Slightly Foxed

‘The magazine is rather like that voice you always hope to hear behind you in old bookshops which, when you finger a volume . . . would pipe up and say: “Ah, now that's an interesting one”.’ Independent OUT NOW: Slightly Foxed Issue 91, Autumn 2026 🦊🍂 foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightl...

Here's a terrific episode of the @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social podcast on Rosemary Sutcliff and the Magic of Childhood Reading, with the utterly wonderful Rebeka Russell of @manderleypress.bsky.social. Enjoy! foxedquarterly.com/rosemary-sut...

Hudson Versus The Volcano. I wrote about WH Hudson's Birds In London for the latest @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social Quarterly.

@slightlyfoxed.bsky.social, the real reader's quarterly, was founded in 2004. Today, we're taking you back to that very first issue... 🦊 Read the magazine here: https://loom.ly/okCfxqE

Indeed, the seasons change all too quickly! It always brings to mind that Dr Seuss quote: 'How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn.' We hope issue 91 brings some cheer during the cooler months ahead!🦊

Wonderful to see this! The most perfect comfort reads. We hope you enjoy revisiting the world of BB and thank you for sharing. 🦊

Excellent! We hope you enjoy. 🦊

Last month, the we had the pleasure of heading up to Yorkshire to visit the lovely team at Smith Settle, who print and bind Slightly Foxed (editions and quarterly). It was a wonderful afternoon. We hope you enjoy this behind the scenes video from our trip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFoS...

I’m re-reading Blue Remembered Hills - the memoirs of Rosemary Sutcliff - aptly covered in cornflower cloth and gorgeously published by @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social. A perfect tonic for our times - an utterly compelling autobiography. What should I read next? #booksky

Many thanks to @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social for reissuing Les Girls last year with an introduction by yours truly.

🎧OUT NOW!🎧 The Slightly Foxed Podcast Episode 58 | The Other Mitford Girl foxedquarterly.com/the-slightly... #Mitford #Podcast #SlightlyFoxed

Our resident robin approves.... @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social

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...

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...

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...

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!

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.

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