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: Samuel Saloway-Cooke experiences a George Bowling moment • Kate Hubbard eavesdrops on five Victorian marriages • Michael Barber shares a cockpit with one of The Few • Helena Drysdale remembers the elegant author of Tomorrow • Martin Williams is comforted by Rosamunde Pilcher’s September • Sue Gee enjoys a taste of parish life • Martin Sorrell adopts a new approach to books • Stephen Bayley takes advice from the Reverend Sydney Smith • Isabel Lloyd goes backstage at the National, and much more besides.
Paradise Lost • SAMUEL SALOWAY-COOKE on George Orwell, Coming Up for Air
One of the Few • MICHAEL BARBER on Geoffrey Wellum, First Light
The Idol of the Odeons • CLARA FARMER on Dirk Bogarde, A Postillion Struck by Lightning
Taking the Short View • STEPHEN BAYLEY on Nowell C. Smith (ed.), The Letters of Sydney Smith
Scenes from Parish Life • SUE GEE on Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Love Divine
Dancing the War • MATHEW LYONS on Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal
Where Past and Present Meet • MELANIE MCDONAGH on Lucy M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe
How Sweet the Music • ANN KENNEDY SMITH on Lucy M. Boston, Memory in a House
Marriage Guidance • KATE HUBBARD on Phyllis Rose, Parallel Lives
A Man in a Journey • BRANDON ROBSHAW on A. E. Coppard, Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Alice in the Margins • ROBIN BLAKE on Martin Gardner (ed.), The Annotated Alice
Have What Is Beautiful • HELENA DRYSDALE on Elisabeth Russell Taylor, Tomorrow
The Smell of Greasepaint • ISABEL LLOYD on Michael Blakemore, Arguments with England & Next Season
Flying High • TIM PEARS on Romain Gary, The Kites
Faith, Hope and Decency • MARTIN WILLIAMS on Rosamunde Pilcher, September
Glimpses of Paradise • WILLIAM PALMER on Thomas Bewick, My Life
To Read or Not to Read • MARTIN SORRELL on Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
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 . . .
- Saloway-Cooke, Samuel
- Williams, Martin
- Gardner, Martin
- Hubbard, Kate
- Farmer, Clara
- Pilcher, Rosamunde
- Gary, Romain
- Rose, Phyllis
- Boston, Lucy M.
- MacNeice, Louis
- Bogarde, Dirk
- Wellum Geoffrey
- Bayley, Stephen
- McDonagh, Melanie
- Lyons, Mathew
- Sorrell, Martin
- Taylor, Elisabeth Russell
- Lloyd, Isabel
- Smith, Ann Kennedy
- Pears, Tim
- Barber, Michael
- Blake, Robin
- Drysdale, Helena
- Gee, Sue
- Graham, Ysenda Maxtone
- Orwell, George
- Palmer, William
- Robshaw, Brandon
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