Winter issue of the magazine and the beautiful...
Read more‘I am working my way through the book with great delight . . .’
‘Dear Slightly Foxed, Many thanks for No. 48 and 84, Charing Cross Road. Ms Hanff has lost none of her exuberant charm over the years and I am working my way through the book with great delight . ....
Read moreJustin Cartwright remembers John Updike and the small town world of ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom • Maggie Fergusson finds romance in Broadmoor • Richard Mabey cultivates his library • Bel Mooney discovers a wartime heroine • Galen O’Hanlon runs wild with the young Gavin Maxwell • Frances Wilson describes the one book she’d never lend • Anthony Wells marvels at the story behind The Gulag Archipelago • Sarah Perry pays tribute to Foxe’s Book of Martyrs • Derek Parker finds Don Juan excellent company • Sarah Crowden settles into the suburbs with R. F. Delderfield • Henry Jeffreys follows the erratic career of Reginald Perrin, and much more besides . . .
- Adams, Matthew
- Aickman, Robert
- Ayres, Jack
- Borden, Mary
- Brodholt, Gail
- Byron, Lord
- Cartwright, Justin
- Crowden, Sarah
- Davies, Richard
- Delderfield, R. F.
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Fitzhugh, Louise
- Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
- Hoffman, Julian
- Jeffreys, Henry
- Jenkins, Robin
- Libraries
- Liptrot, Amy
- Longden, Anthony
- Mabey, Richard
- Maxwell, Gavin
- McGrath, Patrick
- Mooney, Bel
- Nobbs, David
- O’Hanlon, Galen
- O’Sullivan, Maurice
- Parker, Derek
- Perry, Sarah
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Robshaw, Brandon
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
- Updike, John
- Welch, Ronald
- Wells, Anthony
- Wilson, Anne
- Wilson, Frances
Mowgli with a Gun
A few months before his thirteenth birthday, the young and miserable Gavin Maxwell crept out of St Wulfric’s prep school to send a ‘thoroughly hysterical’ letter to his mother. At the end of...
Read moreCuriouser and Curiouser
All of Aickman’s tales (he wrote 48 in all) include some kind of supernatural element. ‘Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal’ is a vampire story, ‘Ringing the Changes’ is a zombie story,...
Read moreSlightly Foxed Issue 47: From the Editors
It’s hard to believe autumn is here already. But the days are shortening, the air is growing brisker, and gradually the city is coming to life again as people trickle back after the long summer...
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Open up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review.
In this issue: Justin Marozzi joins Norman Lewis on the road to Mandalay • Melissa Harrison returns to Suffolk with Adrian Bell • David Rain is touched by Platero the Donkey • Michael Holroyd meets The Smith of Smiths • Sophie Breese discovers a mysterious book room in Marrakesh • Anthony Gardner revisits A Town like Alice • Helena Drysdale reads her Murray Handbook • Gordon Bowker goes in search of Baron Corvo, and much more besides.
Contents
Making the Best of It • WILLIAM PALMER
Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer
Grecian Hours • HELENA DRYSDALE
The Murray Handbooks
From the Farmhouse Window • MELISSA HARRISON
Adrian Bell, Silver Ley
A Bonza Town • ANTHONY GARDNER
Nevil Shute, A Town like Alice
Three Girls in a Boat • PAUL ATTERBURY
Emma Smith, Maidens’ Trip
Adrift in LA • TRAVIS ELBOROUGH
Alison Lurie, The Nowhere City
Great Scott • ROGER HUDSON
The Journal of Walter Scott
Amber Hits Back • SAMANTHA ELLIS
Amber Reeves, A Lady and Her Husband
Fired by a Canon • MICHAEL HOLROYD
Hesketh Pearson, The Smith of Smiths
Having the Last Laugh • JOANNA KAVENNA
Enrique Vila-Matas, Never Any End to Paris
The Semi-invisible Man • JUSTIN MAROZZI
Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent & Golden Earth
Last of the Old Guard • MICHAEL BARBER
Louis Auchincloss, A Writer’s Capital
A Dream of Boyhood • LINDA LEATHERBARROW
Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes
In Search of the Biographer • GORDON BOWKER
A. J. A. Symons, The Quest for Corvo
A Man and His Donkey • DAVID RAIN
Juan Ramón Jiménez, Platero and I
Waugh on the Warpath • RANJIT BOLT
Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
Mustapha’s Room • SOPHIE BREESE
A Room full of Books in Marrakesh
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
‘A heartfelt celebration of writing that has stood the test of time . . . committedly eclectic’ Gaby Wood, Telegraph
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- Alain-Fournier
- Atterbury, Paul
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Barber, Michael
- Bell, Adrian
- Bolt, Ranjit
- Bowker, Gordon
- Breese, Sophie
- Drysdale, Helena
- Elborough, Travis
- Ellis, Samantha
- Gardner, Anthony
- Harrison, Melissa
- Holroyd, Michael
- Hudson, Roger
- J. Weston Lewis
- Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Kavenna, Joanna
- Leatherbarrow, Linda
- Lewis, Norman
- Lurie, Alison
- Marozzi, Justin
- Murray Handbooks, The
- Pearson, Hesketh
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Rain, David
- Reeves, Amber
- Shute, Nevil
- Smith, Emma
- Symons, A. J. A.
- Vila-Matas, Enrique
- Waugh, Evelyn
From the Farmhouse Window
The middle volume of Adrian Bell’s inter-war farming trilogy, Silver Ley (1931), is, in its quiet, unassuming way, the most poignant memoir I think I have ever read. Picking up where his first book...
Read moreVictoria Glendinning hunts a biographer • Lawrence Sail hears healing laughter • Sarah Lawson revisits Gone with the Wind • Rohan Candappa discovers a comic genius • Annabel Walker tastes the life of a peregrine • Patrick Welland enters the world of a Roman Emperor • Laura Freeman takes love lessons • John Keay witnesses a Javanese tragedy • Jane Ridley meets Edward VIII • Jeremy Lewis marches with Marlborough • Daisy Hay reads a novel of society, and much more besides . . .
- Baker, J. A.
- Boston, Anne
- Breasted, Mary
- Candappa, Rohan
- Disraeli, Benjamin
- Donaldson, Frances
- Elliott, Charles
- Freeman, Laura
- Gifford, Andrew
- Glendinning, Victoria
- Graves, Robert
- Gunn, Neil M.
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Hay, Daisy
- Holroyd, Michael
- Kavanagh, P. J.
- Keay, John
- Lawson, Sarah
- Lewis, Jeremy
- Mapanje, Jack
- McCay, Winsor
- Mitchell, Margaret
- O’Hanlon, Galen
- Palmer, William
- Parker, Derek
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Ridley, Jane
- Sail, Lawrence
- Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
- Trevor-Roper, Hugh
- Vidal, Gore
- Walker, Annabel
- Welch, Ronald
- Welland, Patrick
- Wells, Anthony
- Wyndham, Joan
The Call of the Sea
It’s a wonderful thing when a book so fires the imagination that it becomes more real than the world around you, when the mind is totally absorbed, the page dissolves, and you begin to exist...
Read moreSimon Barnes finds paradise in My Family and Other Animals • Ysenda Maxtone Graham goes back to school with Angela Brazil • Ranjit Bolt takes Betjeman to Hampstead Heath • Linda Leatherbarrow breakfasts at Tiffany’s • Richard Platt discovers that there are only seven basic plots • Ursula Buchan revisits her grandfather’s Mr Standfast • Anthony Wells consults his Encyclopaedia Britannica • Grant McIntyre puts to sea again with Patrick O’Brian • Belinda Hollyer falls for a mouse called Stuart Little • Gus Alexander tracks down the overweight detective Nero Wolfe, and much more besides . . .
- Adams, Matthew
- Alexander, Gus
- Allwood, Lomax
- Barnes, Simon
- Betjeman, John
- Bolt, Ranjit
- Booker, Christopher
- Brazil, Angela
- Buchan, John
- Buchan, Ursula
- Capote, Truman
- Crowden, Sarah
- Durrell, Gerald
- Encyclopaedia Brittanica
- Forster, E. M.
- Graham, Ysenda Maxtone
- Grant, Elizabeth
- Gunther, John
- Hartley, L. P.
- Hollyer, Belinda
- Huber, Matt
- Hudson, Roger
- Leatherbarrow, Linda
- Lucie-Smith, Alexander
- McIntyre, Grant
- O’Brian, Patrick
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Platt, Richard
- Smut
- Snow, C. P.
- Stout, Rex
- Sumner, Mary
- Wells, Anthony
- Wemyss, David
- White, E. B.
Paradise Regained
Every paradise is lost. That’s kind of the point. Loss is the diagnostic feature of every paradise ever lived or imagined. But for five miraculous years and 120,000 miraculous words Gerald...
Read more‘Made me laugh out loud . . .’
‘I’m mad about Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s piece in the new issue. Made me laugh out loud. I was a Malory Towers reader and never discovered Angela Brazil. I may have to seek her out for something...
Read moreJohn Walsh remembers his friend Beryl Bainbridge • Morag MacInnes rereads the haunting Orkney stories of Eric Linklater • Derek Parker recalls the world evoked by Arnold Bennett’s diaries • Melissa Harrison tucks Oliver Rackham’s History of the English Countryside into her backpack • Andrew Merrills journeys west with a monkey king • Victoria Neumark dips into a Walter de la Mare anthology • Dick Russell suggests that Churchill might have benefited from a reading of C. S. Forester’s novel The General • Frances Wood researches the explosive history of rhubarb • William Palmer is kidnapped • Cheryl Tipp listens to the memoirs of a birdman • Martin Sorrell takes pleasure in small things . . .
- Bainbridge, Beryl
- Carlton, Harold
- Churchill, Winston
- De la Mare, Walter
- Delerm, Philippe
- Driver, C. J.
- Flower, Norman
- Forester, C. S.
- Grimmond, Pam
- Harrison, Melissa
- Hassall, Joan
- Koch, Ludwig
- Levi, Primo
- Lindsley, Kathleen
- MacDonald, Philip
- MacInnes, Morag
- Merrills, Andrew
- Middleton, Stanley
- Neumark, Victoria
- Palmer, William
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Rackham, Oliver
- Ring, Jim
- Russell, Dick
- Sorrell, Martin
- Spiller, David
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Tipp, Cheryl
- Tyler, Christian
- Valentine, Mark
- Walsh, John
- Welch, Ronald
- Wood, Frances
- Wu Ch’êng-ên
Lobster
We love wood engravings and in the printed quarterly we have an occasional series to introduce the work of some of our favourite engravers. We'll be sharing a woodcut from our archive on the website...
Read moreMichael Holroyd joins the Borrowers • Penelope Lively meets the child that books built • Jeremy Lewis goes down Tewkesbury way • Sue Gee travels to Corfu with Lawrence Durrell • Christian Tyler salutes a Chinese dissident • Mark Haworth-Booth returns to Kettle’s Yard • Adam Foulds describes his most precious book • Sophie Breese celebrates the novelist Barbara Comyns • Glyn Frewer relives his days as a second-hand bookseller • Robin Blake braves a high wind in Jamaica . . .
- Beerbohm, Max
- Blake, Robin
- Bowker, Gordon
- Breese, Sophie
- Comyns, Barbara
- Devlin, George
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Ede, Jim
- Foulds, Adam
- Fraser, Constantine
- Frewer, Glyn
- Gardner, Anthony
- Gee, Sue
- Grahame, Kenneth
- Grove, Valerie
- Haworth-Booth, Mark
- Holroyd, Michael
- Hughes, Richard
- Joyce, James
- Kurtz, Irma
- Lewis, Jeremy
- Lively, Penelope
- McIntyre, Grant
- Merrick, Catherine
- Moore, John
- Norton, Mary
- O’Brian, Patrick
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Sale, Jonathan
- Spufford, Francis
- Struther, Jan
- Tyler, Christian
- Wei, Jingsheng
- Wilson, E. O.
Strawberries
‘Strawberries, and only strawberries, could now be thought or spoken of. “The best fruit in England — every body’s favourite — always wholesome. — These the finest beds and finest sorts....
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Slightly Foxed is published four times a year, in early March, June, September and December. Each issue remains current until the next one is published.
To buy a new subscription, a gift subscription or a renewal of an existing subscription please first select the starting issue, and add the subscription to your basket. Once you reach the checkout you can tell us any renewal information or, if a gift, the name and address of the recipient, any special delivery instructions, and write a personal message to be enclosed with the first issue.
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Slightly Foxed is published four times a year, in early March, June, September and December. Each issue remains current until the next one is published.
To buy a new subscription, a gift subscription or a renewal of an existing subscription please first select the starting issue, and add the subscription to your basket. Once you reach the checkout you can tell us any renewal information or, if a gift, the name and address of the recipient, any special delivery instructions, and write a personal message to be enclosed with the first issue.
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Richard Mabey finds a cellmate • Anne Boston falls for Carrington • Anthony Gardner salutes a remarkable soldier • Jane Ridley curtseys to a queen • David Gilmour visits a francophile’s England • Daisy Hay meets a Mitford • Patrick Welland raises a glass to Flann O’Brien • Galen O’Hanlon paddles with ducks . . .
- Bankes, Ariane
- Barber, Michael
- Baynes, Pauline
- Bensusan, S. L.
- Boston, Anne
- Children’s stories
- Dickens, Charles
- Freeman, Laura
- Gardner, Anthony
- Garnett, David
- Gilmour, David
- Hay, Daisy
- Haycock, David Boyd
- Hill, Jane
- J. Weston Lewis
- Jeffreys, Henry
- Longden, Anthony
- Mabey, Richard
- Massie, Allan
- Mitford, Jessica
- O’Brien, Flann
- O’Hanlon, Galen
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pope-Hennessy, James
- Rain, David
- Ridley, Jane
- Ripley, Dillon
- Roth, Joseph
- Settle, Mary Lee
- Sussman, Peter Y.
- Tarkington, Booth
- Theunissen, Amanda
- Thomas, Lewis
- Tolkein, J. R. R.
- Watson, Don
- Welland, Patrick
Snake’s head fritillary / fritillaria meleagris
It seems that spring has finally sprung and the bluebells and crocuses are out in full bloom. We long to see some snake’s head fritillary out in Hoxton Square, but alas will have to make do with...
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Slightly Foxed is published four times a year, in early March, June, September and December. Each issue remains current until the next one is published.
To buy a new subscription, a gift subscription or a renewal of an existing subscription please first select the starting issue, and add the subscription to your basket. Once you reach the checkout you can tell us any renewal information or, if a gift, the name and address of the recipient, any special delivery instructions, and write a personal message to be enclosed with the first issue.
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Robin Blake on the Just William books, Daisy Hay on how she fell for Jane Eyre, Derek Parker on a supreme diarist, Melissa Harrison on Ronald Blythe’s view from Wormingford, Grant McIntyre on the work of Patrick O’Brian, Ysenda Maxtone Graham on reading aloud and Posy Simmonds, pen in hand, at our bookshop. There’s an introduction, too, to the latest of our Slightly Foxed Editions, the artist Gwen Raverat’s wonderfully funny and touching memoir of her childhood in Victorian Cambridge, Period Piece . . .
- Agate, James
- Alexander, Gus
- Allingham, Margery
- Blake, Robin
- Blythe, Ronald
- Brontë, Charlotte
- Corr, Christopher
- Cresswell, H. B.
- Crompton, Richmal
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Gee, Sue
- Gittings, Robert & Mee, John
- Harrison, Melissa
- Hay, Daisy
- Jansson, Tove
- Jennings, Paul
- Keats, John
- Leatherbarrow, Linda
- McIntyre, Grant
- Mee, John & Gittings, Robert
- Musil, Robert
- O’Brian, Patrick
- Orwell, George
- Parker, Derek
- Pearce, Philippa
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Raverat, Gwen
- Schüler, C. J.
- Wood, Hazel
When the Clock Struck Thirteen
A lot of the stories I loved most as a child involved doors. Aged about 4, I suppose, I passed through the small, latched door in the hillside, into Mrs Tiggywinkle’s flagged kitchen, filled with...
Read moreSlightly Foxed is published four times a year, in early March, June, September and December. Each issue remains current until the next one is published.
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The Autumn Slightly Foxed Quarterly & Editions Subscription comprises:
- Slightly Foxed Issue 59 & SF Edition No. 43, Jennie Erdal, Ghosting (Published 1 September)
- Slightly Foxed Issue 60 & SF Edition Nos. 44 & 45, Ernest Shepard, Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life (Pair, published 1 December)
- Slightly Foxed Issue 61 & SF Edition No. 46, Jan Morris, Conundrum (Published 1 March)
- Slightly Foxed Issue 62 & SF Edition No. 47, Eric Newby, Love and War in the Appenines (Published 1 June)
If you would prefer to start with the forthcoming Winter publications, released on 1 December, please visit: Slightly Foxed Quarterly & Editions Subscription (Winter)
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Slightly Foxed is published four times a year, in early March, June, September and December. Each issue remains current until the next one is published.
To buy a new subscription, a gift subscription or a renewal of an existing subscription please first select the starting issue, and add the subscription to your basket. Once you reach the checkout you can tell us any renewal information or, if a gift, the name and address of the recipient, any special delivery instructions, and write a personal message to be enclosed with the first issue.
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Read moreSlightly Foxed Issue 50: From the Editors
We had quite a celebration for our tenth anniversary in 2014 and now this summer we’ve reached what feels to us like another significant milestone – our 50th issue. You could say Slightly Foxed...
Read moreShadows on the Green
Read moreWilder Shores
I slipped into the world of Lesley Blanch’s swashbuckling cookbook, Round the World in Eighty Dishes (1955), before I’d even heard of it. It was the early ’60s, and I was on my first visit to...
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Read morePenelope Lively returns to Alamein, John Walsh meets the enemies of promise, Isabel Colegate brings her imagination to history, Christopher Rush shows true grit, Morag MacInnes recites with George Mackay Brown and Dylan Thomas, Paul Brassley seeks refuge in farming, and Amanda Theunissen is fascinated by the 23rd title in our Slightly Foxed Editions, Christabel Bielenberg’s memoir The Past Is Myself . .
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Dervla Murphy travels to the Cape • Charles Elliott hails a woman warrior • Justin Marozzi visits Naples with Norman Lewis • Andrew Merrills finds himself betwixt woods and water • Paul Atterbury meets Inspector Appleby • Ysenda Maxtone Graham gets caught in the rye • Trevor Fishlock sings along at a holiday camp concert . . .
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- Self-publishing
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Daisies
These cheerful daisies adorned the contents page of Slightly Foxed Issue 38, Summer 2013. Ian Stephens was born in North Buckinghamshire in 1940. He studied illustration and lettering at Northampton...
Read moreAtes Orga recalls how his father’s Portrait of a Turkish Family came to be written • Allison Pearson meets Mrs Miniver • Annabel Walker eavesdrops on Amos Oz in Jerusalem • Gordon Bowker turns ultramarine • Chris Schüler celebrates the atlas • Marie Forsyth volunteers in a charity bookshop • Derek Parker delights in the letters of Horace Walpole • Oliver Pritchett examines the etiquette of reading in bed . . .
- Akroyd, Carry
- Bowker, Gordon
- Butts, Dennis
- Charity bookshops
- Crane, Nicholas
- Donleavy, J. P.
- Folio Society, The
- Forsyth, Marie
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Graham, Ysenda Maxtone
- Harrold, A. F.
- Hassall, Joan
- Hegley, John
- Hudson, Roger
- Konstam, Angus & Swift, Michael
- Lispector, Clarice
- Lowry, Malcolm
- Marett-Crosby, Michael
- Merrick, Catherine
- Moser, Benjamin
- Nixon, Andrew
- Orga, Ates
- Orga, Irfan
- Oz, Amos
- Palmer, William
- Parker, Derek
- Payne, Brian
- Pearson, Allison
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Reading in bed
- Sacks, Oliver
- Schüler, C. J.
- Skvorecký, Josef (Škvorecký)
- Swift, Michael & Konstam, Angus
- The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
- Tyler, Christian
- Walker, Annabel
- Walpole, Horace
- Wells, H. G.
- Westerman, Percy F.
Hurricane Clarice
The sleeper lounge is old-fashioned British Rail, all tartan carpet, smeared tables and microwave cuisine. Tonight it contains a gathering of solitaries, all of us making separate journeys to London....
Read moreRobert Macfarlane follows the drove roads • Sue Gee admires the darling buds • Anthony Gardner salutes Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy • Daisy Hay takes to the stage • Juliet Gardiner claps hands with Osbert Sitwell • John Keay dives into Hobson-Jobson • Bruce Hunter visits the Asterisk Club • Ysenda Maxtone Graham culls her bookshelves . . .
- Banks, Marjorie A. & Thomas, Howard
- Bates, H. E.
- Book of Common Prayer (1662)
- Branch, Pamela
- Brown, Pamela
- Burnell, A. C. & Yule, Henry
- Constanduros, Denis
- Gardiner, Juliet
- Gardner, Anthony
- Gee, Sue
- Graham, Ysenda Maxtone
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Haldane, A. R. B.
- Hankin, Nigel B.
- Harding, Angela
- Hay, Daisy
- Hunter, Bruce
- Jones, Mark
- Jones, Roger
- Keay, John
- Khoo, Rachel
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Longden, Anthony
- Macfarlane, Robert
- Panter-Downes, Mollie
- Peel, J. H. B.
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Robbins, Christopher
- Scott, Laurence
- Sitwell, Osbert
- Symes, Ruth A.
- Taylor, Elisabeth Russell
- Thomas, Howard & Banks, Marjorie A.
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Wells, Anthony
- Wood, Hazel
A Late Victorian Afternoon
They seemed reasonable enough requests. Don’t lie on the bed naked in case passing servants catch an eyeful. Also, in mixed company, could he try to swear only in French? Modest pleas made by...
Read moreAttics with Attitude
I am sometimes asked which writers have changed my life. Next time I shall not answer ‘Proust’ but ‘Rachel Khoo’. For five years, since the death of my husband, I had all but given up cooking...
Read moreShelf Life
‘You must be cruel to be kind,’ gardeners tell you, about pruning roses. ‘The more you cut them down, the more they love it.’ This might be true of roses but is it true of book collections? I...
Read moreRichard Knott sails the Baltic with Arthur Ransome • David Spiller is intrigued by the wartime diary of Churchill’s private secretary Jock Colville • Judy Spours discovers just what it meant to be in a charge of a middle-class Victorian household • Jonathan Law tracks down Tarka the Otter and his paradoxical creator Henry Williamson • Stephen Honey trembles before The Man-eaters of Tsavo • Christian Tyler is on the front line with the author and war correspondent Alan Moorehead . . .
- Baker, Nicholson
- Book browsing, the etiquette of
- Collins, Norman
- Colville, John
- Cricket
- Cripps, Vivien
- Crowden, Sarah
- Driver, C. J.
- Duncan, Jane
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Gilbert, Martin
- Gosse, Edmund
- Hamel, Francis
- Hardy, Thomas
- Honey, Stephen
- Hutchinson, R. C.
- Knott, Richard
- Law, Jonathan
- Leatherbarrow, Linda
- Lewis, C. S.
- MacDonald, George
- Macgregor, Miriam
- McClenaghan, Jack
- Middelboe, Penelope
- Moorehead, Alan
- Noel-Tod, Jeremy
- O’Brien, Edna
- Olivier, Edith
- Patterson, John Henry
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Platt, Richard
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Ransome, Arthur
- Roose-Evans, James
- Rush, Christopher
- Sorrell, Martin
- Spiller, David
- Spours, Judy
- Tyler, Christian
- Williamson, Henry
- Wright, C. J.
Otter
‘There’s something inspiring about the way he comes to write Tarka by a kind of deep immersion – plunging himself into the creature’s habits and habitats, crawling through spinneys and...
Read moreDigging
This is 'Digging' by Miriam Macgregor - a woodcut we like so much, we've featured it twice! First in Issue 10 back in 2006 to illustrate Tim Longville's article on Henry Mitchell’s The Essential...
Read moreJohn Walsh meets Mr Enderby and his creator • Linda Leatherbarrow revisits the country girls • Alberto Manguel messes about with Mole and Ratty • Michele Hanson goes way down in New Orleans • Laurence Scott steps out with Uncle Sidney • Ralph Harrington meets the birdman of Singapore • Tim Mackintosh-Smith travels the road to Oxiana with Robert Byron • Anthony Gardner plays tennis with the Masai • Annabel Walker goes on safari . . .
- Bankes, Ariane
- Best, Nicholas
- Bey, Ahmed Hassanein
- Blake, Robin
- Braudel, Fernand
- Burgess, Anthony
- Byron, Robert
- Conyngham, Richard
- Gardner, Anthony
- Gibson-Hill, C. A.
- Grahame, Kenneth
- Hanson, Michele
- Harrington, Ralph
- Hickey, William
- Karon, Jan
- Kluz, Ed
- Lettering and Commemorative Arts Trust, The
- Linnane, Fergus
- London Library, The
- Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Manguel, Alberto
- Marozzi, Justin
- McCoy, Horace
- Merrills, Andrew
- Murray, Nicholas
- Pirenne, Henri
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Russell, Peter
- Scott, Laurence
- Toole, John Kennedy
- Walker, Annabel
- Walsh, John
- Welland, Patrick
- Wicks, Marie E.
Amanda Theunissen praises Pratchett • Andrew Nixon admires Flashman • Oliver Pritchett borrows some books • Gee Williams goes down to the sea again • Ashley Harrold digs out his Brewer • Ursula Buchan visits a garden in spring • Ranjit Bolt versifies on Larkin • Colin Dunne gets a sex education • Grant McIntyre turns revolutionary . . .
- Bankes, Ariane
- Barnes, David
- Bolt, Ranjit
- Book borrowing, the etiquette of
- Bowles, E. A.
- Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- Buchan, John
- Cobb, Richard
- Dunne, Colin
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Gray, John
- Hammond, John
- Harrold, A. F.
- Hilton, James
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Janson, Hank
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Larkin, Philip
- Lovell, Andy
- Masefield, John
- McIntyre, Grant
- Mercer, Patrick
- Nixon, Andrew
- Peak, Kathryn
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Powys, John Cowper
- Pratchett, Terry
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Sinclair, Andrew
- St Albans, Suzanne
- Storr, Catherine
- Strachey, Lytton
- Theunissen, Amanda
- Williams, Gee
- Wood, Hazel
Ducks and Daffodils
Today’s woodcut first appeared on the contents page of Slightly Foxed Issue 33 in Spring 2012. Rosalind Bliss is a landscape artist based in the UK. She learned the rudiments of wood engraving from...
Read moreA World of Shining Beauty
‘His descriptions are precise in every line, shaded so cleverly that the whole ninety pages work on you like a painting by Seurat. The dabs of colour are pretty enough – but stand back and there...
Read moreSue Gee marvels at the magic of the Raj Quartet • Charles Elliott meets the good soldier Švejk • Ysenda Maxtone Graham goes to Vanity Fair • Henry Jeffreys raises a glass to wine books • Victoria Neumark falls in love with Lord Peter Wimsey • Antony Wood turns Pooterish • Valerie Grove celebrates Dodie Smith • Andrew Hall goes dictionary-hunting • Simon Brett climbs with Whymper • Sarah Crowden admits to a liking for smut . . .
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Bennett, Donald
- Book titles
- Brackley, Frida
- Brett, Simon
- Brownlie, Andrew
- Carr, J. L.
- Causley, Charles
- Charlwood, Don
- Davidson, Lionel
- Elliott, Charles
- Gee, Sue
- Graham, Ysenda Maxtone
- Grossmith, George & Weedon
- Grove, Valerie
- Hall, Andrew
- Harrods Library
- Hašek, Jaroslav
- Hay, Daisy
- Holtby, Winifred
- Knott, Richard
- Lynch, Kermit
- Matthews, Patrick
- Parker, Derek
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Quince Tree Press
- Routledge, Paul
- Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Scott, Paul
- Shaw, Marion
- Smith, Dodie
- Smith, Ian
- Spufford, Francis
- Spurling, Hilary
- Tait, Alice
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Tripp, Miles
- Whymper, Edward
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Wood, Antony
At Home with the Pewters
I’m bound to admit that some of the experiences, and also, for heavens’ sake, the attitudes of the ‘pathetic ass who records his trivial life’ (as William Emrys Williams put it in his...
Read moreLaura, Louisa and Me
The Child that Books Built is the title of a memoir by Francis Spufford which explores the impact of books read in childhood by interspersing an account of Spufford’s own reading with excursions...
Read moreTim Mackintosh-Smith meets Norman Douglas in Calabria • Laurence Scott recalls the unexpected humour of teaching poetry to adults • David Spiller champions Nevil Shute • Caroline Moore revels in Victorian sensationalism • Stephen Honey undergoes a poker player’s education • Oliver Pritchett examines the etiquette of book-signings • James Roose-Evans meets a Cockney bookseller • Catherine Merrick follows the discovery of the double helix • Ranjit Bolt admires Dickens’s mistress . . .
- Arseniev, V. K.
- Astley, Neil
- Bason, Fred
- Bolt, Ranjit
- Book signing, the etiquette of
- Collins, Wilkie
- Donnelly, Frances
- Douglas, Norman
- Evans, Patrick
- Field, Robert
- Graham, Ysenda Maxtone
- Honey, Stephen
- Leatherbarrow, Linda
- Lewis, Jeremy
- Lucie-Smith, Alexander
- Maddox, Brenda
- Martin, Rupert
- Merrick, Catherine
- Moore, Caroline
- Pancake, Breece D’J.
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Rhodes, Sheila
- Roose-Evans, James
- Scott-James, Anne
- Scott, Laurence
- Shute, Nevil
- Sorrell, Martin
- Spiller, David
- Surtees, R. S.
- Thomas Ellis, Alice
- Tomalin, Claire
- Tremain, Rose
- Watson, James
- Wood, Hazel
- Yardley, Herbert O.
Andy Merrills follows in the footsteps of the fell walker Alfred Wainwright • Annabel Walker is enchanted by Marghanita Laski’s Little Boy Lost • Christopher Robbins takes to the skies with St-Exupéry • David Gilmour journeys through Italy with Stendhal • Adrian Thorpe recalls how he learnt to read with Homer • Christian Tyler visits the last bookshop in Europe • Oliver Pritchett discovers Hand-grenade Practice in Peking . . .
- Abbey, Edward
- Burningham, Emily
- Conyngham, John
- Cowles, Virginia
- De St-Exupéry, Antoine
- Dingle Bookshop, Ireland
- Dunbar, Janet
- Eden, Emily
- Farmar, Hugh
- Gilmour, David
- Goudge, Elizabeth
- Homer
- Hudson, Roger
- Humphreys, Simon
- Ingles, Elisabeth
- Laski, Marghanita
- Lavin, Mary
- Merrills, Andrew
- Palmer, William
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Platt, Richard
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Reed, John
- Robbins, Christopher
- Sebba, Anne
- Smith, Pauline
- Stendhal
- Sullivan, Mary
- Thomas, Dylan
- Thorpe, Adrian
- Tyler, Christian
- Wainwright, Alfred
- Walker, Annabel
- Wollaston, Nicholas
- Wood, Frances
James Hamilton-Paterson follows a spy to Cairo • Trilby Kent shares a desk with Claudine • Dennis Butts finds poetry in the Second World War • James Roose-Evans sees Europe with Augustus Hare • Kate Berridge immerses herself in the Saturday Books • Charles Elliott enters the exquisite world of a Japanese courtier • Eric Brown celebrates a science-fiction writer • Catherine Merrick salutes Charles Darwin • Michael Barber admires an elderly mischief-maker . . .
Contents
An Editorial Peacock • KATE BERRIDGE
The Saturday Books
Learn-As-You-Burn • HAZEL WOOD
P. Y. Betts, People Who Say Goodbye
The Heroism of Ordinary Life • PETER J. CONRADI
Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot; Late Call
Welcome to Dictionopolis • ROHAN CANDAPPA
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Coney’s Islands • ERIC BROWN
Michael G. Coney, Syzygy; The Girl with a Symphony in Her Fingers; Hello Summer, Goodbye; Brontomek!
Eminently a Victorian • JAMES ROOSE-EVANS
Augustus Hare, Peculiar People: The Story of My Life
Goodbye to Berlin • JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON
Joseph Hone, The Private Sector
Biophilia for Beginners • CATHERINE MERRICK
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
A Terrifying Business • PATRICK WELLAND
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews; Shamela
The Sound of Raindrops • CHARLES ELLIOTT
Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
Scandal at School • TRILBY KENT
Colette, Claudine at School; Claudine in Paris; Claudine Married; Claudine and Annie
The Fatal Gift of Phrase • MICHAEL BARBER
Gore Vidal, United States: Essays, 1952–1992; Palimpsest
Paradise Lost • JILL FOULSTON & ELISABETH RUSSELL TAYLOR
Robin Fedden, Chantesmesle
Seeking an Oasis • DENNIS BUTTS
The Oasis Trust (ed.), Return to Oasis; From Oasis into Italy; Poems of the Second World War; More Poems of the Second World War; The Schools Oasis; The Voice of War
On the Hungarian Plain • ANTHONY GARDNER
Kate Seredy, The Good Master; The Singing Tree
Hoppy Rides Again • TOM BROWN
Clarence E. Mulford’s Westerns
Comfort and Consolation • BILL TAYLOR
On downsizing a library
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Barber, Michael
- Berridge, Kate
- Betts, P. Y.
- Brown, Eric
- Brown, Tom
- Butts, Dennis
- Campbell, Rebecca
- Candappa, Rohan
- Colette
- Coney, Michael G.
- Conradi, Peter
- Darwin, Charles
- Downsizing a library
- Elliott, Charles
- Fedden, Robin
- Fielding, Henry
- Foulston, Jill
- Gardner, Anthony
- Hamilton-Paterson, James
- Hare, Augustus
- Hone, Joseph
- Juster, Norton
- Kent, Trilby
- Merrick, Catherine
- Mulford, Clarence E.
- Oasis Poetry Collections, The
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Roose-Evans, James
- Saturday Books, The
- Seredy, Kate
- Shōnagon, Sei
- Taylor, Bill
- Vidal, Gore
- Welland, Patrick
- Wilson, Angus
- Wood, Hazel
Oliver Pritchett reads between the lines • Juliet Gardiner takes us back to the Thirties with R. C. Sherriff’s Greengates • Diana Athill opens up the world of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz • Ariane Bankes finds some sea room • John Julius Norwich has something to declare • Sue Gee revels in Old Filth • Daisy Hay has a young visiter [sic] • Anne Boston falls for the Rabbi’s cat • Huon Mallalieu enjoys a life in pictures • Geoff Brandwood totters back to the local • Anthony Wood celebrates John Betjeman’s verse autobiography . . .
Contents
Happy Ever After • DAISY HAY
Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters, or Mr Salteena’s Plan
Something Always Turned Up • HUON MALLALIEU
Edward Ardizzone, The Young Ardizzone
The Child on the Beach • SUE GEE
Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks; The Queen of the Tambourine; Going into a Dark House; Old Filth; The People on Privilege Hill; The Man in the Wooden Hat
Essential Baggage • JOHN JULIUS NORWCH
Maurice Baring, Have You Anything to Declare?
Cheers! • GEOFF BRANDWOOD
Maurice Gorham & Edward Ardizzone, The Local; Back to the Local
Behind the Privet Hedge • JULIET GARDINER
R. C. Sherriff, The Fortnight in September; Greengates
Feline Philosophy • ANNE BOSTON
Joann Sfar, Le Chat du rabbin series: La Bar-Mitsva; Le Malka des lions; L’Exode; Le Paradis terrestre; Jérusalem d’Afrique
Tips about Icebergs • SARA WHEELER
Tété-Michel Kpomassie, An African in Greenland
No Swotting . . . • ANTONY WOOD
John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells; Collected Poems
Uncomfortable Truths • DIANA ATHILL
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Besieged by the Sea • ARIANE BANKES
Adam Nicolson, Sea Room: An Island Life
Lighting a Candle for Poetry • HAZEL WOOD
The Candlestick Press: Twelve Poems about Birds; Ten Poems about Puddings; Ten Poems about Bicycles; Ten Poems about Love; The Twelve Poems of Christmas; Ten Poems by Walter de la Mare; Six Poems by Christina Rossetti; Martin Armstrong, Miss Thompson Goes Shopping; Eleanor Farjeon, Mrs Malone
The Girl from the Bogs • CAROLINE JACKSON
Molly Keane, Good Behaviour; Loving without Tears; The Knight of Cheerful Countenance; Young Entry; Taking Chances; Mad Puppetstown; Conversation Piece; Devoted Ladies; Full House; The Rising Tide; Two Days in Aragon; Time after Time; Loving and Giving
Spellbound • SARAH CROWDEN
Beverley Nichols, The Tree that Sat Down; The Stream that Stood Still; The Mountain of Magic; The Wickedest Witch in the World
Folliries and Misinformations • DEREK PARKER
John Aubrey, Brief Lives
A Touch of Morton’s • OLIVER PRITCHETT
A love for Acknowledgements
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Acknowledgements
- Ardizzone, Edward
- Ashford, Daisy
- Athill, Diana
- Aubrey, John
- Bankes, Ariane
- Baring, Maurice
- Betjeman, John
- Boston, Anne
- Brandwood, Geoff
- Candlestick Press
- Crowden, Sarah
- Gardam, Jane
- Gardiner, Juliet
- Gee, Sue
- Gorham, Maurice & Ardizzone, Edward
- Hay, Daisy
- Jackson, Caroline
- Keane, Molly
- Kpomassie, Tété-Michel
- Mallalieu, Huon
- Nichols, Beverley
- Nicolson, Adam
- Norwich, John Julius
- Parker, Derek
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Sebald, W. G.
- Sfar, Joann
- Sherriff, R. C.
- Wheeler, Sara
- Wood, Antony
- Wood, Hazel
Happy Ever After
Read moreCover Art: Slightly Foxed Issue 28, Howard Phipps, ‘Downs in Winter’
Read more‘You do know how to please! For me this was a timely, well chosen and eclectic collection of books. I look forward to your next assault on my letter box.’ N. Menzies
Open up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review.
In this issue: Jim Ring solves a riddle • Frances Wood shares her thoughts on paper • James Bartholomew clicks with Cuthbert • Trilby Kent goes into Purgatory • Richard Davies meets a laughing diplomat • Eric Brown discovers a sensual world • Sarah Harrison decodes publishers’ blurbs • Roger Jones returns to Walden • Trevor Fishlock takes to the skies • John de Falbe celebrates Alan Ross’s war . . .
Contents
Well Done, Carruthers! • JIM RING
Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
The Perfect Spy • FRANCES DONNELLY
Graham Greene, A Sort of Life
Lives on the Edge • FRANK HERMANN
H. A. Manhood, Night Seed; Gay Agony; Apples by Night; Crack of Whips; Fierce and Gentle; Sunday Bugles; Lunatic Broth; Selected Stories; A Long View of Nothing
Smiling Through • RICHARD DAVIES
Daniele Varè, Laughing Diplomat
Academic Angst • JOSIE BARNARD
Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pastors and Masters; Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man
A Sensual but Secret World • ERIC BROWN
Rupert Croft-Cooke’s The Sensual World series
An Extraordinary Ordinary Man • RICHARD PLATT
Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History; As I Remember Him: The Biography of RS
Down in the Mayfair Badlands • D. J. TAYLOR
Roger Longrigg, A High-Pitched Buzz
The Well-Connected Letter-Writer • MARIE FORSYTH
Madame de Sévigné, Selected Letters
On the North West Frontier • Bruce Coward
Wallace Breem, The Leopard and the Cliff; Eagle in the Snow; The Legate’s Daughter
High Flyer • Trevor Fishlock
Winifred Loraine, Robert Loraine, Soldier, Actor, Airman
Thoreau’s Axe • Roger Jones
Henry Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
Writers at Sea • John de Falbe
Alan Ross, Blindfold Games; Frank Kermode, Not Entitled
If at First • James Bartholomew
P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert; Heart of a Goof
Not so Merry England • Alexander Lucie-Smith
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
A Season in Purgatory • Trilby Kent
Geoffrey Pyke, To Ruhleben – And Back: A Great Adventure in Three Phases
The Oldest Paper in the World • Frances Wood
The Diamond Sutra
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Barnard, Josie
- Bartholomew, James
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Breem, Wallace
- Brown, Eric
- Childers, Erskine
- Compton-Burnett, Ivy
- Coward, Bruce
- Croft-Cooke, Rupert
- Davies, Richard
- De Falbe, John
- De Sévigné, Madame
- Diamond Sutra, The
- Donnelly, Frances
- Fishlock, Trevor
- Forsyth, Marie
- Greene, Graham
- Herrmann, Frank
- Jones, Roger
- Kent, Trilby
- Kermode, Frank
- Lewin, Angie
- Longrigg, Roger
- Loraine, Winifred
- Lucie-Smith, Alexander
- Manhood, H. A.
- Paper
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Platt, Richard
- Pyke, Geoffrey
- Ring, Jim
- Ross, Alan
- Scott, Walter
- Taylor, D. J.
- Thoreau, Henry
- Varè, Daniele
- Wodehouse, P. G.
- Wood, Frances
- Zinsser, Hans
Well Done, Carruthers!
In the depths of last winter the bathroom, if by no means warm, was the least glacial room in the house. Ever since the children were born it’s also been the only place in our North Norfolk home in...
Read more‘It has been a great pleasure to read your Summer issue of Slightly Foxed. To meet so many old friends over my early morning cup of tea has been a lasting stimulus throughout the day.’ T. Bayliss
Open up a world of new reading with Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine for booklovers. Companionable, entertaining and elegantly produced, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary review.
In this issue: Jane Ridley meets the Queen • Derek Parker socializes with Eddie Marsh • Amanda Theunissen joins the quest for Kim • Richard Holloway finds redemption in art • Penelope Lively hears voices from the past • Anthony Wells continues his search for lost time • Laura Freeman discovers the tragedy behind the work of A. A. Milne • Michael Leapman sticks up (and sits down) for George Bernard Shaw • Ariane Bankes snaps up something wholesale, and much more besides . . .
Contents
A Nightmare on Wheels • OLIVER PRITCHETT
Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy
One Golden Summer • P. D. JAMES
Michael Jenkins, A House in Flanders
On the Beach • ROGER GOURD
Leo Walmsley, Three Fevers; Foreigners; Love in the Sun; Paradise Creek
Something Marvellous to Say • JOHN KEAY
Alan Moorehead, The White Nile; The Blue Nile
Redeemed by Muriel • FRANCES DONNELLEY
Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
Dog Days • PENELOPE LIVELY
Alethea Hayter, A Sultry Month
Briar Pipes v. Balkan Sobranies • CHRISTOPHER HAMILTON
John Buchan, Greenmantle; John Macnab
The Diary in the Attic • JAMES FERGUSSON
Raleigh Trevelyan, A Hermit Disclosed
First Love • ADAM KAY
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
Always Carry a Spare, Good Plug • BEN HOPKINSON
The British Seagull Co. Ltd., Operating Instructions for Models 40 & 100
The Only Thing that Matters • SARAH HARRISON
Theresa de Kerpely, Arabesque
Cheddaring, Sparging and Gaffing • ROWENA MACDONALD
John Seymour, The Fat of the Land; Self-Sufficiency
Comfort in Desolation • ANNABEL WALKER
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
In the Empty Quarter • PETER HOBDAY
Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands
Cold Cure from a Warm Climate • TIM LONGVILLE
Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery under Arms
Sunsets and Suburbia • LINDA LEATHERBARROW
Shena Mackay, The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories
Remembering Mr Simmons • CHRISTOPHER GIBSON
The bookshop at Number 16, Fleet Street
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Boldrewood, Rolf
- Bookshops and bookselling
- British Seagull Co. Ltd.
- Buchan, John
- De Kerpely, Theresa
- Donnelly, Frances
- Fergusson, James
- Gibson, Christopher
- Gourd, Roger
- Guppy, Shusha
- Hamilton, Christopher
- Harrison, Sarah
- Hayter, Alethea
- Hobday, Peter
- Hopkinson, Ben
- James, P. D.
- Jenkins, Michael
- Kay, Adam
- Keay, John
- Leatherbarrow, Linda
- Lively, Penelope
- Longus
- Longville, Tim
- Macdonald, Rowena
- Mackay, Shena
- Moorehead, Alan
- Morrocco, Leon
- Palmer, William
- Paton, Alan
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Seymour, John
- Simmons, Israel
- Smollett, Tobias
- Thesiger, Wilfred
- Trevelyan, Raleigh
- Tyler, Anne
- Walker, Annabel
- Walmsley, Leo
Cover Art: Slightly Foxed Issue 26, Leon Morrocco, ‘Blue Temple, Madurai’
Read moreFebruary News: Collar as Dawn. Back as Snowdrop.
Meteorologically speaking, we are still deep in mid-winter, but here at Slightly Foxed the new quarter waits not for the weather, so we are delighted to announce that it is now, officially, spring....
Read moreBelinda Hollyer finds an orange grove in Florida • Christian Tyler stops at Eboli • Lawrence Sail takes the high path • Michele Hanson meets a bounty-hunter • Ashley Harrold goes literary speed-dating • Rohan Candappa escapes to Brendon Chase • Hugh Farmar asks if enough is enough • Laurence Scott gets out his Observer’s book . . .
- BB
- Beeton, Isabella
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bridges, Robert
- Candappa, Rohan
- Crowther, Janice E. & Peter A.
- Evanovich, Janet
- Farmar, Hugh
- Flanery, Patrick Denman:
- Galbraith, J. K.
- Gorer, Geoffrey
- Hanson, Michele
- Harrold, A. F.
- Henderson, George
- Hollyer, Belinda
- Knight, Robin
- Levi, Carlo
- Mann, Jessica
- Manwaring, L. A.
- Murdoch, Iris
- Oxford Companion to English Literature
- Palmer, Simon
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Robbins, Christopher
- Routledge, Paul
- Russia
- Sail, Lawrence
- Scott, Laurence
- Selinko, Annemarie
- Sheppard, John
- Sitwell, Edith
- Stewart, Chris
- Tyler, Christian
- Walker, Ted
- Watkins-Pitchford, Denys [‘BB’]
A Date with Iris
Read moreIn this issue: Maggie Fergusson drops in on 84 Charing Cross Road • Quentin Blake and Travis Elborough celebrate the fox • Oliver Pritchett recites rude rhymes in the bath • Grant McIntyre recalls another self • Roger Hudson cherishes Mr Pepys • Michael Barber returns to the murky world of Eric Ambler • Andrew Lycett reads a double life • Sue Gee visits a little house at the edge of the wood, and much more besides . . .
Contents
A Pash for Nash • OLIVER PRITCHETT
[Ogden Nash] Linell Smith & Isabel Eberstadt (eds.), Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash; Douglas M. Parker, Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse
Unlucky Jim • GRANT MCINTYRE
James Lees-Milne, Another Self
Anarchist in a Tie • MICHAEL BARBER
Eric Ambler, Journey into Fear; The Mask of Dimitrios; Cause for Alarm; Epitaph for a Spy; Uncommon Danger
The Little House at the Edge of the Wood • SUE GEE
Alison Uttley, The Little Grey Rabbit Books
Of Julius Scissor and Gary Baldy • HAZEL WOOD
Leo Rosten, The Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n
A Very Rising Man • ROGER HUDSON
[Samuel Pepys] Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.), The Diaries; Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Divine Spark • EMMA HOGAN
Muriel Spark, Memento Mori; Curriculum Vitae; Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark: The Biography
Price of a Double Life • ANDREW LYCETT
Michael Burn, Turned towards the Sun
The Flying Yorkshireman • JOHN EMMS
Eric Knight, Sam Small Flies Again
We All Love Your Letters . . . • MAGGIE FERGUSSON
Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road
Balchin’s Maimed Brilliance • C. J. DRIVER
Nigel Balchin, The Small Back Room
Brush with the Law • TRAVIS ELBOROUGH
Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr Fox; Jeremy Treglown, Roald Dahl: A Biography
Stars in His Eyes • DONALD WINCHESTER
Giles Smith, Lost in Music
Mystery at the Minster •JOHN SAUMAREZ SMITH
John Meade Falkner, The Nebuly Coat
Plain Jane? Plain Wrong • DAISY HAY
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Six Things to Do with Cabbage • KAREN ROBINSON
Cooking in a Bedsitter
Great-aunts • PETRIE HARBOURI
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Ambler, Eric
- Austen, Jane
- Balchin, Nigel
- Barber, Michael
- Blake, Quentin
- Burn, Michael
- Dahl, Roald
- Driver, C. J.
- Eberstadt, Isabel & Smith, Linell
- Elborough, Travis
- Emms, John
- Falkner, John Meade
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Gee, Sue
- Hanff, Helene
- Harbouri, Petrie
- Hay, Daisy
- Higham, Maud
- Hogan, Emma
- Hudson, Roger
- Judd, Denis
- Knight, Eric
- Lees-Milne, James
- Lycett, Andrew
- McIntyre, Grant
- Nash, Ogden
- Parker, Douglas M.
- Pepys, Samuel
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Robinson, Karen
- Rosten, Leo
- Smith, Giles
- Smith, John Saumarez
- Spark, Muriel
- Stannard, Martin
- Tomalin, Claire
- Treglown, Jeremy
- Uttley, Alison
- Whitehorn, Katharine
- Winchester, Donald
- Wood, Hazel
Plain Jane? Plain Wrong
There is nothing ‘common-place’ about Pride and Prejudice. It has a tightly woven, seductively intricate plot, which unfolds so delicately that the reader falls blindly into the traps of...
Read moreA Brush with the Law
I recall being mildly disappointed that the factory in Charlie and the Chocolate was not fashioned solely from chocolate. Now that literalism strikes me as peculiarly wonderful. And, in retrospect,...
Read moreDivine Spark
I first came across Spark when working in a little second-hand bookshop off the Charing Cross Road. A battered tome of her selected works was on sale in the outside pile, desolately stationed there...
Read moreAmanda Theunissen heads for Chinese Turkestan • Alice O’Keeffe goes Cuban • Jeremy Lewis unearths the missing will • Ashley Harrold celebrates a very minor poet • Michele Hanson trails after Humphry Clinker • C. J. Wright saves the Punch table for the nation • Linda Leatherbarrow finds food for free • Jeremy Noel-Tod and Robert Macfarlane go night-climbing in Cambridge . . .