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.
In this issue
Wim d’Haveloose goes walkabout • Josie Barnard visits Oxfam • Jon Stallworthy recalls a golden warrior • Bevis Hillier remembers the Pre-Raphaelites • Ariane Bankes joins the rag trade • Hazel Wood presents a Posy • Peter Gill heads for the hills • Gregory Norminton mourns Keats • Richard Platt talks to a Guernseyman, and much more besides . . .
Underwear Was Important • HAZEL WOOD
On the cartoons of Posy Simmonds
A Guernsey Lad • RICHARD PLATT
G. B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Inside the Brotherhood • BEVIS HILLIER
William Gaunt, The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy
Illumination and Shadow • KAREN ROBINSON
Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent
A Landscape without Figures • WIM D’HAVELOOSE
Patrick White, Voss
Large Busts and Slim Margins • ARIANE BANKES
Eric Newby, Something Wholesale
Chronicle of Loss • JOHN DE FALBE
On the novels of Gregor von Rezzori
In Flight from Fitchville • KATE DUNN
Lorrie Moore, Anagrams
Heading for the Hills • PETER GILL
On the works of John Keay
England’s Epic • JON STALLWORTHY
Hope Muntz, The Golden Warrior
Rescued by the Milkman • LUCY LETHBRIDGE
On the memoirs of Margaret Powell
A Too-Early Death • GREGORY NORMINTON
Anthony Burgess, Abba Abba
Bottoms Up • MATTHEW J. REISZ
Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London
After the Anschluss • JESSICA MANN
On the novels of Sarah Gainham
Impossible Love • PATRICIA CLEVELAND-PECK
Andrea di Robilant, A Venetian Affair: A True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century
Transports of Delight • JOSIE BARNARD
On Charity bookshops
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. Read more about Slightly Foxed.
- Von Rezzori, Gregor
- Wood, Hazel
- White, Patrick
- Keay, John
- Lethbridge, Lucy
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Simmonds, Posy
- Stallworthy, Jon
- Barnard, Josie
- Bankes, Ariane
- Burgess, Anthony
- Cleveland-Peck, Patricia
- De Falbe, John
- D’Haveloose, Wim
- Di Robilant, Andrea
- Edwards, G. B.
- Furst, Alan
- Gainham, Sarah
- Gatrell, Vic
- Gaunt, William
- Gill, Peter
- Mahmood, Shazia
- Mann, Jessica
- Moore, Lorrie
- Muntz, Hope
- Newby, Eric
- Hillier, Bevis
- Norminton, Gregory
- Platt, Richard
- Powell, Margaret
- Reisz, Matthew J.
- Robinson, Karen
Slightly Foxed Issue 15: From the Editors
Time and tide, as they say, wait for no man, and the past few months have seen some significant changes in the office of Slightly Foxed. Our marketing manager Kathleen, who did wonderful work in...
Read moreUnderwear Was Important
Posy’s dialogue is as good as her draughtsmanship, and she has a talent for names (an area in which so many writers fall down) which is as good as that of Evelyn Waugh or Anthony Powell. What...
Read moreA Guernsey Lad
I have just returned from a long holiday in the Channel Islands visiting with Ebenezer Le Page, an old and valued friend, at Les Moulins, Ebenezer’s cottage by the sea. It is built of the same blue...
Read moreInside the Brotherhood
I first read the book when I was 16; later, Gaunt became a recurring figure in my life, cropping up unexpectedly like one of the incidental characters in Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of...
Read moreIllumination and Shadow
‘It is Europe that is dying, my friends.’ This gloomy observation is, his devoted fans will recognize, the very essence of Alan Furst. It is delivered, in this case, by an anti-fascist Italian...
Read moreA Landscape Without Figures
I first read Voss about forty years ago and didn’t pick it up again until very recently. A few years later I was somewhat disappointed by one or two of White’s other books and this must have...
Read moreLarge Busts and Slim Margins
It remains one of the more surprising facts of life that the intrepid traveller Eric Newby, who by the time I knew him had the weatherbeaten cragginess of a man only happy when halfway up the Hindu...
Read moreChronicle of Loss
‘I myself – pampered by my Jewish friends – was a steadfast anti-Semite.’ There are enough reflections from [von Rezzori's] autobiographical work to show that he was intimately acquainted...
Read moreIn Flight from Fitchville
The shelves in my study are crammed with books that I only quite like, to the extent that I think they barely represent my taste in reading, largely because I have pressed all my favourites on...
Read moreHeading for the Hills
The focus of John Keay’s two books is the evolving imperial game that British India played on its north-west frontier. The Khyber Pass was one of the great invasion routes of history, and for all...
Read moreEngland’s Epic
The Golden Warrior is not ‘an ordinary historical novel’ in any sense. These, and even extraordinary historical novels like Tolstoy’s War and Peace, tend to be written by novelists who have...
Read moreRescued by the Milkman
When I began to research the lives of twentieth-century domestic servants, I was surprised by the number of servants’ memoirs that had been published in the second half of the century. It seemed...
Read moreA Too-Early Death
I am one of those fastidious individuals who, before travelling, has to draw up a reading list suited to the place he is to visit. For this reason, on a recent trip to Rome, I reread Abba Abba (one...
Read moreBottoms Up
Vic Gatrell’s book City of Laughter paints a compelling, seductive picture of London in a lost Golden Age – the Golden Age revealed in the hundreds of satirical prints that poured from the...
Read moreAfter the Anschluss
It takes a special sort of long-term determination and courage to risk one’s life for someone else’s sake. Would the friends who protected Anne Frank’s family in their secret annexe have...
Read moreImpossible Love
As I make my way through narrow passages and over numerous little bridges, I am trying to imagine a Venice of two and a half centuries ago, the Venice of A Venetian Affair by Andrea di...
Read moreTransports of Delight
I have a pocketful of change. Around me, there’s the sound of clothes hangers on rails. Beyond a bin of old toys there’s a clink of crockery. The flooring’s worn, the smell is musty. I can...
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