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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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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.

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November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
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
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. ⁠

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

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. ⁠
May 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
‘There is May in books forever;⁠
May will part from Spenser never;⁠
May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior,⁠
May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer . . .’

From ‘May and the Poets’ by James Henry Leigh Hunt⁠

Pictured: the wonderful Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden, opened to the page of May⁠
May 21, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Slightly Foxed is coming to #Cambridge!⁠

Join us to celebrate our summer publications at St. Boltoph's Church on Thursday 29 May, 2025, 6:30-8pm.⁠

Please come and browse the new stock, enjoy a glass of wine and share some literary news and views.⁠

RSVP: isabel@foxedquarterly.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
‘I don’t think Slightly Foxed has ever published a #book which is not both beautiful and interesting’ Jane McMorland Hunter, Hatchards Piccadilly

Click the link to view our available Slightly Foxed Editions. Buy any four and save £1 per edition.

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April 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In our recent podcast episode, the SF team sit down with William Golding's daughter Judy and Professor Tim Kendall @timkendall70.bsky.social to discuss this brilliant #writer. Listen via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

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April 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
‘Do you treasure ancient paperbacks, spines gone, pages browning, brittle & crumbling . . .?’

Liz Robinson asks the crucial questions in the very first issue of #SlightlyFoxed from Spring, 2004.

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#Bibliophile #Reading #Literature
March 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Win a place on the REST + READ Reading Retreat in Wales (worth £850) 6-8th June 2025⁠ 🌊📚️ ⁠

We're running a really exciting #giveaway over on #Instagram. Make sure to check it out!

@thelitedit.bsky.social @easeretreats.bsky.social

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March 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We were delighted to see Slightly Foxed mentioned in Christen Pears's #WorldBookDay takeover of the #NavyGrey newsletter, 'clippings'.

Click the link below to peruse her bookish suggestions:

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March 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🌷Presents for Mothering Sunday and other occasions🌷

Browse books and bundles below:

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#mothersday #gifts #giftideas
March 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
‘What were the #stories you loved as a child, the ones you couldn’t bear to finish because they were so good? Track them down. Read them again.’ Ken Haigh SF Issue 53

View our series of Slightly Foxed Cubs for younger bookworms here:

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March 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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 🦊💕📚

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February 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
'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
February 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Diary of a Provincial Lady (No. 69) - E. M. Delafield 📖🖋️

‘Within seconds of starting to #read, you’ll be there with her, in the under-heated marital home far from any city, on a chilly 7 November 1929 . . .’ - Ysenda Maxtone Graham

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February 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Each issue of Slightly Foxed  offers 96 pages of lively personal recommendations for books of lasting interest. It's more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine . . .

📷 - Issue 84, Winter 2024/5

View the current issue:

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February 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Introducing the forthcoming Slightly Foxed Editions No. 70:

Nigel Nicolson | PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE

An account of the marriage between Vita Sackville-West and Nigel Nicolson from the perspective of their son.

From £18 | Worldwide shipping

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February 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM