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 . . .