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Slightly Foxed Issue 78
  • ISBN: 9781910898802
  • Pages: 96
  • Dimensions: 210 x 148mm
  • Illustrations: B/W
  • Publication date: 1 June 2023
  • Producer: Smith Settle
  • Cover Artist: Ron Kingswood, ‘Wheat Field’, oil on canvas
  • ISSN: 1742-5794
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Slightly Foxed Issue 78

‘A Familiar Country’

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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

Flora Watkins relives a golden summer • Christian Tyler goes fly-fishing • Ursula Buchan meets a literary gardener • Ian Thomson takes a train to Budapest • Sam Leith has a bad dream • Pauline Melville drops in on Compton Mackenzie • Nick Hunt travels America’s Badlands • Maggie Fergusson encounters an unwelcome guest • Nigel Andrew follows the Good Doctor • Laura Freeman finds magic in her Hall, and much more besides . . .


A Familiar Country • FLORA WATKINS

L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between

Hooked on Fish • CHRISTIAN TYLER

Luke Jennings, Blood Knots

See also Tortoise • LAURA FREEMAN

James Hall, Hall’s Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

In Love with the League • ROBIN BLAKE

Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days and Dark Palace

A Damn Good Chap • LAURIE GRAHAM

Hilary Hook, Home from the Hill

The Littlest Ship • ANDREW JOYNES

Paul Gallico, The Snow Goose

Wilderness Years • NICK HUNT

Everett Ruess, A Vagabond for Beauty

The Tiger under the Bed • MAGGIE FERGUSSON

Fiona McFarlane, The Night Guest

A Stroll down Sinister Street • PAULINE MELVILLE

Compton Mackenzie, Sinister Street

Of Mullahs and Magic • TIM BLANCHARD

Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet

Before Darkness Fell • IAN THOMSON

In the footsteps of Eric Ambler’s spy novels

Fertile Ground • URSULA BUCHAN

Katharine S. White, Onward and Upward in the Garden

The Stuff of Nightmares • SAM LEITH

Nicholas Fisk, Grinny

Having the Last Word • ANTHONY QUINN

Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

The Benefits of Writing a Biography • FRANCES DONNELLY

Alison Lurie, The Truth about Lorin Jones

In Johnson’s Footsteps • NIGEL ANDREW

Lichfield’s most famous son, Samuel Johnson


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 . . . 



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