In this issue
John Walsh remembers his friend Beryl Bainbridge • Morag MacInnes rereads the haunting Orkney stories of Eric Linklater • Derek Parker recalls the world evoked by Arnold Bennett’s diaries • Melissa Harrison tucks Oliver Rackham’s History of the English Countryside into her backpack • Andrew Merrills journeys west with a monkey king • Victoria Neumark dips into a Walter de la Mare anthology • Dick Russell suggests that Churchill might have benefited from a reading of C. S. Forester’s novel The General • Frances Wood researches the explosive history of rhubarb • William Palmer is kidnapped • Cheryl Tipp listens to the memoirs of a birdman • Martin Sorrell takes pleasure in small things . . .
The Flight in the Heather • WILLIAM PALMER
Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
Grandma’s Footsteps • OLIVER PRITCHETT
Harold Carlton, Marrying Out
A Living Landscape • MELISSA HARRISON
Oliver Rackham, The Illustrated History of the Countryside
He Did His Duty • DICK RUSSELL
C.S. Forester, The General
Marvellous Therapy • JOHN WALSH
On the novels of Beryl Bainbridge
Written on the Heart • VICTORIA NEUMARK
Walter de la Mare (ed.), Come Hither
Winning Their Spurs • CHRISTIAN TYLER
Ronald Welch, Bowman of Crécy; The Hawk
174517 • DAVID SPILLER
Primo Levi, If This Is a Man; The Truce
With an Ear to the Earth • CHERYL TIPP
Ludwig Koch, Memoirs of a Birdman
Small Is Beautiful • MARTIN SORRELL
Philippe Delerm, La Première gorgée de bière
Monkey Business • ANDREW MERRILLS
Wu Ch’êng-ên, Monkey
Sleuthing with the Colonel • MARK VALENTINE
Philip MacDonald, The Gethryn books
A Love Affair with Orkney • MORAG MACINNES
Eric Linklater, Sealskin Trousers
The Purveyor of Popular Fiction • DEREK PARKER
On The Journals of Arnold Bennett
On Man, the Human Heart and Human Life • C.J. DRIVER
On the novels of Stanley Middleton
Growing Up with Winston • JIM RING
Winston Churchill, My Early Life
Rhubarb! • FRANCES WOOD
On the history of Chinese rhubarb
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 . . .
- Bainbridge, Beryl
- Carlton, Harold
- Churchill, Winston
- De la Mare, Walter
- Delerm, Philippe
- Driver, C. J.
- Flower, Norman
- Forester, C. S.
- Grimmond, Pam
- Harrison, Melissa
- Hassall, Joan
- Koch, Ludwig
- Levi, Primo
- Lindsley, Kathleen
- MacDonald, Philip
- MacInnes, Morag
- Merrills, Andrew
- Middleton, Stanley
- Neumark, Victoria
- Palmer, William
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Pritchett, Oliver
- Rackham, Oliver
- Ring, Jim
- Russell, Dick
- Sorrell, Martin
- Spiller, David
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Tipp, Cheryl
- Tyler, Christian
- Valentine, Mark
- Walsh, John
- Welch, Ronald
- Wood, Frances
- Wu Ch’êng-ên
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