OUT NOW! The Slightly Foxed Podcast Episode 57: Travels with Norman Lewis #podcast #bookish #travelwriter

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We are thrilled to announce that Slightly Foxed editors Hazel Wood and Gail Pirkis will be giving a talk about life at a literary magazine on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 10:00am as part of the Barnsbury Book Festival.
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‘I’ve watched it 1000 times’ – Dick Francis’s son on Devon Loch’s Grand National collapse Felix Francis, son of bestselling author Dick Francis, talks about the moment when Devon Loch collapsed under his father in the 1956 Grand National

A great write-up by Pippa Roome of #HorseandHound about our recent podcast episode on Dick Francis, with his son and co-author Felix Francis and the racing commentator Derek ‘Tommo’ Thompson.

Please read here:

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What a joy to see a couple of Slightly Foxed Spring Issues (20 years apart!) side by side. SF marches on, bright eyed and bushy tailed as always! 🦊📚

Thank you for sharing @tomslits

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Marvellous Meals There are four books in Sendak’s Nutshell Library: the cautionary tale Pierre, the ‘book of months’ Chicken Soup with Rice . . .

I wrote a bit about this for @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social (though it's mostly paywalled, sorry). About how meaningful the act of eating is for Sendak ("well eat you up, we love you so!"). foxedquarterly.com/richard-smyt...

A lovely write up of our latest Slightly Foxed Edition: Les Girls by Constance Tomkinson.

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Loved loved LOVED Dick Francis.

British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe Exclusive: Collection includes workbooks and index cards, and papers that show his research for bestseller Akenfield

Reminded, by a newsletter from @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social, that Ronald Blythe, whose archive has been acquired by the British Library (theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/british-library-acquires-archive-ronald-blythe), figures himself in the Slightly Foxed archive: foxedquarterly.com/ronald-blyth....

How lovely to see such an impressive collection of Slightly Foxed Quarterlies!

What a fantastic Slightly Foxed collection! We're delighted to see it 🦊📚

Episode 56 | The Thrilling World of Dick Francis

🎧 OUT NOW 🎧

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Coming 1 December from @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social editions:
Les Girls, Constance Tomkinson's rollicking (and for once, this is not just blurb-ese) memoir of life as a chorus girl in 1930s Europe, with an introduction by yours truly. A wonderful Christmas treat!
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Always a good day when my copy of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
‘Slightly Foxed’ arrives.

Looking forward to each & every item, especially ‘The Secret Life of Second-hand Books’ 📚📚📚

#slightlyfoxed #bibliophile

Slightly Foxed Issue 88 In this issue: Laurie Graham relishes a story of mushrooms and murder • Sam Leith pays homage to The Once and Future King . . .

Thanks to @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social for including my piece on Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing in the upcoming winter Foxed Quarterly.

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💠The @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social Autumn 2025 cover features this stunning piece by artist Melita Denaro!

🖼️ 'They shall not grow old, Remembrance, November' (2018)

👀 Browse the complete Slightly Foxed archive on Exact Editions.

Out now!

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Text says 'Gibbons sensibly realized that laughing is, for some people, braver and more radical therapy than any obtained through psycho-analysis or counselling. Many people mistakenly believe that having a laugh means that one is not taking things seriously. On the contrary There is no better way of approaching a grim and desperately serious topic, in my opinion, than by cracking a joke.' Michele Hanson – 'Poste-Freudian Therapy' on Stella Gibbons, in Slightly Foxed No.10 Summer 2006

'Many people mistakenly believe that having a laugh means that one is not taking things seriously. On the contrary There is no better way of approaching a grim and desperately serious topic, in my opinion, than by cracking a joke.' – Michele Hanson in @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social No.10

OUT NOW: Love Divine by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

With her usual consummate skill, Maxtone Graham, well-known to readers of SF, brings together the members of this small community in a light-hearted but touching story.

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Love Divine by Ysenda Maxtone Graham Love Divine by Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Slightly Foxed, Foxed Quarterly, Book Review, 2025, Books Set in Small Communities, Church Life, Village Setting

Happy Publication Day! Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s book, Love Divine, comes out today with @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social If you enjoy books centred around village life that will make you laugh, and cry a bit too, then this one is for you. Find my full review of this wonderful book in the link below. ❤️

The Slightly Foxed Podcast Episode 55: At Home with The Brontës

There has never been a literary family quite like the Brontës. In our autumn podcast Ann Dinsdale, Curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth in Yorkshire, joined the SF team to discuss the story of the family’s life there.

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Calling East Anglia dwellers and Adrian Bell fans for this exciting forthcoming event in Halesworth!

‘In one sense, words are our masters, or communication would be impossible; in another we are the masters, or there could be no poetry.’

Roger W Holmes quoted by Robin Blake in his splendidly thought-provoking essay ’Alice in the Margins’ in the latest @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social

Read most recent edition of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social over long weekend. As usual, my TBR (or TB located/purchased) list expanded. Any book budget overruns I blame on @nonsuchbook.bsky.social, who pointed me to Slightly Foxed several years ago.

Who am I kidding? I have no book budget.

It's a conundrum we face every quarter too! Hope you enjoyed the latest issue. 🦊📖

Thank you for sharing this snippet from our latest issue! We hope you enjoyed the rest of SF 87.

Sound advice from the cleric Sydney Smith, courtesy of Stephen Bayley in this quarter’s Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social.