In this issue
Tim Mackintosh-Smith gets the shivers with M. R. James • Penelope Lively follows Barry Lopez to the Arctic • David Gilmour recaptures his childhood with Rosemary Sutcliff • Christopher Rush remembers Orkney’s Prospero • Annabel Walker discovers new ways of reading the landscape • John Saumarez Smith recalls his first Christmases as a bookseller in Mayfair • Irma Kurtz sees modern America in The Scarlet Letter • Jill Paton Walsh learns how books were smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain • Richard Woodman is haunted by The Cruel Sea • Emma Tennant takes a phone call from Jackie O…
Now We’re Shut in for the Night • TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH
M.R. James, ‘Casting the Runes’ and Other Ghost Stories
Funny Side of the Street • MIKE PETTY
Michael Frayn, Towards the End of the Morning
The Man Who Read the Land • ANNABEL WALKER
W. G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape
Ancient Worlds • DAVID GILMOUR
Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers
Northern Lights • PENELOPE LIVELY
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Orkney’s Prospero • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
The essays of George Mackay Brown
My First Gethsemane • JOHN SAUMAREZ SMITH
Remembering bookselling with Heywood Hill
A Passion for Crustaceans • DUFF HART-DAVIS
Richard Shelton, The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water’s Edge
Voyage in the Dark • PATRICIA CLEVELAND-PECK
The novels of of Jean Rhys
Hand and Mind Together • SIMON BRETT
Illustration
The Price of Addle Tree • IRMA KURTZ
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
A Matter of Trust • JILL PATON WALSH
Jessica Douglas-Home, Once Upon Another Time
Friends Reunited • ELISABETH RUSSELL TAYLOR
Sándor Márai, Embers
Unsung Heroes • RICHARD WOODMAN
Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea
A Tuft of a Masterpiece • ANTHONY PERRY
Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
O Jackie . . . • EMMA TENNANT
Jacqueline Onassis
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 . . .
- Anderson, Hans Christian
- Bookshops and bookselling
- Brett, Simon
- Brown, George Mackay
- Children’s stories
- Connolly, Cyril
- Dabrowska, Maria
- Douglas-Home, Jessica
- Frayn, Michael
- Gilmour, David
- Griesemer, John
- Hart-Davis, Duff
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hinton, Nigel
- Hoskins, W. G.
- James, M. R.
- Kurtz, Irma
- Lagerlöf, Selma
- Lively, Penelope
- Longo, Giuseppe
- Lopez, Barry
- Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Márai, Sándor
- Monsarrat, Nicholas
- Nesbit, E.
- Onassis, Jacqueline
- Perry, Anthony
- Petty, Mike
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Rhys, Jean
- Rush, Christopher
- Searle, Ronald
- Shelton, Richard
- Smith, John Saumarez
- Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Taylor, Elisabeth Russell
- Tennant, Emma
- Timmermans, Felix
- Walker, Annabel
- Walsh, Jill Paton
- Woodman, Richard
Roman Wall
‘In clear and elegant prose he described how lanes and hedges, copses, farmsteads, fields and place names could tell the story of the past and explain the configuration of the present . . .'
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