In this issue
Anthony Perry recalls the strange story of the novel that escaped from Dartmoor • Sue Gee discovers a great crime novel in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Mr Tod • David Wheeler is touched by an account of the garden the exiled Napoleon created on St Helena • Michele Hanson feels much better about herself after encountering the hero of Howard Jacobson’s Coming from Behind • Justin Cartwright reflects on the significance of animals in fiction • Frances Wood visits Lhasa with Sherlock Holmes • Jill Paton Walsh is bewitched by the story of An Attic in Greece • Hazel Wood enjoys the childhood memories of a very unusual duchess • Rachel Campbell-Johnston listens in to J.H. Prynne • Anthony Sattin takes a Beer in the Snooker Club with the Egyptian novelist Waguih Ghali…
Kindred Spirits • LIZ ROBINSON
Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Bricks and Mortars • JILL PATON WALSH
Austen Kark, Attic in Greece
The Trouble with Sefton • MICHELE HANSON
Howard Jacobson, Coming from Behind
Listening in to Prynne • RACHEL CAMPBELL-JOHNSTON
J. H. Prynne, Poems
Beguiling • MARY SULLIVAN
Henry Green, Pack My Bag
The Chinese Book • SUSAN LEIPER
On Chinese woodblock printing
Napoleon’s Last Garden • DAVID WHEELER
Julia Blackburn, The Emperor’s Last Island: A Journey to St Helena
Cutting it Fine • ANNE BOSTON
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
A Writer’s Bestiary • JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT
On literary animals
Potter’s Dark Materials • SUE GEE
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr Tod
In the North Woods • BELINDA HOLLYER
Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light
Uneasy in Brooklyn • JENNY BAYNES
Paula Fox, Desperate Characters
City of Impregnation • JOHN KEAY
Krishna Dutta, Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History
A Publisher in Bloomsbury • HAZEL WOOD
On the publications of Persephone books
From Chelsea to Belsize Park • SIMON BRETT
Denis Mackail, Greenery Street
One Hot Night in Cairo • ANTHONY SATTIN
Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club
By Ancient Ways • DUFF HART – DAVIS
Candida Lycett-Green, Over the Hills and Far Away
Ex Libris 1 • SIMON BRETT
Sex and Salvation • CHRISTIAN TYLER
Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
With Holmes in Tibet • FRANCES WOOD
Jamyang Norbu, The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years
Backwards up the Orinoco • RIVERS SCOTT
Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps
Scorpions on the Mantelpiece • HAZEL WOOD
Suzanne St Albans, Mango and Mimosa
Crusading for Cary • SYLVESTER STEIN
Joyce Cary, The Horse’s Mouth; Mister Johnson
A Hanging in Wandsworth • PETER HOPKIRK
Stewart McLoughlin, Wandsworth Prison: A History
The Novel that Escaped from Dartmoor • ANTHONY PERRY
On Young and Sensitive’s history of plagiarism
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 . . .
- Animals in fiction
- Baynes, Jenny
- Blackburn, Julia
- Bookplates
- Boston, Anne
- Brett, Simon
- Campbell-Johnston, Rachel
- Carpentier, Alejo
- Cartwright, Justin
- Cary, Joyce
- Chinese Book Format
- Donnelly, Jennifer
- Dutta, Krishna
- Fadiman, Anne
- Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Fox, Paula
- Gee, Sue
- Ghali, Waguih
- Gmeyner, Anna
- Green, Henry
- Greene, Graham
- Hanson, Michele
- Hart-Davis, Duff
- Hollyer, Belinda
- Hopkirk, Peter
- Jacobson, Howard
- Kark, Austen
- Kazantzakis, Nikos
- Leiper, Susan
- Lycett-Green, Candida
- Mackail, Denis
- McLoughlin, Stewart
- Norbu, Jamyang
- Perry, Anthony
- Persephone Books
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Plagiarism
- Potter, Beatrix
- Prynne, J. H.
- Publishers
- Robinson, Liz
- Sattin, Anthony
- Scott, Rivers
- Slightly Foxed, launch of
- St Albans, Suzanne
- Stein, Sylvester
- Sullivan, Mary
- Tyler, Christian
- Walsh, Jill Paton
- Wheeler, David
- Wood, Hazel
Kindred Spirits
Do you treasure ancient paperbacks, spines gone, pages browning, brittle and crumbling, held together (or not quite) with perished elastic bands, simply because you also treasure the memories they...
Read morePotter’s Dark Materials
Set in a brooding Cumberland landscape of crags, empty dwellings and moonlit woodland, the characters, menacing atmosphere and plot of Mr Tod have all the hallmarks of classic crime fiction –...
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