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Slightly Foxed | The magazine for booklovers
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2019
Eclectic, elegant and entertaining, Slightly Foxed is the independent-minded literary review magazine, small press and podcast that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s rather like having a well-read friend.
Each issue offers lively personal recommendations for books of lasting interest - books, including fiction and non-fiction, that have stood the test of time and have left their mark on the people who write about them. It’s an eclectic mix, and our contributors are an eclectic bunch too - some well-known, others not so, but all passionate about sharing their enthusiasm for a book or author.
Our readers enjoy the way Slightly Foxed opens up unexpected new horizons and they love the way it looks and feels - printed on elegant cream paper and bound at a traditional printing press. They love our beautifully produced series of classic memoirs, vintage children’s novels and one-off books too.
Each issue offers lively personal recommendations for books of lasting interest - books, including fiction and non-fiction, that have stood the test of time and have left their mark on the people who write about them. It’s an eclectic mix, and our contributors are an eclectic bunch too - some well-known, others not so, but all passionate about sharing their enthusiasm for a book or author.
Our readers enjoy the way Slightly Foxed opens up unexpected new horizons and they love the way it looks and feels - printed on elegant cream paper and bound at a traditional printing press. They love our beautifully produced series of classic memoirs, vintage children’s novels and one-off books too.
Slightly Foxed x BookTrust Charity Prize Draw | Draw Closes 16 Sept
As many readers will know, this year Slightly Foxed is celebrating twenty years in print. When the magazine turned ten in 2014, we celebrated by raising over £5,500 for Great Ormond Street Hospital School with the proceeds from the sales of a little book of famous people’s drawings of foxes. And now, here we are, hoping to mark our twentieth birthday year by raising up to £20,000 for another good bookish cause: the brilliant BookTrust - the national charity dedicated to getting children reading. We have already raised over £11,000! If you would like to enter the draw please make sure you do so before the draw closes at midnight on 16 September.
There are twenty covetable prizes (and one bonus prize) from Slightly Foxed, our friends and sponsors worth from £100-£1500 on offer. The draw is open to readers all around the world but overseas friends should please note that a number of the prizes are UK-based trips, stays or tours.
There are twenty covetable prizes (and one bonus prize) from Slightly Foxed, our friends and sponsors worth from £100-£1500 on offer. The draw is open to readers all around the world but overseas friends should please note that a number of the prizes are UK-based trips, stays or tours.
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50: Barbara Comyns: Stranger than Fiction | Slightly Foxed
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Any mention of Barbara Comyns usually brings an ‘I know the name but I don’t know anything about her’ kind of response. In this quarter’s literary podcast, presenter Rosie Goldsmith and the Slightly Foxed Editors sit down with Barbara’s biographer Avril Horner and Brett Wolstencroft, Manager of Daunt Books, to discover who this fascinating and forgotten novelist really was. Though Barbara enjoy...
My Salinger Year: Joanna Rakoff & Rosie Goldsmith in Conversation | Slightly Foxed
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‘There was no voicemail. I was the voicemail.’ In this out-of-series special episode of the Slightly Foxed podcast Joanna Rakoff, author of the 2008 literary smash hit My Salinger Year (foxedquarterly.com/shop/joanna-rakoff-my-salinger-year/) (released as a Slightly Foxed limited-edition hardback in March 2024), joins us down the line from her home in Massachusetts for a conversation with our p...
49: Down to Earth: A Farming Revival | Slightly Foxed
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Sarah Langford, author of Rooted: How Regenerative Farming Can Change the World (foxedquarterly.com/shop/sarah-langford-rooted-stories-life-land-farming-revolution/) , joins the Slightly Foxed Editors and presenter Rosie Goldsmith round the kitchen table to tell us how and why she gave up her career as a criminal barrister to become a farmer, and about the woman who was her inspiration: Eve Bal...
48: Dear Dodie | Slightly Foxed
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Dodie Smith was a phenomenally prolific writer who experienced huge success in her lifetime but is now remembered mainly for her much-loved coming of age novel I Capture the Castle , and her bestselling The Hundred and One Dalmatians . In this quarter’s literary podcast, coinciding with the revival of her play Dear Octopus at the National Theatre, Dodie’s biographer Valerie Grove joins the Slig...
47: Aspects of Orwell | Slightly Foxed
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D. J. Taylor, literary critic, novelist and Whitbread Prize-winning author of the definitive Orwell: The Life and its highly acclaimed sequel The New Life (foxedquarterly.com/shop/d-j-taylor-orwell-new-life/) , and Masha Karp, Orwell scholar, former Russian features editor at the BBC World Service and author of George Orwell and Russia (foxedquarterly.com/shop/masha-karp-george-orwell-russia/) ...
46: Return to Kettle’s Yard | Slightly Foxed
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Laura Freeman, chief art critic at The Times and author of Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists (foxedquarterly.com/shop/laura-freeman-ways-of-life/) , and Kettle’s Yard Director Andrew Nairne take us back to Cambridge in this follow-up to Episode 30 of the Foxed pod. Jim Ede was a man for whom art, books, beauty, friendship and creativity were essential facets of a happy and ful...
45: Ronald Blythe: A Life Well Written | Slightly Foxed
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‘I would like to be remembered as a good writer and a good man . . . Writers are observers. We are natural lookers, watchers . . . it seems to me quite wonderful that I have so long been able to make a living from something I love so much.’ So wrote the writer, editor and famed chronicler of rural life Ronald Blythe for the Mail on Sunday in 2004. That Ronald (or Ronnie, as he preferred to be k...
44: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark | Slightly Foxed
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The writer Jean Rhys is best known for Wide Sargasso Sea , her haunting prequel to Jane Eyre , yet her own life would have made for an equally compelling novel. Miranda Seymour, author of the definitive Jean Rhys biography I Used to Live Here Once , joins the Slightly Foxed team to follow Rhys’s often rackety life and shine light on her writing. Born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams on the island o...
43: Dinner with Joseph Johnson | Slightly Foxed
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Bookseller, publisher, Dissenter and dinner-party host, Joseph Johnson was a great enabler in the late 18th-century literary landscape . . . Daisy Hay is the author of Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age and Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter, and Kathryn Sutherland is the author of Why Modern Manuscript Matters and Senior R...
42: Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure | Slightly Foxed
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Paddy Leigh Fermor was just 18 when he set forth from the Hook of Holland, bound for the Golden Horn . . . Artemis Cooper, Paddy’s biographer, and Nick Hunt, author of Walking the Woods and the Water , join the Slightly Foxed team to explore the life and literary work of Patrick Leigh Fermor. Equipped with a gift for languages, a love of Byron and a rucksack full of notebooks, in December 1933 ...
41: Barbara Pym and Other Excellent Women | Slightly Foxed
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A latter-day Austen, an academic, a romantic, a comic, a caustic chronicler of the commonplace . . . The novelist Barbara Pym became beloved and Booker Prize-nominated in the late twentieth century, yet many rejections, years in the literary wilderness and manuscripts stored in linen cupboards preceded her revival. Paula Byrne, author of The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym , and Lucy Scholes, cr...
40: Adrian Bell: Back to the Land | Slightly Foxed
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The farmer-cum-writer Adrian Bell is best-known for his rural trilogy of Suffolk farming life, Corduroy , Silver Ley and The Cherry Tree . To explore Bell’s life and writing the Slightly Foxed editors are joined by Richard Hawking, chairman of the Adrian Bell Society, author of At the Field’s Edge: Adrian Bell and the English Countryside and editor of A Countryman’s Winter Notebook, a selection...
39: Idle Moments: Literary Loafers through the Ages and Pages | Slightly Foxed
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In the spirit of Plato’s Symposium , the Slightly Foxed team enter into lively dialogue with two distinguished magazine editors, Tom Hodgkinson of the Idler and Harry Mount of the Oldie , and learn lessons from notable loafers in literature. We begin with Doctor Johnson, an icon of indolence who wrote an essay called ‘The Idler’ and liked time to ponder; this lazy lexicographer claimed his dict...
38: Literary Drinking: Alcohol in the Lives and Work of Writers | Slightly Foxed
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Booze as muse or a sure road to ruin? In this month’s episode, William Palmer - author of In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers - and Henry Jeffreys - author of Empire of Booze and The Cocktail Dictionary - join the Slightly Foxed team to mull over why alcohol is such an enduring feature in literature. From the omnipresence of cocktails in John Cheever’s short stories...
37: Rewriting the Script: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath with her acclaimed...
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37: Rewriting the Script: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath with her acclaimed...
36: Graphic Novels: A Comic Turn with Posy Simmonds & Paul Gravett | Slightly Foxed
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36: Graphic Novels: A Comic Turn with Posy Simmonds & Paul Gravett | Slightly Foxed
35: Decline and Fall: A Literary Guide | Slightly Foxed
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35: Decline and Fall: A Literary Guide | Slightly Foxed
34: Sybille Bedford’s Appetite for Life | Slightly Foxed
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34: Sybille Bedford’s Appetite for Life | Slightly Foxed
33: The Golden Age of Crime Writing | Slightly Foxed
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33: The Golden Age of Crime Writing | Slightly Foxed
32: Picnic at Hanging Rock & Other Stories | Slightly Foxed
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32: Picnic at Hanging Rock & Other Stories | Slightly Foxed
31: The Magic of Angela Carter | Slightly Foxed
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31: The Magic of Angela Carter | Slightly Foxed
30: Jim Ede’s Way of Life | Slightly Foxed
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30: Jim Ede’s Way of Life | Slightly Foxed
28: An Odyssey through the Classics | Slightly Foxed
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28: An Odyssey through the Classics | Slightly Foxed
27: Dr Wiener’s Library | Slightly Foxed
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27: Dr Wiener’s Library | Slightly Foxed
25: A Writer’s Territory | Slightly Foxed
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25: A Writer’s Territory | Slightly Foxed
24: The Lives and Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb | Slightly Foxed
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24: The Lives and Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb | Slightly Foxed
23: A Writer in the Kitchen | Slightly Foxed
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23: A Writer in the Kitchen | Slightly Foxed
This is one of my favorite podcasts; I don't always understand the who-done-it and I am always surprised by the who and the why; missing the clues given. I enjoy reading good crime stories, just the same...ambiguous and all!
Enjoyed listening to this today; felt just what I needed. Thank you!
Nice to find the Slightly Foxed group on the tube, but it would be nice to view them in their workspace while discussing this art of travel writing. Oh well, can't have it all.
Loving this, thank you so much
Unfortunately Marsha had to diminish what was otherwise a superb commentary on Orwell with her biases regarding the Russian/Ukrainian conflict, which have no bearing on Orwell's legacy or thought. Indeed, if he were alive today he might well set aside his romanticism for analysis and learn that NATO and the US have been provoking Russia for decades by moving NATO/US closer to their border, expanding NATO membership, overthrowing an elected government, and proposing NATO membership for Ukraine. If we' re talking democracy I would not start with Ukraine (not so sure about the UK, for that matter). I have the facsimile edition of 1984 (Harcourt Brace, 1984, $75.00) with Orwell's handwritten notation along with his typing;: remarkable! So good to have more scholarship on this great man...
Its September? Winter issue going to press? What year is this?
lovely cosy podcast. more please!
Such an interesting & enjoyable conversation. Lovely to see you both talking & hope you do more of these vlogs. Have ordered the book (it was on my to get list but this made me order it sooner rather than later)!
This is lovely and new to me from Slightly good luck with this new genre for TH-cam. Fabulously live. Nice.
Truly marvellous. When I've run out of episodes, I go back to the beginning and start all over again.
Ordered my copy after such a fabulous podcast. Superb stuff, and how nice to have Joanna R., appreciate the Everyman Library at the start. Good taste, ma'am!
I’m really looking forward to reading this one 😊great narrator