In this issue
John Saumarez Smith remembers the diarists’ diarist • Fiammetta Rocco joins the Mafia • Sue Gee cooks with a poet • Anne Boston dates Philip Marlowe • Andreas Campomar recalls an improvident youth • Malcolm Gluck spends a weekend in Timaru • Derek Parker enjoys some small talk • C. J. Driver reads an unusual school report • The Book Hound goes stocking-filling . . .
Cooking with a Poet • SUE GEE
Paul Roche, Cooking with a Poet
Trouble at Tampling • C. J. DRIVER
J. L. Carr, The Harpole Report
From National Trust . . . • GRANT MCINTYRE
On the works of James Lees-Milne
. . . to National Treasure • JOHN SAUMAREZ SMITH
On the works of James Lees-Milne
A Man’s Man • JULIA ROCHESTER
Eric Linklater, The Dark of Summer
Nuffin’ Like a Puffin • KATE DUNN
Roger Lancelyn Green, Tales of the Greek Heroes
In the Garden of Death and Plenty • FIAMMETTA ROCCO
Peter Robb, Midnight in Sicily
Down These Mean Streets • ANNE BOSTON
Raymond Chandler, The Philip Marlowe stories
A Cab at the Door • HAZEL WOOD
Gwen Raverat, Period Piece
Weekend in Timaru • MALCOLM GLUCK
On the works of Owen Marshall
Better ’an Heaven • DEREK PARKER
Cecil Torr, Small Talk at Wreyland
Wrestling with a Fine Woman • ROGER HUDSON
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
He Stayed the Course • ANDREAS CAMPOMAR
Simon Raven, Alms for Oblivion
Quite Mesmerizing • CLIVE UNGER-HAMILTON
George du Maurier, Trilby
The Golden Thread • HAZEL WOOD
On the publications of Jane Nissen Books
The Book Hound
Our Book Hound tracks down some ideal books to fill Slightly Foxed Christmas stockings
Up There on a Visit • MIKE PETTY
On visiting a poet in Scotland
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 . . .
- Bookshops and bookselling
- Boston, Anne
- Campomar, Andreas
- Carr, J. L.
- Cawthorne, Nigel
- Chandler, Raymond
- Cookery
- Driver, C. J.
- Du Maurier, George
- Dunn, Kate
- Fermine, Maxence
- Gee, Sue
- Gluck, Malcolm
- Hudson, Roger
- Jane Nissen Books
- Jones, Cleolinda
- Lancelyn Green, Roger
- Lees-Milne, James
- Linklater, Eric
- Macartney-Snape, Sue
- Marshall, Owen
- McIntyre, Grant
- Meynell, Francis
- Parker, Derek
- Petty, Mike
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Raven, Simon
- Raverat, Gwen
- Robb, Peter
- Rocco, Fiammetta
- Roche, Paul
- Rochester, Julia
- Smith, John Saumarez
- Tey, Josephine
- The Book Hound
- Torr, Cecil
- Unger-Hamilton, Clive
- Webb, Kaye
- Wining and dining poets, the dangers of
- Wood, Hazel
Up There on a Visit
It was the custom then, in the late ’70s, and still is for all I know, for editors to saunter forth from their ivory towers and visit bookshops with the reps, experience life at the sharp end of...
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