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: Belinda Hollyer finds an orange grove in Florida • Christian Tyler stops at Eboli • Lawrence Sail takes the high path • Michele Hanson meets a bounty-hunter • Ashley Harrold goes literary speed-dating • Rohan Candappa escapes to Brendon Chase • Hugh Farmar asks if enough is enough • Laurence Scott gets out his Observer’s book, and much more besides . . .
A Date with Iris • A. F. HARROLD on the novels of Iris Murdoch
Beginning in Gladness • LAWRENCE SAIL on Ted Walker, The High Path
In Italy’s Dark Heart • CHRISTIAN TYLER on Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli
Spotting a Masterpiece • LAURENCE SCOTT on the Observer’s Book of Automobiles
By Folly Brook • ROHAN CANDAPPA on BB, Brendon Chase
Is Enough Enough? • HUGH FARMAR on J. K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society
A Splendid Attitude to Death • CHRISTOPHER ROBBINS on Edith Sitwell, English Eccentrics
Aunty May’s Footsteps • JOHN SHEPPARD on Robert Bridges (ed.), The Spirit of Man
Plum Perfect • MICHELE HANSON on Janet Evanovich, The Stephanie Plum series
Two Men in a Pontiac • PATRICK DENMAN FLANERY on Geoffrey Gorer, Africa Dances
Sharp Observations • PAUL ROUTLEDGE on the diaries of Robert Sharp
Farmer George • CHRIS STEWART on George Henderson, The Farming Ladder; Farmer’s Progress: A Guide to Farming
Romantic but True • JESSICA MANN on Annemarie Selinko, Désirée
Lost Horizon • BELINDA HOLLYER on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling; Cross Creek
Shelves of My Life • ROBIN KNIGHT on books about Russia
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.
- Russia
- Sheppard, John
- Sitwell, Edith
- Stewart, Chris
- Hollyer, Belinda
- Tyler, Christian
- Walker, Ted
- Watkins-Pitchford, Denys [‘BB’]
- Knight, Robin
- Levi, Carlo
- Oxford Companion to English Literature
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- BB
- Beeton, Isabella
- Bonaparte, Napoleon
- Bridges, Robert
- Candappa, Rohan
- Crowther, Janice E. & Peter A.
- Evanovich, Janet
- Farmar, Hugh
- Flanery, Patrick Denman:
- Galbraith, J. K.
- Gorer, Geoffrey
- Hanson, Michele
- Harrold, A. F.
- Mann, Jessica
- Manwaring, L. A.
- Henderson, George
- Murdoch, Iris
- Palmer, Simon
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Robbins, Christopher
- Routledge, Paul
- Sail, Lawrence
- Scott, Laurence
- Selinko, Annemarie
Slightly Foxed Issue 25: From the Editors
Now the Christmas rush is over and spring is in the air, it’s all paint charts and carpet samples at Slightly Foxed. The bookshop facelift is under way, and after dealing with urgent matters like...
Read moreA Date with Iris
Read moreBeginning in Gladness
Though I’ve long been familiar with Ted Walker’s poems, until recently I had not read The High Path, his wonderful memoir of childhood. I came to it not only with the curiosity of a fellow poet,...
Read moreIn Italy’s Dark Heart
On a motorbike ride across southern Italy in the Sixties, I stopped at an outdoor café in a hilltop village somewhere in the middle of Basilicata. A group of men and boys gathered a few yards away...
Read moreSpotting a Masterpiece
In 1960, when motoring for the masses was still in its infancy, I was a car-besotted 10-year-old. I liked the hand-smoothed gloss of fine coachwork, the rough heat of a flint-spiked tyre, and even...
Read moreBy Folly Brook
Time is linear. One thing happens, then another, then another. But while time itself may be linear, our memory of it is not. Of course we can order our memories in a linear, sort-by-date, fashion,...
Read moreIs Enough Enough?
If you feel troubled by society’s fixation on producing more and more stuff regardless of whether we need it, then The Affluent Society may offer some comfort. If you also labour in a dull job that...
Read moreA Splendid Attitude to Death
‘Eccentricity’, wrote Edith Sitwell, ‘exists particularly in the English, and partly, I think, because of that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and...
Read morePlum Perfect
When I was 18 my heart was broken for the first time, by a boy so wonderful that even my mother loved him. Only one thing stopped me crying and blotted out the pain and the thought of Him – reading...
Read moreTwo Men in a Pontiac
Anyone who has given the British Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery of African Art anything more than a very brief visit (in and out to gawk at the Benin bronzes) will surely have admired the extent to...
Read moreSharp Observations
Deep in the archives of the municipal Treasure House in Beverley lies a cloth-bound volume of handwritten diaries, the work of Robert Sharp, schoolmaster, village constable, shopkeeper and...
Read moreFarmer George
Back in the Seventies I fell under the spell of farming. On those long, lonely agricultural nights I would pore for entertainment over weed identification charts, tractor maintenance manuals and...
Read moreRomantic but True
Back in pre-WAG days, when teenaged girls’ fantasies could be expressed by the song, ‘Some day my prince will come’, I read and reread the perfect wish-fulfilment tale. Annemarie Selinko’s...
Read moreLost Horizon
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings had her first glimpse of Florida in March 1928, aboard a steamer at the mouth of the St Johns River. It was love at first sight, which really can happen with people and...
Read moreShelves of My Life
There is a long shelf in our house with 66 books on it. Nothing unusual about that. But every one of these books has a powerful story to tell. Every one contains a memory. They speak to me on those...
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