In this issue
Jim Ring solves a riddle • Frances Wood shares her thoughts on paper • James Bartholomew clicks with Cuthbert • Trilby Kent goes into Purgatory • Richard Davies meets a laughing diplomat • Eric Brown discovers a sensual world • Sarah Harrison decodes publishers’ blurbs • Roger Jones returns to Walden • Trevor Fishlock takes to the skies • John de Falbe celebrates Alan Ross’s war, and much more besides . . .
Well Done, Carruthers! • JIM RING
Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands
The Perfect Spy • FRANCES DONNELLY
Graham Greene, A Sort of Life
Lives on the Edge • FRANK HERMANN
H. A. Manhood, Night Seed; Gay Agony; Apples by Night; Crack of Whips; Fierce and Gentle; Sunday Bugles; Lunatic Broth; Selected Stories; A Long View of Nothing
Smiling Through • RICHARD DAVIES
Daniele Varè, Laughing Diplomat
Academic Angst • JOSIE BARNARD
Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pastors and Masters; Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man
A Sensual but Secret World • ERIC BROWN
Rupert Croft-Cooke’s The Sensual World series
An Extraordinary Ordinary Man • RICHARD PLATT
Hans Zinsser, Rats, Lice and History; As I Remember Him: The Biography of RS
Down in the Mayfair Badlands • D. J. TAYLOR
Roger Longrigg, A High-Pitched Buzz
The Well-Connected Letter-Writer • MARIE FORSYTH
Madame de Sévigné, Selected Letters
On the North West Frontier • BRUCE COWARD
Wallace Breem, The Leopard and the Cliff; Eagle in the Snow; The Legate’s Daughter
High Flyer • TREVOR FISHLOCK
Winifred Loraine, Robert Loraine, Soldier, Actor, Airman
Thoreau’s Axe • ROGER JONES
Henry Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
Writers at Sea • JOHN DE FALBE
Alan Ross, Blindfold Games; Frank Kermode, Not Entitled
If at First • JAMES BARTHOLOMEW
P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert; Heart of a Goof
Not so Merry England • ALEXANDER LUCIE-SMITH
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
A Season in Purgatory • TRILBY KENT
Geoffrey Pyke, To Ruhleben – And Back: A Great Adventure in Three Phases
The Oldest Paper in the World • FRANCES WOOD
The Diamond Sutra
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 . . .
- Barnard, Josie
- Bartholomew, James
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Breem, Wallace
- Brown, Eric
- Childers, Erskine
- Compton-Burnett, Ivy
- Coward, Bruce
- Croft-Cooke, Rupert
- Davies, Richard
- De Falbe, John
- De Sévigné, Madame
- Diamond Sutra, The
- Donnelly, Frances
- Fishlock, Trevor
- Forsyth, Marie
- Greene, Graham
- Herrmann, Frank
- Jones, Roger
- Kent, Trilby
- Kermode, Frank
- Lewin, Angie
- Longrigg, Roger
- Loraine, Winifred
- Lucie-Smith, Alexander
- Manhood, H. A.
- Paper
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Platt, Richard
- Pyke, Geoffrey
- Ring, Jim
- Ross, Alan
- Scott, Walter
- Taylor, D. J.
- Thoreau, Henry
- Varè, Daniele
- Wodehouse, P. G.
- Wood, Frances
- Zinsser, Hans
The Oldest Paper in the World
It is not surprising that having invented paper over 2,000 years ago, the Chinese found a wide variety of ways to use it. Though the seventeenth-century landscape artist and arbiter of taste, Wen...
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In the depths of last winter the bathroom, if by no means warm, was the least glacial room in the house. Ever since the children were born it’s also been the only place in our North Norfolk home in...
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