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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

Opening page of my essay on WH Hudson's Birds Of London, headed Song Of The City.

Monochrome drawing of WH Hudson among the gulls of St James's Park.

Front cover of Slightly Foxed, No. 19, Autumn 2026, featuring a painting of a fox hiding from some hounds in the middle of a hedge maze.

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘the nature of memory became ever more fascinating: the way it keeps certain moments vividly frozen while obliterating others, the way in which it endlessly reshapes the palimpsest that is our life story.’ Venda Goldsworthy in the latest @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social

Text says noticing the gaps in Vladimir's account. Turgenev's depiction of the nature of memory became ever more fascinating: the way it keeps certain moments vividly frozen while obliterating others, the way in which it endlessly reshapes the palimpsest that is our life story.
'You could omit anything if you knew that you omitted, and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood, Hemingway wrote. It is a lesson he might have learned while boxing with Turgenev.
VESNA GOLDSWORTHY'S novel Iron Curtain was one of the New Yorker Best Books of 2023.

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Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@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: loom.ly/okCfxqE

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘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...

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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!🦊

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Excellent! We hope you enjoy. 🦊

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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...

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Slightly Foxed & Smith Settle | R. C. Sherriff, No Leading Lady in two limited-edition volumes

YouTube video by Slightly Foxed

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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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

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Sue Beesley @suebeesley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There is a nice appreciation of Moby Dick by Chris Saunders in the latest edition of Slightly Foxed magazine @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social – not just the novel, but the illustrations by Rockwell Ken

Black and white engraving of the bowsprit of a boat and the sea beyond, with the spinnaker sail billowing out half obscuring a full moon

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We lost our buoys to the storm, despite investing in heavier anchors and chains over the winter. We had trees down across access roads. Power went. I was well drenched before we opened to the public who (wisely) didn't come. But I came home to this, so, yeah, good day. @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social

The cover of issue 90 of Slightly Foxed, a blue door in a cottage wall.

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Henry James famously said that for him ‘summer afternoons’ are the two most beautiful words in the English language.’ from @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social No. 90 just received. Same sentiment as the quote post, 20 years/ 80 issues apart

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

OUT NOW! The Slightly Foxed Podcast Episode 57: Travels with Norman Lewis #podcast #bookish #travelwriter foxedquarterly.com/norman-lewis...

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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...

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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-...

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‘I’ve watched it 1000 times’ – Dick Francis’s son on Devon Loch’s Grand National collapse

Felix Francis, son of bestselling author Dick Francis, talks about the moment when Devon Loch collapsed under his father in the 1956 Grand National

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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...

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Slightly Foxed Issue 89

The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces . . .

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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...

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Marvellous Meals

There are four books in Sendak’s Nutshell Library: the cautionary tale Pierre, the ‘book of months’ Chicken Soup with Rice . . .

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Loved loved LOVED Dick Francis.

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kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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....

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British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe

Exclusive: Collection includes workbooks and index cards, and papers that show his research for bestseller Akenfield

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

How lovely to see such an impressive collection of Slightly Foxed Quarterlies!

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Episode 56 | The Thrilling World of Dick Francis 🎧 OUT NOW 🎧 foxedquarterly.com/dick-francis...

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

@ccmatters.bsky.social read and enjoyed (of course), I can turn my attention to @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social, also awaiting my return from warmer climes. Yes, that’s a blanket it is photographed against, a blanket I am sitting under as I settle in. I expect to be rewarded.

The cover of the winter 2025 Slightly Foxed quarterly. The red fox is running left to right through snow and past three representative fir-type trees.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 14/11/2025

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...

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Matthew Scott @mscottcumbria.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

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

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W. J. Davies @wjdavies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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...

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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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Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

💠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.

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

'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

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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

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Caro Arnett @carosbookcase.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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. ❤️

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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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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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.

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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

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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

‘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 · 04/09/2025

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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W. J. Davies @wjdavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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 · 28/08/2025

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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tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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 · 01/09/2025

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.

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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 · 01/09/2025

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.

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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 Issue 86

In this issue: Sarah Perry takes Seven Brief Lessons in Physics • Anthony Wells discovers there’s Room at the Top . . .

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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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 · 07/07/2025

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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