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Slightly Foxed Issue 86
  • ISBN: 9781916803008
  • Pages: 96
  • Dimensions: 210 x 148mm
  • Illustrations: B/W
  • Publication date: 1 June 2025
  • Producer: Smith Settle
  • Cover Artist: Tim Hayward, ‘Kingfisher’
  • ISSN: 1742-5794
  • Issue Subtitle: ‘Good Books and Artichoke Bottoms’
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Slightly Foxed Issue 86 - Release date: 1 June 2025

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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: Sarah Perry takes Seven Brief Lessons in Physics • Anthony Wells discovers there’s Room at the Top • Laura Freeman is soothed by The French Country Housewife • Sam Saloway-Cooke is bowled over by Orwell’s Coming Up for Air • Daisy Hay goes shopping with Evelina • David Fleming enjoys a colourful tour of England • Helen MacEwan finds company at Juniper Hall • Andrew Nixon makes toast with Nigel Slater • Isabel Lloyd goes backstage at The National • George Cochrane admires the major life of a minor poet, and much more besides . . .


 

Good Books and Artichoke Bottoms • LAURA FREEMAN on Cora Millet-Robinet, The French Country Housewife

Hungry for Love • ANDREW NIXON on Nigel Slater, Toast

Teasing the Romantics • TOM HODGKINSON on Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey

How the World Works • SARAH PERRY on Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Terror among the Wheatfields • CORIN THROSBY on Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Over the Moon • GRANT MCINTYRE on Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon 

Always the Same River • JON WOOLCOTT on Graham Swift, Waterland

Call It What You Like • CAROLINE SANDERSON on Alexandra Fuller, Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight

An Epic Undertaking • SIMON SCOTT PLUMMER on Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene

The Novel that Wrote Itself • JULIA JONES on Margery Allingham, Blackkerchief Dick

Italian Hours • MARGARET DRABBLE on Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Fawn

Death and the Journalist • POSY FALLOWFIELD on Antonio Tabucchi, Pereira Maintains

A Haunted Life • FRANCES DONNELLY on David Storey, Saville

Always Open to Beauty • RICHARD SMYTH on Richard Bell, Richard Bell’s Britain

The Glory that Rome Wasn’t • DAVID FLEMING on James Leslie Mitchell, Spartacus

Credendo Vides • ALASTAIR GLEGG on James C. Christensen, The Voyage of the Bassett

At England’s Edge • KATE MORGAN on Ida Gandy, An Idler on the Shropshire Borders

 


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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