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: Stephen Bayley falls in love with a car • Noonie Minogue is invigorated by The Story of San Michele • Tony Hufton gets a new slant on Dorothy Wordsworth • Pauline Melville meets Dostoevsky’s difficult adolescent • Roger Hudson admires the indomitable Mrs Thrale • Maggie Fergusson is moved by Alan Johnson’s childhood memoir • Martin Sorrell joins Richard Cobb at The End of the Line • Ariane Bankes is intrigued by Nigel Nicolson’s portrait of his parents’ marriage, and much more besides . . .
A Matter of Compression • STEPHEN BAYLEY on Laurence Pomeroy, The Racing Car Explained
The Agony and the Ecstasy • ARIANE BANKES on Nigel Nicolson, Portrait of a Marriage
The Sound of a Leaf • POST FALLOWFIELD on Ronald Blythe, Outsiders
Reaching for the Stars • JUSTIN MAROZZI on the novels of James Salter
Laying It on with a Trowel • NOONIE MINOGUE on Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele
Best of British • JIM RING on P.R. Reid, The Colditz Story & The Latter Days
Grace and a Great Heart • MAGGIE FERGUSSON on Alan Johnson, This Boy
The Noblest Profession • RICHARD PLATT on Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels & The Haunted Bookshop
War’s Long Tail • ISABEL LLOYD on Ian Serraillier, The Silver Sword
Joie de Vivre • MARTIN SORRELL on Richard Cobb, The End of the Line
Frills and Thrills • REBECCA WILLIS on James Laver, A Concise History of Costume
His Fate Was Sealed • ANDREW JOYNES on James Thurber, The Years with Ross
A Russian Adrian Mole • PAULINE MELVILLE on Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent
At Home with Mrs Thrale • ROGER HUDSON on Mrs Thrale’s Thraliana
The Colour of Sunlight • SUE GEE on Eva Ibbotson, The Morning Gift
Dorothy: The Highlights • TONY HUFTON on Dorothy Wordsworth’s Continental Journals
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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