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: Guy Stagg meets some imperfect priests • Kathryn Hughes does a ward round with Monica Dickens • C. J. Schüler visits Nazi Germany After Midnight • Raffaella Barker is spellbound by The Transylvanian Trilogy • David Profumo goes fishing with Negley Farson • Frances Donnelly meets ‘the man who saved England’ • Richard Smyth listens to the birds of Victorian London • Vesna Goldsworthy rereads Turgenev • Michael Barber pumps iron in the American South • Maggie Fergusson pays tribute to SOE’s lost agents, and much more besides . . .
The Man Who Saved England • FRANCES DONNELLY on James Lees-Milne’s early diaries
No Accidental Dramatist • ISABEL LLOYD on R. C. Sherriff, No Leading Lady
Completely Hooked • DAVID PROFUMO on Negley Farson, Going Fishing
Dancing with Disaster • RAFFAELLA BARKER on Miklos Banffy, The Transylvanian Trilogy
A Quintuple Life • PATRICK WELLAND on John Banville, The Untouchable
Rereading Turgenev • VESNA GOLDSWORTHY on Turgenev, First Love
Privy Counsel • DAVID ECCLES on Charles Sale, The Specialist
The Enigma that was Vera • MAGGIE FERGUSSON on Sarah Helm, Vera Atkins: A Life in Secrets
Song of the City • RICHARD SMYTH on W. H. Hudson, Birds of London
A Necromantic Imagination • IAN THOMSON on Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest-Book
A Wry Eye on the Ward • KATHRYN HUGHES on Monica Dickens, One Pair of Feet
Skating on Thin Ice • C. J. SCHÜLER on Irmgard Keun, After Midnight
The People’s Queen • ANTHONY GARDNER on Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeth the Great
Pumping Iron • MICHAEL BARBER on Charles Gaines, Stay Hungry
Imperfect Priests • GUY STAGG on George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
Artefacts, Arguments and Ideas • CLARE MULLEY on Saffron Walden’s Gibson Library
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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