Slightly Foxed

Slightly Foxed 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

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 91, Rebecca Campbell, ‘I See Yew’ 🎨Rebecca Campbell lives and works in London. She tr...
18/09/2026

Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 91, Rebecca Campbell, ‘I See Yew’ 🎨

Rebecca Campbell lives and works in London. She trained as an illustrator and this has led to her unique narrative style of work.

Her paintings have been described as ‘delightful, enigmatic and highly imaginative . . . Rebecca’s world is one of variety, eccentricity and joy.’ She grew up in the Irish countryside with a menagerie of animals and birds, and has since travelled extensively.

We are delighted to feature ‘I See Yew’ on the cover of our latest issue of Slightly Foxed. We hope you love it as much as we do!🦊

https://foxedquarterly.com/cover-artist-slightly-foxed-issue-91-rebecca-campbell-i-see-yew/

‘There is no doubt MM is a huge star. Everyone is simply hypnotized when she appears, including me. Everything revolves ...
15/09/2026

‘There is no doubt MM is a huge star. Everyone is simply hypnotized when she appears, including me. Everything revolves around her, whether she likes it or not . . .’ – Colin Clark, The Prince, The Showgirl and Me⁠
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The Prince, The Showgirl and Me follows Colin Clark’s diary during his time working on the film set of The Prince and the Showgirl as a ‘gofer’, alongside Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe.⁠
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Clark is in a brilliant fly-on-the-wall position: he knows Olivier personally as a family friend but is junior enough that his presence is barely noticed when crises erupt and important decisions are being made. ⁠
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The Prince and the Showgirl did eventually get made and sank without trace. Some years later Colin Clark met Billy Wilder, director of Some Like It Hot, at a party and mentioned that he too had worked with Marilyn Monroe. ‘Then you know the meaning of pure pain,’ Wilder growled. Colin’s hilarious account of it, however, is pure pleasure.⁠
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The Prince, The Showgirl and Me is available as a hand-numbered Slightly Foxed Edition in a brilliant shade of pink 🎬️🩷

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‘Avoid clichés like the plague.’⁠⁠‘What’s another word for thesaurus?’⁠⁠‘There are two rules about stand-up comedy. The ...
11/09/2026

‘Avoid clichés like the plague.’⁠
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‘What’s another word for thesaurus?’⁠
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‘There are two rules about stand-up comedy. The first is always leave them wanting more . . .’⁠
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An Englishman’s Commonplace Book comprises of a compilation of arresting facts, vivid descriptions, absurd observations and wise words collected by Roger Hudson over 40 years.⁠
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It is a wide-ranging collection by a well-read man with a sharp eye, an ironic – indeed very English – sense of humour and a devotion to history. Sir Christopher Wren rubs shoulders with Eddie Izzard, Princess Margaret with Elizabeth I. And all organized under subject headings to help find that appropriate quote. It may even inspire you to start a commonplace book of your own! 📖🖋️

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‘Persons attempting to find a “text” in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a “subtext” in it will ...
09/09/2026

‘Persons attempting to find a “text” in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a “subtext” in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyse, deconstruct, or otherwise “understand” it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers.⁠’⁠
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– Richard Platt quoting the wonderful late Wendell Berry in Slightly Foxed issue 14. 🦊📚️⁠
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Wendell Berry – author, farmer, teacher and philosopher – spent much of his life in rural Kentucky, where he famously rejected the pull of modern technology and remained fiercely committed to his agrarian values. ⁠
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Last week, we heard of his death at the age of 92, and found ourselves returning to his work.⁠
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We have made Richard Platt’s article available for everyone to read on our website. Please click the link below to find out more:

https://foxedquarterly.com/wendell-berry-jayber-crow-literary-review/

September blow soft, till the fruit’s in the loft 🍂📷️ Edith Holden’s The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, photographe...
07/09/2026

September blow soft, till the fruit’s in the loft 🍂

📷️ Edith Holden’s The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, photographed here amongst a selection of Slightly Foxed books and issues.⁠

Please head over to the link in our bio to browse our new readers catalogue for all your bookish desires this autumn!🦊

https://foxedquarterly.com/readers-catalogue/all-books

‘It is a bookshop that – I hope – you can lose yourself in for hours, and discover books that will open up whole new wor...
04/09/2026

‘It is a bookshop that – I hope – you can lose yourself in for hours, and discover books that will open up whole new worlds.’ 📚️⁠
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Autumn Bookshop of the Quarter 2026 | Topping & Company, York
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We were thrilled to hear that Topping & Company had opened a new bookshop in York, after many years of browsing the shelves in their Bath, Edinburgh, Ely and St Andrews branches. Managers Duncan and Saskia were kind enough to share the joys of bookselling and their favourite reads amidst an inevitably busy summer in York, just a few months after opening. This magnificent space is already abuzz with bookish discussions and exciting events, a new literary hub that we can’t wait to visit in person soon.⁠
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https://foxedquarterly.com/autumn-bookshop-of-the-quarter-2026-topping-company-york/

‘It’s nice to know that when I can only afford to travel in the mind’s eye, Slightly Foxed is my surest portal.’– S. Hol...
03/09/2026

‘It’s nice to know that when I can only afford to travel in the mind’s eye, Slightly Foxed is my surest portal.’– S. Holen, USA 🦊📚️💫⁠
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The delectable, collectable magazine for booklovers | Introducing Slightly Foxed Issue 91⁠, Autumn 2026⁠ ⁠🍂⁠
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We are delighted to report that the autumn issue, featuring a fantastic cover by Rebecca Campbell is out now! We hope you enjoy settling down with it as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together.⁠
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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.⁠
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In this issue:⁠
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Guy Stagg meets some imperfect priests • Kathryn Hughes does a ward round with Monica Dickens • C. J. Schüler visits N**i Germany After Midnight • Raffaella Barker is spellbound by The Transylvanian Trilogy • David Profumo goes fishing with Negley Farson • Frances Donnelly meets ‘the man who saved England’ • Richard Smyth listens to the birds of Victorian London • Vesna Goldsworthy rereads Turgenev • Michael Barber pumps iron in the American South • Maggie Fergusson pays tribute to SOE’s lost agents, and much more besides . . .⁠
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Single issues form £16 | Subscriptions from £64 | Worldwide shipping⁠
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‘John Betjeman used to say that he had never laughed so much as during the year in which he was the cricket master at a ...
02/09/2026

‘John Betjeman used to say that he had never laughed so much as during the year in which he was the cricket master at a small private school,’ writes A. N. Wilson in his introduction to this story of another small private school, St Philip’s, founded in 1934 by Catholic convert Richard Tibbits, and still going strong today.

Like many of the best books, Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School by Ysenda Maxtone Graham is not easily classifiable. But for anyone who has enjoyed Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, or Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s, anyone who loves to laugh yet feels the poignancy of the passage of time, this book will be a treat.

https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/ysenda-maxtone-graham-mr-tibbitss-catholic-school-plain-foxed-edition/

‘There is a serious theme at the heart of all Dunnett’s romping and wrestling. She explores, with a grown-up and unroman...
28/08/2026

‘There is a serious theme at the heart of all Dunnett’s romping and wrestling. She explores, with a grown-up and unromantic interest, the arts of leadership, something that recent experience suggests we might benefit from thinking more about.’⁠
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– Niall Allsopp on Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant series The Lymond Chronicles in Slightly Foxed Issue 81.⁠
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Each issue of Slightly Foxed offers 96 pages of lively personal recommendations for books of lasting interest – books, including fiction and non-fiction, that have stood the test of time and have left their mark on the people who write about them.

https://foxedquarterly.com/niall-allsopp-dorothy-dunnett-literary-review/

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