In 2014 Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly was ten years old, and to mark the occasion the magazine’s friends and supporters put pencil to paper to create a gallery of vulpine characters you’d be astonished – and possibly alarmed – to find poking around your dustbins. Oliver Pritchett, well known for his witty columns in the Telegraph, introduces us to a new character, the Literary Fox, and attempts to bring some order to this riot of entirely original impressions by:
Diana Athill • Judy Bennett • Michael Billington • Quentin Blake • Ronald Blythe • Tracy Chevalier • Isabel Colegate • Charles Collingwood • Carol Ann Duffy • Alan Garner • Michael Holroyd • Kate Humble • Kazuo Ishiguro • Sue Macartney-Snape • Robert Macfarlane • Matt • Sam Mendes • Helen Mirren • Michael Morpurgo • Andrew Motion • Dervla Murphy • John Julius Norwich • Michael Palin • Libby Purves • Posy Simmonds • Alexander McCall Smith • Alan Titchmarsh
Frivolous Foxes, Furtive Foxes, Fanciful foxes . . .
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