Category: Slightly Foxed
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Slightly Foxed is one of life's most wonderful pleasures. Their quarterly is always full of fascinating and interesting articles on books past and present and their own published books are also quirky and lovely to hold and to own. Over the last few years they have reprinted the Carey novels of Ronal Welch. These start…
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A few weeks ago I read Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff in the gorgeous new edition from Slightly Foxed. I had not read these Roman Britain novels as a child as I always preferred her stories set in the Tudor period. Well, I missed out on a treat then, but discovered them later…
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The question I asked myself when reading this simply wonderful book, was why have I not read it before? I am sure there are many of you, O Gentle Reader, who ask the same. I loved Rosemary Sutcliff as a child and teenager but the books I read were Brother Dusty Feet, Simon, The Queen…
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I love Slightly Foxed and their quarterly and their gorgeous books. I have subscribed, unsubscribed and now subscribed again. I cannot seem to stay away. The reason I gave up on my sub for a year or two was that I just had too much to read, their lovely beautifully designed and interesting quarterlies were…
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Off to London later and away for a few days staying with family. I am loaded with pressies and Easter Eggs and even the fun of driving along the A12 and North Circular to get to them will not take away the joy. I always take a book or two with me though why I…
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I love looking at the book supplements and colour mags at this time of the year with all the recommendations for Chrissy pressies. The great and the good and the litterati come up with their list of tomes and I am sure they are chosen for effect and to show high frightfully intellectual they all…
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I was fortunate enough to receive an invitation to the tenth birthday celebration of Slightly Foxed, that wonderful literary quarterly full of snippets of delight and wonderful articles by an eclectic selection of contributors. I don't suppose when they started that they thought that they would still be going in ten years time but they…
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Slightly Foxed is one of life's most wonderful pleasures. Their quarterly is always full of fascinating and interesting articles on books past and present and their own published books are also quirky and lovely to hold and to own. I am simply delighted that they are reprinting Ronald Welch's Carey Novels. These were written between…
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Never fails to amaze me the serendipidty that exists in the book world. A few weeks ago I read Knight Crusader by Ronald Welch, one of my favourite children's books and reviewed here. I expressed the wish that some more would be reprinted and lo and behold up comes Slightly Foxed with its plan to…
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Next up my non-fiction choices for this year with links to the original review. The Astaires: Fred and Ava - Judith Riley The Young Ardizzone – Edward Ardizzone Slightly Foxed edition Beautiful for Ever – Helen Rappaport What Matters in Jane Austen – John Mullan Mrs Robinson's Disgrace – Kate Summerscale The Great Charles Dickens…
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The editions are limited to 2,000 and numbered by hand by the traditional bookbinders, Smith Settle, near Leeds. (Much printing these days is done overseas.) They sell for £12.50, but their early publications, such as Rosemary Sutcliff’s Blue Remembered Hills, can now be found on second-hand book website Abebooks for £80. via www.telegraph.co.uk This was…
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Up to London today to meet a friend and to attend the Cecil Beaton Portraits of the Queen exhibition at the V&A. No matter how hard I tell myself that getting on the train is voluntary and that I am no longer commuting, I find it very hard to shake off the feeling of apprehension…
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Along with most of us I suspect, I only knew Dodie Smith as the author of 101 Dalmatians and it remained this way until in my mid-forties I came across a battered old green Virago edition of I captured the Castle and realised it was the same author. I read it and loved it and…
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A couple of years ago I reviewed a book called Kisses on a Postcard. I started the post by saying 'this is a lovely lovely book'. I felt that was the only way I could describe it and how much I had enjoyed it. Well, here I go again. Look back with Love is a…
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"You must have had the experience of finding yourself so absorbed by the world conjured up in a book that you read it ever more slowly – battling the urgent desire to find out what happens next – because you can’t bear to get to the end" These are the opening lines of an article…
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I was recently contacted by Slightly Foxed and asked if I would like to write on Random about same and of course I am simply delighted to do so. The more people know about this publication the better. I am going to own up straight away and say that I no longer subscribe to Slightly…