OUT NOW! The Slightly Foxed Podcast Episode 57: Travels with Norman Lewis #podcast #bookish #travelwriter foxedquarterly.com/norman-lewis...

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. ⁠ Tickets are available here: www.barnsburybookfestival.org/authors/slig...

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: www.horseandhound.co.uk/racing/dick-...

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 View our new Spring Issue here: foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightl...

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. foxedquarterly.com/shop/constan...

Loved loved LOVED Dick Francis.

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!

Episode 56 | The Thrilling World of Dick Francis 🎧 OUT NOW 🎧 foxedquarterly.com/dick-francis...

@ccmatters.bsky.social read and enjoyed (of course), I can turn my attention to @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social, also awaiting my return from warmer climes. Yes, that’s a blanket it is photographed against, a blanket I am sitting under as I settle in. I expect to be rewarded.

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! foxedquarterly.com/shop/constan...

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

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

💠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! foxedquarterly.com/shop/constan...

'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. Find out more: foxedquarterly.com/shop/ysenda-maxtone-graham-love-divine

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.

Thank you for sharing this piece!

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.

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

This came @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social. Two essays about books/authors I have written about elsewhere. It’s making me feel particularly refined (or something). Here’s a link to one of mine, because it’s hard to resist the urge to plug my favorite work of mine: www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/loui...

Sydney Smith on low spirits: 'Don't expect too much from human life - a sorry business at the best. Avoid...everything likely to excite feeling or emotion not ending in active benevolence.' quoted by Stephen Bayley in 'Taking the Short View' in the latest @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing this gorgeous photo and providing such a lovely article on Lucy M. Boston. The Green Knowe books were a much-treasured staple for many of us growing up and we are so happy to share your piece with our readers.

I’m delighted to have a piece on Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal in the latest issue of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social.

We hope you enjoy it! Indeed, it may feel a little premature for Autumn, though we are beginning to feel that Autumnal 'back to school' feeling now that September has hit and the leaves are turning brown! Happy reading from all of us here at SF.

A fantastic piece on print publishing, featuring words from our very own founder Gail Pirkis!

Thank you for sharing! This extract is taken from Richard Smyth’s piece on Richard Bell’s Britain in Slightly Foxed Issue 86. Click the link below to view this issue of the quarterly: foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightl...

OUT NOW! Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark ⁠ Listen here: foxedquarterly.com/the-slightly-foxed-podcast-all-episodes #podcast #murielspark #bookish

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: foxedquarterly.com/shop/set-bb-... #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.

When 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. +

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❣️ @nigelslater.bsky.social @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social

'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.'

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...

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

The essay I wrote for @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social about Graham Swift's extraordinary Waterland, is in the latest edition, in some gobsmacking company.

Ooh! Treats! What a lovely edition. Thank you. @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social @nigelslater.bsky.social

‘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: [email protected]

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: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... foxedquarterly.com/dervla-murph...

‘I don’t think Slightly Foxed has ever published a #book which is not both beautiful and interesting’ Jane McMorland Hunter, Hatchards Piccadilly ⁠ Click the link to view our available Slightly Foxed Editions. Buy any four and save £1 per edition. foxedquarterly.com/products/slightly-foxed-editions

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.