In this issue
Liz Robinson meets a provincial lady • Rohan Candappa heads for the bunker • Christian Tyler rides a tiger • Ruth Symes takes passage to India • Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson revisits Torcello • Patrick Evans casts a fly • Justin Marozzi goes Dutch • Harriet Sergeant admires a ginger tree • C.J. Wright mourns the passing of a bookseller • Humphrey & Solveig Stone find Arcadia . . .
Winning Through • ROHAN CANDAPPA
R. G. G. Price, Betty Hope’s Survive with Me
Daphne’s Moment of Decadence • TIM HEALD
R. G. G. Price, Betty Hope’s Survive with Me
With Bold Knife and Fork • JANE LUNZER GIFFORD
On the works of M. F. K. Fisher
Pure Arcadia • HUMPHREY AND SOLVEIG STONE
On the works of M. F. K. Fisher
There for the Duration • JULIET GARDINER
Elizabeth Taylor, At Mrs Lippincote’s
A Bit of a Bracer • VICTORIA NEUMARK
The Oxford Book of Letters
Bitter Fruit • HARRIET SERGEANT
Oswald Wynd, The Ginger Tree
Of Sex and Salmon • PATRICK EVANS
William Humphrey, The Spawning Run
Riding the Leopard • JOHN DE FALBE
On the Leopard series
Going Dutch • JUSTIN MAROZZI
Cees Nooteboom, Nomad’s Hotel; The Following Story
Cold Courage • CHRISTIAN TYLER
On the works of Jim Corbett
Cain’s Clan • JOHN HARRISON
Anon., Beowulf
People of Our Sort • LIZ ROBINSON
E. M. Delafield, The Diary of a Provincial Lady
An Unsettling Read • RUTH SYMES
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
Mooring Lines • CHRISTOPHER SINCLAIR-STEVENSON
Shirley Guiton, No Magic Eden; A World by Itself
The Passing of a Bookseller • C.J. WRIGHT
Remembering John Stephens
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 . . .
- Beowulf
- Bookshops and bookselling
- Candappa, Rohan
- Corbett, Jim
- De Falbe, John
- Delafield, E. M.
- Du Maurier, Daphne
- Evans, Patrick
- Fisher, M. F. K.
- Forster, E. M.
- Gardiner, Juliet
- Gifford, Jane Lunzer
- Guiton, Shirley
- Harrison, John
- Harvill Press
- Heald, Tim
- Humphrey, William
- Kermode, Frank & Anita
- Leiper, Susan
- Marozzi, Justin
- Neumark, Victoria
- Nooteboom, Cees
- Oxford Book of Letters
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Price, R. G. G.
- Robinson, Liz
- Sergeant, Harriet
- Sinclair-Stevenson, Christopher
- Stone, Humphrey & Solveig
- Symes, Ruth A.
- Taylor, Elizabeth
- Tyler, Christian
- Wright, C. J.
- Wynd, Oswald
Farringdon Station
Before moving to Hoxton Square, the Foxed den was in Clerkenwell, and Farringdon was our local tube stop. This woodcut of the station by Sasa Marinkov was featured in Slightly Foxed Issue 13, in...
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‘I loved “Winning Through” in Slightly Foxed Issue 13. It brought back memories of sleeping under the dining room table in 1940-42, just in case some German bomber got lost and loaded its bombs...
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