In this issue
Ronald Blythe inherits a library • Maggie Fergusson celebrates Edwin Muir • Robin Blake does detention with Jennings • Rohan Candappa praises Saki • Annabel Walker ponders Pevsner • Christopher Rush revisits Treasure Island • Hazel Wood reflects on the truth of the heart • Simon Heafield goes up in smoke • Derek Robinson falls in love with modern verse • Sue Gee returns to Warsaw . . .
Light Reading • RONALD BLYTHE
On inheriting a library
The Truth of the Heart • HAZEL WOOD
Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills
J. C. T. Jennings and the Problem of Evil • ROBIN BLAKE
Anthony Buckeridge, The Jennings books
Going Back • SUE GEE
Radek Sikorski, The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland
Murder Most Civilized • EMMA HOGAN
Agatha Christie, The Miss Marple books
Islands of the Mind • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Love versus Science • COLIN MARTIN
Carrie Tiffany, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living
Not Getting on with Aunts • ROHAN CANDAPPA
Saki, The Penguin Complete Saki
Pevsner’s Great Project • ANNABEL WALKER
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England
Going up in Smoke • SIMON HEAFIELD
Benoît Duteurtre, The Little Girl and the Cigarette
Gray’s Anomaly • DEREK ROBINSON
On the poetry of Billy Collins
One Foot in Eden • MAGGIE FERGUSSON
Edwin Muir, An Autobiography
The Spyglass of Tranquil Recollection • GORDON BOWKER
James Joyce, Dubliners
Between Soft Covers • PATRICK COLDSTREAM
Patrick Coldstream, Learning Things: A Me
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 . . .
- Blake, Robin
- Blythe, Ronald
- Bowker, Gordon
- Buckeridge, Anthony
- Candappa, Rohan
- Christie, Agatha
- Coldstream, Patrick
- Collins, Billy
- Duteurtre, Benoît
- Fergusson, Maggie
- Gee, Sue
- Gray’s Anatomy
- Heafield, Simon
- Hogan, Emma
- Joyce, James
- Martin, Colin
- Memoirs, the writing of
- Muir, Edwin
- Nunn, James
- Pevsner, Nikolaus
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pocket-size volumes
- Robinson, Derek
- Rush, Christopher
- Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]
- Sikorski, Radek
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Tiffany, Carrie
- Walker, Annabel
- Wood, Hazel
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