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Slightly Foxed is the beautifully produced magazine for people who love books. Worldwide shipping from London.

We also have an acclaimed list of memoirs, children's books, a popular literary podcast, and more. ‘The business of reading should please the hand and eye as well as the brain, and Slightly Foxed editions – books or quarterly – are elegant creations. Content follows form, offering new discoveries and old favourites to curious and discriminating readers.’ Hilary Mantel

02/01/2026

‘Just what is it that inspires someone to place an object within the pages of a book?

Kate Macdonald, an independent publisher, explains what prompted her. She has a much-loved copy of T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1974), a twelfth birthday present from her uncle and aunt.

In 1981, aged 17, Kate went to see Cats, the musical, and she stuck her ticket inside the book as a reminder of a memorable experience, her first visit to London by overnight bus from her home in Aberdeen.

One day, she says, when the time comes for her shelves to be emptied and their contents sent to second-hand bookshops, the ticket, still stuck there with yellowing tape, will be found by its next owner, who will no doubt be fascinated by the connection.’

– Sarah Lonsdale in Sligthly Foxed Issue 88

Pictured: The lovely Kipper of Tanyard Farmhouse settled down with some recent issues of Slightly Foxed 🐱📚️

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29/12/2025

‘And so, in those dull, slow days between Christmas and January, I made a New Year’s resolution – to read all Dickens’s novels by midnight on 31 December 2012 . . .

It seemed a daunting but not impossible task. Fifteen books (excluding Great Expectations) would mean one every twenty-four days. The shorter ones – Hard Times and A Christmas Carol – would take less than that, creating more time for the doorstops: Little Dorrit, Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend. The problem was that I wasn’t someone with time on my hands. I work twelve-hour days on the features desk of a national newspaper. Long evenings on the sofa with a good book are all too rare.

But gradually the novels became an obsession. Coming down with a bout of flu or a stomach upset was a blessing. ‘Hurrah!’ I’d think. ‘Forty-eight hours in bed to break the back of David Copperfield.’ I longed for trains to be held up and flights delayed so that I could press on with, say, the Venice section of Little Dorrit. Enough of prunes and prisms on the Rialto, I wanted Amy reunited with Mr Clennam in Bleeding Heart Yard.

Friends were amused, incredulous, indulgent and towards the end, I fear, bored. But during those early, chilly days of 2012, the whole idea seemed wonderfully possible.’

– Laura Freeman in Slightly Foxed issue 41.

Do you have any reading resolutions for 2026? Comment below. 📚️

28/12/2025

‘It’s hard to define what it is when you read a piece by somebody who’s a real writer, but you instantly know it . . .’

Slightly Foxed Editor Gail Pirkis talks to Jo Rodgers for TOAST magazine. Head to TOAST to read the full piece: Well-Loved Pages. Link in bio.

With huge thanks to for the lovely interview, to for the beautiful photographs and to Georgia for the feature. A glorious collaboration.

24/12/2025

24 December 1954

About a fortnight ago I was made aware that Christmas was near. Bits of nature seemed to have got into the shop windows; boughs with frost on them and rustic-work fences. Whenever I opened a newspaper or magazine I was told what I should give to her or she to me. Whole pages were devoted to advocating that I should put on a red robe and a white beard and present my wife with some large piece of domestic machinery.

Yet all this time I felt that somewhere Christmas still survived, if only I could get through all the flummery. I remembered true Christmases in my life: bells on one clear frosty morning travelling five miles over empty fields, and I thought of them as translucent waves of some quiet tide in the sky. I remembered a small tree lit with candles, and a church lit with candles; and the awed excitement of children, not only at stockings and presents, but at the atmosphere of the clear, short day – blue night with stars still at seven, then flooding sunlight and frost tinkling off the oaks; and then, the dinner eaten and the presents unwrapped, they looked up and the sky was orange-coloured and festive candles already giving light.

– Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Winter Notebook 🎄

23/12/2025

Greetings, dear readers. We are now out of office for the Christmas break until our return on 5 Jan 2026. All orders placed over this period will be dispatched in the New Year. We hope you all have a lovely festive period, filled with much cheer, feasting and, of course, reading. 📖🎄

22/12/2025

Dora and I tried to play Christmas carols on the piano, and the ‘Petersburg Sleigh Ride’ and the ‘Skaters’ Waltz’. And Uncle Franz began to talk about the rabbit-trading days to annoy Mother. He mimicked the sister telling tales on her brothers. My mother defended herself as best she could, but there was no defence possible against Uncle Franz. ‘You were a tell-tale-tit!’ he roared, and cried boisterously to my father, ‘Your wife was too grand for us by half, even as a child, Emil!’ My father smiled quietly over his spectacles, took a sip of wine and wiped his moustache, wholeheartedly enjoying the fact that my mother, for once, did not have the last word. That was the best Christmas present he could have. Her cheeks were flushed from the wine. ‘You were low, deceitful, lazy rascals!’ she cried furiously. Uncle Franz was delighted that he had succeeded so well in annoying her. ‘Well, maybe we were, Duchess,’ he replied, ‘but we have made good all the same.’ And he laughed so uproariously that the balls on the Christmas tree trembled and jingled. 🎄

– A snapshot of Christmas from When I was a Little Boy by Erich Kästner, a charming recollection of his childhood in Dresden.

When I was a Little Boy is available to buy as a numbered Slightly Foxed Edition. Link in bio. https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/erich-kastner-when-i-was-a-little-boy-emil-the-detectives/

20/12/2025

‘Marvellously decorated with characterful pen-and-ink drawings, Letters to Michael is testament to a bygone era when snow fell thick, real pennies were squirrelled in plum puddings and letter-writing sketched the true contours of a relationship.’ Telegraph Best Books of 2021

Letters to Michael presents a touching portrait of the relationship between a father and his son and captures a bygone age when people still wrote letters using pen and paper. Altogether, this charming book is an antidote to troubled times and would make a perfect present. ⁠🎄✉️
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19/12/2025

Season’s greetings from Slightly Foxed, where after a few frenzied weeks of Christmas chaos we are sending out final orders and tidying the office in preparation for the break.

We’d like to thank all of you who have placed an order over the festive period. We do hope that all gifts are well received.

We’ll be in the office as usual on Monday and Tuesday next week to process last minute orders and tie up any final strings. The office will then be closed from 5:30 on the 23 December 2025 until our return on 5 January 2026. All orders placed during this period will be sent in the new year. If you need an emergency gift card to tide you over, you can click here to download one of our plain printable gift cards. Your items will follow in the post.

We hope you all have a jolly festive season, with plenty of time for fireside reading between all the feasting and making merry.

18/12/2025

Clouded with snow
The cold winds blow,
And shrill on leafless bough
The robin with its burning breast
Alone sings now.

The rayless sun,
Day's journey done,
Sheds its last ebbing light
On fields in leagues of beauty spread
Unearthly white.

Thick draws the dark,
And spark by spark,
The frost-fires kindle, and soon
Over that sea of frozen foam
Floats the white moon.

– Walter de la Mare

Angela Harding’s ‘Bringing Back the Tree’ donned the cover of Slightly Foxed Issue 36.

Angela Harding is a painter and printmaker based in Wing, Rutland. She derives her inspiration from the flora and fauna of the British countryside and her work is executed in lino and vinyl, combined with paper-cut stencil and water-based silkscreen printing.

16/12/2025

‘Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.’ – Edith Sitwell⁠
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These homely, seasonal designs by Ella Balaam are featured on our new Slightly Foxed Christmas cards. We hope they bring you some festive cheer today🦊🎄

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15/12/2025

‘The week before Christmas, when snow seemed to lie thickest, was the moment for carol-singing; and when I think back to those nights it is to the crunch of snow and to the lights of the lanterns on it. Carol-singing in my village was a special tithe for the boys, the girls had little to do with it. Like haymaking, blackberrying, stone-clearing and wishing-people-a-happy-Easter, it was one of our seasonal perks. ⁠
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By instinct we knew just when to begin it; a day too soon and we should have been unwelcome, a day too late and we should have received lean looks from people whose bounty was already exhausted. When the true moment came, exactly balanced, we recognized it and were ready . . .’⁠
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From Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee, which is available to buy as a Plain Foxed Edition. Beautifully illustrated by John Ward, Cider with Rosie is not just a rosy picture of a rural past, but a magical evocation of growing up in a lost world that rings emotionally true.🎄❄️

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12/12/2025

‘Thank you for providing such a friendly and efficient service. I think I’ve found the perfect place to buy all my Christmas presents!’ A. Twist, UK🎄🎁

Greetings from Hoxton Square, where we’ve been busy wrapping, packing, stamping and sending parcels out of Foxed HQ to a soundtrack of Christmas carols.

Please order as soon as possible to give us enough time to pack and post your goods out in time for Christmas or any other occasion before the end of the year. You can find a list of recommended last posting dates on our website: Last Posting Dates https://foxedquarterly.com/last-posting-dates-christmas/

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The Story of Slightly Foxed

Each quarter it offers 96 pages of lively personal recommendations for books of lasting interest – books, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry, that have stood the test of time and have left their mark on the people who write about them. It’s an eclectic mix, and our contributors are an eclectic bunch too. Some of them are names you’ll have heard of, some not, but all write thoughtfully and amusingly.

Some recent and coming attractions: Anthony Wells goes in search of Proust • Margaret Drabble sees Irelandthrough Trollope’s eyes • Maggie Fergusson meets Colin Thubron • Michael Holroyd enjoys the biography of an extraordinary biographer • Ann KennedySmith meets E. M. Forster’s great-aunt • Sue Gee is drawn by E. H. Shepard •Adam Foulds discovers England with Geoffrey Hill • Laura Freeman discovers the tragedy behind the work of A. A. Milne • Peter Parker enjoys a taste of life in Victorian Shoreditch • Brandon Robshaw introduces the real George Orwell •Ariane Bankes explores Trieste with Jan Morris, and much, much more . . .

Our readers enjoy the way Slightly Foxed opens up unexpected new horizons and they love the way it looks and feels – delightfully illustrated, printed on elegant cream paper, and just the right size to read in bed. They love our series of Slightly Foxed Editions and Cubs too – beautifully produced hardback reprints of classic memoirs and children’s books that have been allowed to slip out of print, each available from us in a limited cloth-bound edition of 2,000 copies. So whether you’re in search of stimulation, consolation or diversion, a treat for yourself or a present for a bookish friend or relative, you might do worse than take out a subscription to Slightly Foxed this year. If you do, you’ll be in excellent company.