Our literary gift bundle, A Taste of Slightly Foxed, combines the current issue of the quarterly – Issue 88 – and our new Slightly Foxed Edition, No. 73: Les Girls, and makes an ideal introduction to Slightly Foxed.
Slightly Foxed, Issue 88
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 . . .
SF Edition, Les Girls (No. 73)
‘Wanted. Dancers for Scandinavian tour. Must be experienced tap and ballet,’ read the advertisement in The Stage. Constance Tomkinson was experienced at neither but, as she tells us in her gloriously funny memoir Les Girls, she was broke and desperate. To her astonishment she passed the audition and soon found herself in the chorus line of a company called the Millerettes and on her way to Sweden . . .
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