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: Laurie Graham relishes a story of mushrooms and murder • Sam Leith pays homage to The Once and Future King • Maggie Fergusson is comforted by Gerard Manley Hopkins • Bryan Appleyard finds hope in a terrifying novel • Jo Rodgers has fun with the North London literati • Justin Marozzi discovers An Appetite for Paris • William Davies goes Steeple Chasing • Anthony Wells discovers there’s Room at the Top • Daisy Hay admits she’s in love with Adam Dalgleish, and much more besides . . .
Pure Magic • SAM LEITH on T. H. White, The Once and Future King
Travelling for Kicks • BRAD BIGELOW on Constance Tomkinson, Les Girls
Northern Lights • JONATHAN LAW on Peter Davidson, The Idea of the North
An Affair to Remember • FIONA MCKENZIE JOHNSTON on Rosamond Lehmann, The Weather in the Streets
Village Voices • NED VESSEY on Adam Thorpe, Ulverton
Hats Off to P. D. James • DAISY HAY on P. D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh novels
Sweet Sounds Together • MAGGIE FERGUSSON on the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bats and Belfries • WILLIAM DAVIES on Peter Ross, Steeple Chasing
Living in Someone Else’s Life • BRYAN APPLEYARD on Benjamin Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
Travels with Tarquin • LAURIE GRAHAM on John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure
Telling It Straight • ANTHONY WELLS on John Braine, Room at the Top
A Story of Love Denied • CHRIS SAUNDERS on Jem Poster, Courting Shadows
How to Marry an Earl • EMILY SCHROEDER on Eva Ibbotson, A Countess below Stairs
An Insatiable Appetite • JUSTIN MAROZZI on A. J. Liebling, Between Meals
Lost Moments in Time • DAVID FLEMING on The Batsford Colour Books
The Secret Life of Second-hand Books • SARAH LONSDALE on Mini-archives of the past
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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