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The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Nov 3
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:

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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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November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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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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 . . .
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 24d
Last year, I found an old love letter between the yellowing pages of a second hand book, and asked Bluesky whether you had found similar. I was inundated with responses (see 🧵 below)! My essay has just been published in @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social ! Thank you so much everyone who replied and helped
December 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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.
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Out now!

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November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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'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
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
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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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
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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. ❤️
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
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November 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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.
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Thank you for sharing this piece!
October 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Calling East Anglia dwellers and Adrian Bell fans for this exciting forthcoming event in Halesworth!
atthefieldsedge.bsky.social Richard Hawking @atthefieldsedge.bsky.social · Oct 4
If you are in the area, I'll be giving a talk on Adrian Bell's seasonal quartet of his Countryman's Notebooks (published by @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social) at The Cut in Halesworth as part of the The Horkey - a one day festival celebrating the end of harvest time.
October 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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‘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
September 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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.
September 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Sound advice from the cleric Sydney Smith, courtesy of Stephen Bayley in this quarter’s Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social.
August 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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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...
The cover of the current issue of Slightly Foxed, tinted for no reason I can gather. The original is tan.
August 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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
text says: 10th. Make no secret of your low spirits to your friends, but talk of them freely - they are always worse for dignified concealment. 9th. Attend to the effects tea and coffee produce upon you. 10th. Compare your lot with that of other people. 11th. Don't expect too much from human life - a sorry business at the best.12th. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy, sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion, not ending in active benevolence. 13th. Do good, and endeavour to please everybody of every degree. 14th. Be as much as you can in the open air without fatigue.' Sydney Smith quoted by Stephen Bayley in 'Taking the Short View' in the latest Slightly Foxed - Autumn 2025
August 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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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.
akennedysmith.bsky.social Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social · Aug 27
Autumn's around the corner, and among the fallen leaves here's the new Slightly Foxed magazine with my piece on Lucy M. Boston's charming memoir, Memory in a House (1973) @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I’m delighted to have a piece on Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal in the latest issue of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social.
August 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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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.
tomslists.bsky.social tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · Aug 26
It’s always a good day when @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social arrives. But surely it’s a long time until autumn is due?
Slightly Foxed magazine the title in blue on a cream paper cover, inset with a painting of an interesting sky of complementary blue ms, greys, and yellows
September 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A fantastic piece on print publishing, featuring words from our very own founder Gail Pirkis!
August 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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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:

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August 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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OUT NOW!

Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark ⁠

Listen here:

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#podcast #murielspark #bookish
July 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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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:

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#ChristeningPresents
July 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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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. ⁠
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It was a pleasure to meet so many lovely people. ⁠We hope you had a lovely afternoon and enjoyed the talk!⁠
June 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM