Slightly Foxed Quarterly, Winter 2019
London: Slightly Foxed Ltd, 2019. Seren Bell (cover illustration). No. 64. Softcover. New. B/W illustrations. Bibliography. 15 x 21 cm. 95 pp. Item #11428
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine.
In this issue
Laurie Graham prepares for a Cradock-style Christmas • Charles Elliott picks up some 18th-century gossip • Daisy Hay accepts Joyce Grenfell’s invitation • D. J. Taylor finds romance in Ayrshire • Amanda Theunissen discovers there’s No Bed for Bacon • Patrick Welland rejoins the British Council • Maggie Fergusson discusses love and friendship with Rose Tremain • Oliver Pritchett tries not to repeat himself • Henry Jeffreys shares a cockpit with Roald Dahl • A. F. Harrold enters Joan Aiken’s parallel world, and much more besides . . .
Accepting an Invitation • DAISY HAY
Joyce Grenfell, Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure
A Master of Invention • HENRY JEFFREYS
Roald Dahl, Going Solo
Thames Valley Blues • CHRIS SAUNDERS
Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude
Playing it for Laughs • AMANDA THEUNISSEN
Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon, Don’t, Mr Disraeli! & No Bed for Bacon
Ayrshire Romantic • D. J. TAYLOR
Gordon Williams, From Scenes Like These
The Fanny Factor • LAURIE GRAHAM
Fanny Cradock, Coping with Christmas
Anguish Revisited • POSY FALLOWFIELD
Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
Love and Friendship • MAGGIE FERGUSSON
An interview with the novelist Rose Tremain
Have I Already Told You . . . ? • OLIVER PRITCHETT
James Sutherland (ed.), The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Airborne Division • MARTIN SORRELL
Joseph Kessel, The Crew
A Delight in Digression • DAVID SPILLER
Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
Building Jerusalem • ALISON LIGHT
Ruth Adler, Beginning Again
Great Gossips • CHARLES ELLIOTT
T. H. White, The Age of Scandal & The Scandalmonger
All the World’s a Stage • HELEN RICHARDSON
Simon Callow, Being an Actor
Joan’s Books • A. F. HARROLD
The children’s books of Joan Aiken
Perilous Times • PATRICK WELLAND
Olivia Manning’s Levant trilogy
‘Slightly Foxed: or, the Widower of Bayswater’ • WILLIAM PLOMER.
Price: HK$150.00
