In this issue
Rachel Campbell-Johnson recalls her Wilder moments • Christopher Robbins anatomizes courage • Anne Boston does a midnight flit • Richard Ingrams meets an early ecologist • Grant McIntyre examines the eyesight of wasps • Oliver Pritchett walks the London streets • Ruth Symes captures the castle • Jeff Nicholl finds an eagle in his attic • David Platzer outdoes James Bond . . .
A Lonely Furrow • RICHARD INGRAMS
John Stewart Collis, The Worm Forgives the Plough
The Eyesight of Wasps • GRANT MCINTYRE
Niko Tinbergen’s Curious Naturalists, The Herring Gull’s World
Avid to Live and Learn • ANNE BOSTON
V.S. Pritchett, A Cab at the Door
Strolling with Dickens • OLIVER PRITCHETT
On Dickens and London’s literary walks
The Man from Department K • DAVID PLATZER
On the works of James Munro
The Tricks War Plays • CHRISTOPHER ROBBINS
Lord Moran, The Anatomy of Courage
Southern Comfort • JOSIE BARNARD
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury
Inside the Aunt Heap • TIM HEALD
Robin Eakin, Aunts up the Cross
An Eagle in the Attic • JEFF NICOLL
Stephen Bodio, Querencia
Tutu Wonderful • SARAH CROWDEN
Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes
A Spiritual Affinity • JOHN SHEPPARD
On the letters of Raymond Chandler
Great Escapes • PAUL ATTERBURY
On the works of George Millar
Brother Juniper’s Inquisition • RACHEL CAMPBELL-JOHNSTON
Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Growing up American • JONTY DRIVER
Mary McCarthy, Birds of America
The Making of a Writer • RUTH SYMES
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Recognizing an Imagination Need • CONSTANCE VIDOR
On the restorative power of storytelling
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 . . .
- Atterbury, Paul
- Barnard, Josie
- Bodio, Stephen
- Boston, Anne
- Campbell-Johnston, Rachel
- Collis, John Stewart
- Crowden, Sarah
- Driver, C. J.
- Eakin, Robin
- Faulkner, William
- Gardiner, Dorothy & Walker, Katherine Sorley
- Heald, Tim
- Hiney, Tom & MacShane, Frank
- Ingrams, Richard
- Macklin, Daniel
- MacShane, Frank & Hiney, Tom
- McCarthy, Mary
- McIntyre, Grant
- Millar, George
- Moran, Lord
- Munro, James
- Nicoll, Jeff
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Platzer, David
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Pritchett, V. S.
- Robbins, Christopher
- Smith, Dodie
- Storytelling
- Streatfeild, Noel
- Symes, Ruth A.
- Tinbergen, Niko
- Vidor, Constance
- Walker, Katherine Sorley & Gardiner, Dorothy
- Wilder, Thornton
Avid to Live and Learn
I shall always be grateful to A Cab at the Door. I read most of it one Sunday evening in a Victoria line tube train which was stuck for two hours outside King’s Cross station. The train lights...
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