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21.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OUT NOW!
Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark
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We were delighted to see the BB #books featured in this christening present round up curated by Madeline Silver for #TheField Magazine in some very good company!
Find out more about these charming #childrensbooks here:
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#ChristeningPresents
On Friday, Slightly Foxed co-founders Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood gave a talk about SF in St Winifred’s Church, Manaton, followed by tea in the village hall where a #book stand lay in wait.
It was a pleasure to meet so many lovely people. We hope you had a lovely afternoon and enjoyed the talk!
A pause in the day’s occupations, as Longfellow would have said. Picked up my @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social edition of Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger by Nigel Slater. Get a little thrill every time I see my personal number inked in on one of these. It’s silly. I know. But there it is.
07.06.2025 20:47 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0When I came across Pamela Bright's memoir of her service as a combat nurse in WWII, Life in Our Hands, I pitched an article on it to @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social. Imagine my delight when they not only accepted but decided to reissue it as a Slightly Foxed book. +
06.06.2025 18:46 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
Yesterday we had the great pleasure of teaming up with Bodies in the Bookshop to launch the Slightly Foxed summer publications.
It was such a delight to welcome new and familiar faces to St Boltoph’s Church in Cambridge to mark issue 86 and SFE No.71: Nigel Slater’s childhood memoir Toast.
It arrived❣️
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How the World Works by Sarah Perry in Slightly Foxed Magazine Summer 2025 Text says: Though generally immune to celebrity, I found myself reduced briefly to a stammering girl as I attempted to explain what his writing had done for my mind and my spirits. It had inspired me, I said, to attempt to teach myself A-level physics, but that had been a hopeless case: I was more or less innumerate, and the maths was perpetually beyond my grasp. With the generosity so evident in the Seven Brief Lessons, Rovelli told me that though he was unable to read a musical score, he loved and understood music - he took part in it, and it enriched his life. Physics, in that case, could be to me what music was to him: an endlessly unfolding avenue of learning and wonder, and never mind the inscrutable marks on the page. There, he wrote, 'shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking. Sarah Perry Is the author of novels including Melmoth and The Essex Serpent. Her latest novel, Enlightenment, published in 2024, is about love, faith and physics.
'Rovelli told me that though he was unable to read a musical score, he loved and understood music - he took part in it, and it enriched his life. Physics could be to me what music was to him: an endlessly unfolding avenue of learning and wonder, and never mind the inscrutable marks on the page.'
28.05.2025 15:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Through the mail slot today. Toast by Nigel Slater. The latest from my Slightly Foxed Editions subscription. @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social foxedquarterly.com/shop/nigel-s...
27.05.2025 22:15 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Delighted to have a piece in the new issue of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social about one of my all-time favourite memoirs, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller
26.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
A copy of Waterland by Graham Swift and the latest edition of Slightly Foxed.
The back of the most recent edition of Slightly Foxed with contributors listed including Margaret Drabble and Sarah Perry.
The essay I wrote for @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social about Graham Swift's extraordinary Waterland, is in the latest edition, in some gobsmacking company.
24.05.2025 15:55 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ooh! Treats! What a lovely edition. Thank you. @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social @nigelslater.bsky.social
23.05.2025 10:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‘There is May in books forever;
May will part from Spenser never;
May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior,
May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer . . .’
From ‘May and the Poets’ by James Henry Leigh Hunt
Pictured: the wonderful Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden, opened to the page of May
Slightly Foxed is coming to #Cambridge!
Join us to celebrate our summer publications at St. Boltoph's Church on Thursday 29 May, 2025, 6:30-8pm.
Please come and browse the new stock, enjoy a glass of wine and share some literary news and views.
RSVP: isabel@foxedquarterly.com
If you enjoyed our recent #podcast episode on travel writer Dervla Murphy, you may find the new instalment of Great Lives interesting! 🗺️🚲
Catch up with both episodes via the links below:
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‘I don’t think Slightly Foxed has ever published a #book which is not both beautiful and interesting’ Jane McMorland Hunter, Hatchards Piccadilly
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30.04.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's St George's Day, so what better time than now to turn to James Hawes's The Shortest History of England. Available in paperback and as an ebook.
23.04.2025 10:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0So enjoyed this @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social podcast on Dervla Murphy, an intrepid Irish travel writer whose work I knew nothing about. I will definitely be looking her up now. Marvellous hosting from Rosie Goldsmith too mailchi.mp/foxedquarter...
20.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thank you so much for sharing this. We're delighted to hear that you enjoyed this episode and hope you enjoy exploring the world of Dervla Murphy!
22.04.2025 10:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Slightly Foxed Podcast Episdoe 53 OUT NOW
Dervla Murphy: A Life at Full Tilt 🚲️🌍️
Click below (or go to wherever to get your podcasts) to listen to a fascinating discussion about this inimitable travel writer. 🎧️🔊
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🌷The latest Slightly Foxed cover is a beautiful ode to Spring, featuring 'Narcissi' by artist Jane Wormell.
Slightly Foxed - No. 85, Spring 2025.
👀 Browse the full @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social archive on Exact Editions.
Streatham enters history with the arrival of Dr Johnson
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In our recent podcast episode, the SF team sit down with William Golding's daughter Judy and Professor Tim Kendall @timkendall70.bsky.social to discuss this brilliant #writer. Listen via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.
foxedquarterly.com/william-golding-slightly-foxed-podcast-episode-52
Hooray! I've tracked my aunt quote down! It's Sue Gee, in an essay on Eva Ibbotson's 'The Morning Gift', in @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
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(And here's my piece jumped off it:
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‘Do you treasure ancient paperbacks, spines gone, pages browning, brittle & crumbling . . .?’
Liz Robinson asks the crucial questions in the very first issue of #SlightlyFoxed from Spring, 2004.
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#Bibliophile #Reading #Literature
Text says; 'Those you might expect to be baddies turn out to be, if not quite good, then at least good enough. A Russian guard is attacked by Jan but gives the children food, pencils and paper for their makeshift school; a German farmer complains about refugees but then houses the children; Jan, jealous of Ruth's affection, fights constantly with Edek but gives up his beloved dog to save Edeks life when he nearly drowns during a storm.' Isabel Lloyd on 'The Silver Sword' in Slightly Foxed No.85 Spring 2025 page 56
'Those you might expect to be baddies turn out to be, if not quite good, then at least good enough.'
And wouldn't we all like to be, as least, good enough
Isabel Lloyd in the Spring issue of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
Win a place on the REST + READ Reading Retreat in Wales (worth £850) 6-8th June 2025 🌊📚️
We're running a really exciting #giveaway over on #Instagram. Make sure to check it out!
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A brilliant piece on Adrian Bell! The Countryman's Quartet is available to purchase from the Slightly Foxed website or via the link below:
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