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The Scottish nature writer Jim Crumley takes the Slightly Foxed team on a tour of literary landscapes, from the lochs of the Trossachs and the mountainous Cairngorms to Aldo Leopold’s sand county in Wisconsin and Barry Lopez’s Arctic. Together they trace the chain of writers who have influenced Jim, from Robert Burns and Wordsworth to Thoreau and Walt Whitman, and see nature through the eyes of his hero, the great Scottish naturalist and photographer Seton Gordon. They discuss how folklore has demonized the wolf while Jim believes its reintroduction could hugely benefit the ecology of the Scottish landscape. And finally they venture off the beaten track with this month’s wide-ranging reading recommendations. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 40 minutes; 24 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.  An Englishman’s Commonplace Book, Roger Hudson (1:14) A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time, Richard Kennedy (6:40)  Jim Crumley’s Seasonal Quartet: The Nature of Autumn, The Nature of Winter, The Nature of Spring, The Nature of Summer (11:03) The Cairngorm Hills of Scotland, The Charm of Skye and Amid Snowy Wastes, Seton Gordon are out print, but some Seton Gordon titles are available from Trieste Publishing (14:11) A High and Lonely Place, Jim Crumley (15:49) A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold (18:14) Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez (18:43) The Last Wolf, Jim Crumley (22:54) Highland River, Neil Gunn is currently out of stock at the publisher (31:07) Featherhood, Charlie Gilmour (33:28) The Silver Dark Sea, Susan Fletcher (35:13) A Month in Siena, Hisham Matar (36:12) The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley (38:00) Related Slightly Foxed Articles Word from the Wood, Galen O’Hanlon on A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold, Issue 54 (18:14) Northern Lights, Penelope Lively on Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez, Issue 4 (18:43) Other Links An Englishmans’ Commonplace Book ‘launch party’ at John Sandoe Books (1:19)  The Art Workers’ Guild (1:54)  Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (8:37)  Saraband, independent publisher (12:20)  Jim Crumley, The Scots Magazine (31:56) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Dr Felicity James, author of Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s and current custodian of Charles’s writing chair, introduces the Slightly Foxed editors to siblings at the heart of a literary circle. In their Tales from Shakespeare, gentle-hearted drunken-dog Charles wrote the tragedies and Mary, often chided for laughing, the comedies, and together they penned letters using different coloured inks. From a murder in the home and time in private asylums to conversations with Coleridge at the pub, dissertations on roast pig and salons in their London lodgings, we explore the lives of the Lambs and their friendships through books. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 43 minutes; 43 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information.  An Englishman’s Commonplace Book, Roger Hudson (2:03) Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s, Felicity James is out of print (2:44) There have been two editions of the Lambs’ letters: The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb, ed. Edwin W. Marrs, Jr., 3 vols. [which go up to 1817], Cornell University Press, 1975, and The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas, 3 vols., Dent, 1935. Sadly neither is still in print. Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb (14:33) Mrs Leicester’s School and Poetry for Children, Charles and Mary Lamb are out of print (14:44) Essays of Elia, Charles Lamb is out of print (16:46) A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb, Sarah Burton is out of print The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel (39:12) Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss (41:00) Related Slightly Foxed Articles Streets, Streets, Streets, Felicity James on the letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, Issue 65 A Delight in Digression, David Spiller on Essays of Elia, Issue 64 (16:46) Other Links The Charles Lamb Society (36:28)  Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

The food writer and chef Olivia Potts joins the Slightly Foxed editors for a literary banquet. Olivia was a barrister for five years before enrolling at Le Cordon Bleu, becoming a cookery columnist on The Spectator and writing A Half Baked Idea, a memoir with recipes. From finding consolation in cooking and precision in pâtisserie to nostalgia-soaked blancmange and family dinners in the Cazalet Chronicles, the conversation flows, welcoming Jane Grigson, Elizabeth David, Charles Dickens and the extraordinary Fanny Cradock to the table along the way. And in this month’s taste from the magazine’s archives, Rachel Khoo’s cookbook conjures up feasts in an attic in Paris. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 43 minutes; 21 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. . Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. - Frontier Wolf and The Lantern Bearers, Rosemary Sutcliff: Slightly Foxed Cubs (0.50) - Hons and Rebels, Jessica Mitford: Slightly Foxed Edition No. 52 (0.53) - An Englishman’s Commonplace Book, Roger Hudson (1.00) - A Half Baked Idea, Olivia Potts (15:40) - The Little Library Cookbook, The Little Library Year and The Little Library Christmas, Kate Young (21.08) - The Cazelet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard (22.33) - Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee: Slightly Foxed Edition No. 53 (23:33) - Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant (24:18) - Jumping the Queue, Mary Wesley is out of print (25:04) - The Little Paris Kitchen, Rachel Khoo (28:53) - The Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith (35:41) - Good Things to Eat, Lucas Hollweg is out of print (37:53) - The Pedant in the Kitchen, Julian Barnes (39.17) - The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (39:35) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - Haikus among the Pears, Olivia Potts on Jane Grigson’s Fruit Book, Issue 62 - Cooking with a Poet, Sue Gee on Paul Roche, Cooking with a Poet, Issue 8 (1:43) - The Fanny Factor, Laurie Graham on Fanny Cradock, Coping with Christmas, Issue 64 (1:47) - Attics with Attitude, Elisabeth Russell Taylor on Rachel Khoo, The Little Paris Kitchen, Issue 36 (28:53) - At Home with the Pewters, Antony Wood on George & Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody, Issue 32 (37:17) Other Links - Olivia Potts: www.ahalfbakedidea.co.uk - Olivia Potts’s The Vintage Chef column in Spectator Life (12.50) - FEAST catering by Olivia Potts and Kate Young (21:01) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Additional music: French Waltz by Sam Bikov from the album Dance the Night Away via www.freemusicarchive.org The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Small but discerning, choosing passion over fashion, Little Toller Books shares an independent spirit with Slightly Foxed. Jon Woolcott joins us from this publishing house based in a converted old dairy in Dorset, and charts the rise from cottage industry origins to a wide, prized backlist. With roots in rural writing, Little Toller has branched out to seek unusual voices, resurrecting the life of the wood engraver Clifford Webb, turning landfill into prose, uncovering Edward Thomas’s hidden photographs and finding a bestseller in the diary of a young naturalist along the way. We turn to the magazine’s archives for John Seymour’s advice on cheddaring, sparging and gaffing, and there’s the usual round-up of recommended reading from off the beaten track. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 37 minutes; 45 seconds) Books Mentioned - Four Hedges, Claire Leighton. Available from the end of August 2020 (2:44) - Men and the Fields, Adrian Bell (2:48) - The Unofficial Countryside, Richard Mabey (4:30) - In Pursuit of Spring, Edward Thomas (4:56) - Diary of a Young Naturalist, Dara McAnulty (7:27) - The Life and Art of Clifford Webb, Simon Brett (12:52) - The Fat of the Land and The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency, John Seymour (15:23) - Landfill, Tim Dee (17:51) - Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School, Ysenda Maxtone Graham (19:35) - Stand by Me, Wendell Berry (30:35) - Here We Are, Graham Swift (33:13) - Anton Chekhov’s short stories (35:00) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - These Fragments, Jon Woolcott on John Harris, No Voice from the Hall in Issue 66 (6:34) - Cheddaring, Sparging and Gaffing, Rowena Macdonald on John Seymour, The Fat of the Land and Self-Sufficiency in Issue 26 (22:50) Other Links - Little Toller Books - Blue Moose Books (10:05) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Justin Marozzi, a travel writer, historian and journalist who’s lived in Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Darfur, joins the Slightly Foxed editors on a journey through North Africa and the Middle East. His discovery of a nineteenth-century account of an expedition to Libya in a bookshop in Tripoli led to his crossing of the Sahara by camel, against the advice of Wilfred Thesiger. From dual chronicles of the desert penned by Rosita Forbes and Ahmed Hassanein Bey and tales of books hurled into the Tigris to the picaresque life of Ibn Battutah and travels with a Tangerine, the conversation ranges far and wide, and there are the usual recommendations for reading off the beaten track too. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 40 minutes; 22 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. - South from Barbary, Justin Marozzi (3:09) - The Secret of the Sahara, Rosita Forbes is out of print (7:08) - The Lost Oases, Ahmed Hassanein Bey is out of print (7:46) - The Travels of Ibn Battutah, ed. Tim Mackintosh-Smith (11:57) - Travels with a Tangerine, The Hall of a Thousand Columns and Landfalls, Tim Mackintosh-Smith  (12:03) - Arabs, Tim Mackintosh-Smith (12:26)  - Tamerlane, Justin Marozzi (14:20) - Warriors, Gerald Hanley (15:43) - Islamic Empires, Justin Marozzi (20:11) - Kim, Rudyard Kipling (25:40) - The Great Game, Peter Hopkirk (33:37) - Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tessant (36:09) - The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf (37:15) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - Not Your Average Englishwoman, Justin Marozzi on Rosita Forbes, The Secret of the Sahara in Issue 62 (7:08) - An Irishman in Somalia, Justin Marozzi on Gerald Hanley, Warriors (15:43) - Small Player in the Great Game, Amanda Theunissen on Rudyard Kipling, Kim in Issue 57 (25:40) - Confessions of a TV Tie-in, Tim Mackintosh Smith on Ibn Battutah, The Travels of Ibn Battutah in Issue 18 (11:57) Other Links - Justin Marozzi: www.justinmarozzi.com Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Slightly Foxed Editors Gail and Hazel take us between the pages of the magazine, bookmarking articles along the way. Crack the spine of the quarterly to discover T. H. White taking flying lessons, smutty book titles, a passion for romantic ruins, John Berger shadowing a remarkable GP, a rebellious Mitford ‘rescued’ by a destroyer, a night to remember on the Titanic and much more besides. From correcting proofs to welcoming writers with a host of experiences, the story of putting together an issue of enthusiasms unfolds. And in this month’s reading from the archives, a hapless apprentice at the Hogarth Press recounts his disastrous stint with the Woolfs. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 36 minutes; 33 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. - Slightly Foxed Issue 66 - Basil Street Blues, Michael Holroyd: Slightly Foxed Edition No. 29 (6:00) - England Have My Bones, T. H. White is out of print (6:47) - Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz (11:04) - The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb is out of print (13:04) - No Voice from the Hall, John Harris is out of print (14:33) - The Family from One End Street, Eve Garnett (15:15) - A Taste of Paris, Theodora FitzGibbon is out of print (15:33) - A Fortunate Man, John Berger (19:38) - Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman novels: Slightly Foxed Cubs (21:15) - Hons and Rebels, Jessica Mitford: Slightly Foxed Edition No. 52, published 1 September 2020 (21:53) - A Night to Remember, Walter Lord (23:50) - A Boy at the Hogarth Press, Richard Kennedy: Plain Foxed Edition (24:55) - House of Glass, Hadley Freeman (31:47) - All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr (34:00) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - Underwater Heaven, Margaret Drabble on Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies in Issue 66 (5:45) - Harvey Learns the Ropes, Andrew Joynes on Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous in Issue 56 (6:24) - On the Shoulders of Giants, Andrew Joynes on T. H. White, England Have My Bones in Issue 66 (6:30) - Sarah Crowden on smut: Something for the Weekend in Issue 32 and All in the Mind? in Issue 44 (7:57) - Unsung Heroes, Alastair Glegg on learning to read at prep school in Issue 60 (9:59) - Dog’s-eye View, Rebecca Willis on Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog in Issue 65 (11:04) - In Praise of Pratchett, Amanda Theunissen on Terry Pratchett, Small Gods in Issue 33 (11:33) - Streets, Streets, Streets, Felicity James on the letters of Charles and Mary Lamb in Issue 65 (13:06) - These Fragments, Jon Woolcott on John Harris, No Voice from the Hall in Issue 66 (14:33) - Keeping up Appearances, Kate Tyte on Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street in Issue 66 (15:15) - Simply Delicious, Clive Unger-Hamilton on Theodora FitzGibbon, A Taste of Paris in Issue 66 (15:33) - An Early-Flowering Climber, Ursula Buchan on the plant-hunting and garden writings of Reginald Farrer in Issue 66 (16:01) - A Well-tempered Gardener, Michael Leapman on the garden writings of Christopher Lloyd in Issue 59 (17:00) - Putting up Useful Shelves, Sue Gee on Richard Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press in Issue 20 (24:55) Other Links - Slightly Foxed Editors’ Diary (0:28) - Sign up to the free Slightly Foxed email newsletter here  - Slightly Foxed articles by Christopher Rush (12:46) - Little Toller Books (14:18) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Reading music: Dark Hallway, written and performed by Kevin MacLeod courtesy of incompetech.filmmusic.io The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Tim Pears, a writer rooted in the landscape of Devon, takes Slightly Foxed to the West Country. From working at his local library and reading an author a week instead of taking his A Levels to winning the Hawthornden Prize for his first novel, by way of spells as a farm labourer, nursing assistant and night porter, Tim Pears has written eleven novels, watched blacksmiths at work, walked the routes of his characters, balanced research with imagination and chronicled the past as a realist rather than a romantic. We also travel through the magazine’s archives, along the rivers Taw and Torridge, to uncover the man behind Tarka the Otter, and there are the usual recommendations for reading off the beaten track. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 41 minutes; 20 seconds) Books Mentioned Please note that while many of these titles by other publishers are available to buy from the Slightly Foxed shop, there may be delays in obtaining them from our distributor. We may also be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna for more information. Books by Tim Pears - In the Place of Fallen Leaves (5:18) - In the Light of Morning is out of print (13:22) - The West Country Trilogy: The Horseman, The Wanderers and The Redeemed (14:14) Other Books - Slightly Foxed Issue 66 (1:23) - Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia, Penelope Chetwode (1:29) - The Past Is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg: Plain Foxed Edition (1:50) - The Empress of Ireland, Christopher Robbins: Slightly Foxed Edition No. 51 (2:00) -Tarka the Otter, Henry Williamson (27:15) - Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan, Ivo Andrić (34:14) - Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner is out of print (36:14) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - Tarka the Rotter, Jonathan Law on Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter in Issue 35 (27:15) - Surprised by Joy, Jonathan Law on The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner in Issue 48 (36:14) Other Links - Sign up to the free Slightly Foxed email newsletter here to receive articles from the quarterly, extracts from books, latest releases, event invitations, news from behind the scenes at SF and other bookish content several times a month. View past newsletters - Tim Pears: A writer and his dog (25:21) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

The great prose stylist of the 20th century, monster, performer? Biographer and literary journalist Selina Hastings and writer and critic Alexander Waugh reveal the many reputations of Evelyn Waugh with the Slightly Foxed editors. From a pathological fear of boredom, hallucinations provoked by doses of bromide and cheques bouncing at the Ritz to his relationships conducted through letters, his genius for sharp satire and love of gossip, the conversation brings to light the darkness and humour of Waugh’s works. And we visit The Loved One’s Whispering Glades in this month’s reading from the magazine’s archives. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 45 minutes; 21 seconds) Books Mentioned Please note that while many titles by other publishers are available to buy from the Slightly Foxed shop, we will not be able to order them from our distributor and send them out to readers until the office reopens. We may be able to find second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna for more information. Books by Evelyn Waugh - The Sword of Honour trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender (3:14) - Put out More Flags is out of print (3:53) - Decline and Fall (11:48) - Scoop (18:44) - A Handful of Dust (21:50) - Brideshead Revisited (22:58) - The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is out of print (27:09) - The Loved One (32:35) Other Books - The Carey Novels by Ronald Welch, Slightly Foxed Cubs editions (1:46) - Evelyn Waugh: A Biography, Selina Hastings is out of print (2:40) - Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family, Alexander Waugh is out of print (2:47) - A Russian Journal, John Steinbeck with photographs by Robert Capa (40:37) - The Singapore Grip, J. G. Farrell (41:40) - Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography, Diana Price is out of print (42:27) - Zoo Station, David Downing is out of print (44:02) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - The Tortoise of Total War, Anthony Gardner on the Sword of Honour trilogy in Issue 36 (3:14) - Race of Ghosts, Patrick Denman Flanery on Put out More Flags in Issue 9 (3:53) - Portrait of the Artist in Middle Age, William Palmer on The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold in Issue 65 (27:09) - Waugh on the Warpath, Ranjit Bolt on The Loved One in Issue 46 (32:35) Other Links & Information - Sign up to the free Slightly Foxed email newsletter here to receive articles from the quarterly, extracts from books, latest releases, event invitations, news from behind the scenes at Foxed HQ and other bookish content several times a month. - The winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019: Jonathan Phillips for The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (1:23) - Alexander Waugh is the general editor of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh (43 volumes planned), bringing together all of the extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, poems, juvenilia, drawings and designs. Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Dame Margaret Drabble joins us at the Slightly Foxed table as we celebrate her life in writing. From taking up her pen in the 1960s as a young mother alone in her kitchen to feeling part of a movement with Nell Dunn, Margaret Forster and Edna O’Brien, to editing The Oxford Companion to English Literature without the help of a computer and eschewing the Booker Prize, Margaret Drabble sees writing as both an illness and a trade, finding black humour in ageing and joy in jigsaw puzzles along the way. And we uncover whatever happened to the elusive novelist Elizabeth Jenkins in this month’s reading from the magazine’s archives. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 44 minutes; 23 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Margaret Drabble Books Mentioned Out of print - A Summer Bird-Cage (5:41) - Arnold Bennett: A Biography (8:58) - Angus Wilson: A Biography (9:54) - The Oxford Companion to English Literature, (ed.) Fifth & Sixth editions (11:13) - The Radiant Way (15:20) - A Natural Curiosity (15:20) In print - The Millstone (14:10) - The Needle’s Eye (17:37) - The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws NB Published 7 May 2020 (21:35) - The Dark Flood Rises (36:48) Other Books - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Angus Wilson is out of print (10:28) - The Tortoise and the Hare and Harriet, Elizabeth Jenkins (28:17) - The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton (39:08) - The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich (40:26) - To War with Whitaker, Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly: Slightly Foxed Edition No. 50 (41:55) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - Whatever Happened to Elizabeth Jenkins?, Nigel Andrew on the novels of Elizabeth Jenkins in Issue 60 (28:17) - Joyce to the Life, Margaret Drabble on Richard Ellman, James Joyce in Issue 49 - Trollope’s Ireland, Margaret Drabble on the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope in Issue 59 Other Links - The winner of The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019: Jonathan Phillips for The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (1:00) - The Full Digital Archive of Slightly Foxed (26:23) - An Index to Slightly Foxed Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

Biographer and academic Jane Ridley and screenwriter and novelist Daisy Goodwin join the Slightly Foxed Editors to reveal the wealth to be found in royal biographies, memoirs and historical novels. From the remarkable diaries of Queen Victoria and the extraordinary life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria to Prince Albert’s cashmere breeches, a cottage meal at Sissinghurst with the Queen Mother, and Edward VII’s many mistresses, the parade of tales about the lives and loves of royal people roams far and wide. And we go on a on a quest for Queen Mary with James Pope-Hennessy in this month’s hunt through the magazine’s archives. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 38 minutes; 16 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. - Blue Remembered Hills, Rosemary Sutcliff. Plain Foxed Edition published 1 March 2020 (2:15)   - Browse and buy the shortlisted titles for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019 (2:50) - Victoria, Daisy Goodwin (4:10) - Bertie: A Life of Edward VII, Jane Ridley (4:27) - The historical novels of Jean Plaidy are out of print (16:39) - The Fortune Hunter, Daisy Goodwin (17:18) - Victoria (Penguin Monarchs series), Jane Ridley (22:49) - Queen Mary, James Pope-Hennessy (22:46) - The Quest for Queen Mary, James Pope-Hennessy, Ed. Hugo Vickers (31.02) - The Honjin Murders, Seishi Yokomizo (33:33) - Lady in Waiting, Anne Glenconner (34:24) - The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 & Volume Two 1979-2014, Ed. D. R. Thorpe (36:04) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - The Purple Moth, Jane Ridley on James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary in Issue 41 (25:13) Other Links - The Petersfield Bookshop (1:30) - The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (2:42) - Queen Victoria’s Journals (5:13) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Reading music: Nimrod from Enigma Variations by Elgar The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable