Our literary gift bundle, A Taste of Slightly Foxed, combines the current issue of the quarterly – Issue 91 – and our new Slightly Foxed Edition, Nos. 76 & 77: No Leading Lady, Vol I & II, and makes an ideal introduction to Slightly Foxed.
Slightly Foxed, Issue 91
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, and much more besides . . .
SF Edition, No Leading Lady, Vol I & II
The author of numerous plays, novels and film scripts, Sherriff is best remembered for his novel The Fortnight in September and his play Journey’s End, based on his experiences in the First World War trenches – still regularly revived and a popular choice for school plays – which he originally wrote to raise money to help his local rowing club buy a new boat. The play went down well with the local audience in Surbiton, and in December 1928 was given a single Sunday performance by the Incorporated Stage Society at the Apollo Theatre, with the 21-year-old Laurence Olivier in the leading role. It was an unexpected sensation, and No Leading Lady follows Sherriff’s translation from his modest job as an adjustor for the Sun Insurance Company, to full-time writer and eventually one of the best-paid scriptwriters in Hollywood.
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