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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. foxedquarterly.com

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Feb 25

We’re here! We thought we’d join the #bookish community here on #Bluesky.

Follow us to open up a whole world of good #reading, beautifully produced #magazines and limited edition #books, literary recommendations and other news from Slightly Foxed 🦊💕📚

Find out more: foxedquarterly.com

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 12d

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José de María Romero Barea @jdmromerobarea.bsky.social · 16d

“#Septiembre ha sembrado todo #Londres de besos recordados” #LouisMacNeice #DiarioDeOtoño @faberbooks.bsky.social @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social Mi #artículo @zendalibros.bsky.social #FelizSemana @aidabsanchez.bsky.social @hmeoro.bsky.social #BienvenidoOtoño romerobarea.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/l...

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 12d

Calling East Anglia dwellers and Adrian Bell fans for this exciting forthcoming event in Halesworth!

Richard Hawking @atthefieldsedge.bsky.social · 17d

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.

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · Sep 12

‘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

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aecnyc.bsky.social @aecnyc.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's a conundrum we face every quarter too! Hope you enjoyed the latest issue. 🦊📖

Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you for sharing this snippet from our latest issue! We hope you enjoyed the rest of SF 87.

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W. J. Davies @wjdavies.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · Aug 28

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.

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Sep 1

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Sep 1

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.

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

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Sep 1

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.

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

Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

Wang Sum Luk @ws-luk.bsky.social · Aug 14

‘As long as we’re open we’re selling books.’

Read about the people keeping print publishing alive in my latest LOST ART article, featuring insights from @faberbooks.bsky.social, @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social, @sevenoaksbookshop.bsky.social, and so many more!

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www.lost-art.media/thought/rebe...

Rebel Yell! Are You Joining the Reader’s Resistance? — LOST ART

‘People are constantly returning to what’s handmade and hand-drawn. There’s an almost religious shame about being online all the time, and that sells books—I literally sell books about that...’

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you so much for sharing! We're delighted to hear that you enjoyed it.

Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Jul 15

OUT NOW!

Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark ⁠

Listen here:

foxedquarterly.com/the-slightly-foxed-podcast-all-episodes

#podcast #murielspark #bookish

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · Jun 23

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!⁠

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · Jun 7

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.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Jun 6

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. +

Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · Jun 6

On this D-Day anniversary, as well as the brave soldiers, remember the nurses who followed after, patching them up to the boom of gunfire. My review of the most touching, and shattering memoir of an army nurse you will ever read
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

Ileostomies and colostomies under the boom of gunfire

In the days following June 6, 1944, hard on the heels of the tanks and artillery, came the doctors, orderlies and nurses of the Casualty Clearing

www.the-tls.co.uk

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · May 30

Yesterday we had the great pleasure of teaming up with Bodies in the Bookshop to launch the Slightly Foxed summer publications. ⁠
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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. ⁠

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Robin Aldan @robinaldan.bsky.social · May 28

It arrived❣️
@nigelslater.bsky.social
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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · May 28

'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.'

How the World Works by Sarah Perry in Slightly Foxed Magazine Summer 2025

Text says: Though generally immune to celebrity, I found myself reduced briefly to a stammering girl as I attempted to explain what his writing had done for my mind and my spirits. It had inspired me, I said, to attempt to teach myself A-level physics, but that had been a hopeless case: I was more or less innumerate, and the maths was perpetually beyond my grasp. With the generosity so evident in the Seven Brief Lessons, 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, in that case, 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. There, he wrote, 'shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.

Sarah Perry Is the author of novels including Melmoth and The Essex Serpent. Her latest novel, Enlightenment, published in 2024, is about love, faith and physics.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · May 27

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...

Toast (No. 71)

Nigel Slater, OBE, is perhaps Britain’s most treasured food writer, loved by cooks the nation over for his comfortingly do-able recipes . . .

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