Slightly Foxed

Gail, Hazel, Anna and Donna Coonan of Virago Modern Classics gather round the table to talk about giving new life to forgotten voices, and Helen Bourne heads for the Pyramids with a young Priscilla Napier. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 33 minutes; 31 seconds) Books Mentioned • Slightly Foxed Issue 61 (2:02) • Priscilla Napier, A Late Beginner (4:41) • L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (12:00) • Noel Streatfeild’s Christmas Stories (12:47) • The Slightly Foxed Edition Gail refers to is Sword of Bone, Anthony Rhodes’s memoir of his experiences of WWII and being evacuated from Dunkirk (15:28) • Marjorie Hillis, Live Alone and Like It, is available through Little, Brown Book Group (16:00)(16:00) • Winifred Watson, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, is available from Persephone Books (18:40) • Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines (23:26) • Mary Hocking’s trilogy of titles, Good Daughters, Indifferent Heroes and Welcome Strangers, are out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second-hand copies. Please get in touch for details (29:03) • Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday (29:37) • Sigrid Nunez, The Friend (30:06) • Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow (30:48) Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations • Rowena Macdonald’s article on Philip Hensher’s Kitchen Venom was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 61 (2:18) • Extract from Priscilla Napier’s memoir, A Late Beginner, read by Helen Bourne (23:54) • Penelope Lively’s preface to A Late Beginner was also published as an article in Slightly Foxed Issue 21 Other Links • The second-hand bookshop in Canada is called Reasons to Live Books & Records. A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found on our website: Stockists (0:40) • The Slightly Foxed Subscribers’ Competition 2019 (3:20) • The Slightly Foxed Spring 2019 Readers’ Catalogue is available to view and download (3:46) • The Faber Stories series was launched as part of Faber’s 90th anniversary publishing programme (3:52) • Virago Modern Classics (6:31) • Virago Children’s Classics (11:35) • Persephone Books (18:27) • For subscriptions to Slightly Foxed magazine, and all our available publications, visit www.foxedquarterly.com (33:05) Music & Sound Effects Reading: introductory music Elgar’s Salut D’Amour by James Langevin. Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of www.freesound.org. Thanks to Diegolar for footsteps in the desert, to kyles for desert sounds with crickets and grb1029e for Egyptian Discovery. The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable.

Gail, Hazel and Jennie talk to the artist and illustrator (and master of pastiche) David Eccles about the craft of marrying image and text. The actress Petra Markham takes to the airwaves with Posy Simmonds, and the printmaker Angie Lewin recalls her experience of being commissioned for a Slightly Foxed cover. Books Mentioned Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler Richard Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time  Gwen Raverat, Period Piece E. H. Shepard, Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Christopher Matthew, Now We are Sixty, with decorations by David Eccles  The Slightly Foxed Cubs edition of The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff will be published in September 2019 Posy Simmond’s latest book, Cassandra Darke Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico is also known as Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, and is available in a single volume together with Mrs Harris Goes to New York.  Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare Mathias Enard, Compass Kathleen Hale’s autobiography, A Slender Reputation, is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second-hand copies. Please get in touch for details Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations A wood engraving by Hilary Paynter illustrates Adam Sisman’s article on The Last Days of Hitler in Slightly Foxed Issue 61 Slightly Foxed Issue 60 features the illustration ‘Office Life’ by Posy Simmonds Christopher Robbins’s article on Finnegans Wake was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 22 Angie Lewin is a printmaker and was the cover artist for Slightly Foxed Issue 27 James Nunn provided a pastiche of Eric Ravilious for the cover of Slightly Foxed Issue 17 Maggie Fergusson’s article on Flowers for Mrs Harris was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 20 Nigel Andrew’s article on The Tortoise and the Hare was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 60 Other Links The shortlist for the 2018 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize.The award party will be held at Maggs Bros A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found on our website: Stockists For subscriptions to Slightly Foxed magazine, visit www.foxedquarterly.com Thanks to Angie Lewin, speaking at the Slightly Foxed Readers’ Day 2018 at the Art Workers’ Guild in London. Music & Sound Effects Blue Jeans courtesy of FreeSfx.co.uk Production Credits The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

In Episode 3: Stet, Gail, Hazel and Anna discuss the art of editing with author and creative writing teacher Sue Gee, and Helen Bourne delves into the dark side of Beatrix Potter. www.foxedquarterly.com/pod Books Mentioned Our series of historical novels by Ronald Welch can be found here Issue 60 of Slightly Foxed Our series of Rosemary Sutcliff’s books will be published in September, starting with The Eagle of the Ninth Sue Gee’s novels include Spring Will Be Ours (1988), Reading in Bed (2007) and Trio (2016). The Mysteries of Glass (2004) was longlisted for the Orange prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction) Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love was edited by Gordon Lish and is available here Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Mr Tod is available here Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Jeremy Fisher Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Pigling Bland Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester Kate Atkinson’s novels include Transcription, Human Croquet, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Emotionally Weird James Hamilton-Paterson, Gerontius Stet by Diana Athill is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea Ronald Blythe’s Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations The cover artist for the Summer issue of Slightly Foxed will be Chloe Cheese Sue Gee’s articles have appeared in Issues 1, 5, 8, 14, 17, 18, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 42, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 58 and 60 of Slightly Foxed Sue’s article on The Tale of Mr Tod, Potter’s Dark Materials, was published in Issue 1 of Slightly Foxed Other Links A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found here Our partners include Gladstone’s Library, the London Library and many more. A full list of our partnerships can be found here Sue Gee co-founded the creative writing course at Middlesex University with Carl Miller, and now teaches at the Faber Academy Stet is an editorial term which means ‘let it stand’Ronald was a friend of painter John Nash Music and sound effects: Tawny owl hoot sound effects thanks to freesfx.co.uk Eerie forest by Greg Swinford thanks to FreeSound Woodland birdsong by Mike Stranks thanks to FreeSound The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable.

In Episode 2: The Oldest Paper in the World Gail, Hazel and Jennie talk to Frances Wood, librarian, sinologue and former head of the Chinese Collection at the British Library; Andrew Hawkins recounts the story of the oldest paper in the world; and we find out which books our readers are hoping for this Christmas. www.foxedquarterly.com/pod Books Mentioned Ernest H. Shepard illustrated Winnie-the-Pooh and Wind in the Willows. His memoirs are Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book Issue 60 of Slightly Foxed David Seabrook, All the Devils Are Here Jonathan Coe, Middle England Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Max Hastings, Vietnam Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts Germain Greer’s White Beech is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details Michael Palin, Erebus: The Story of a Ship Sebastian Fauks, Paris Echo BB’s books are Brendon Chase, The Little Grey Men and Down the Bright Stream Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time Carys Davies, West Sally Rooney, Normal People Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room Katie Stewart’s Times Cookery Book is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen Nigel Slater, The Christmas Chronicles Qiu Xiaolong’s Detective Chen series begins with Death of a Red Heroine Frances Wood, Hand-grenade Practice in Peking Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations Luna North produced the cover for Issue 59 of Slightly Foxed, Autumn 2018 Frances Wood’s article, The Oldest Paper in the World, appeared in Issue 27 of Slightly Foxed, Autumn 2014 Other Links The Slightly Foxed Readers’ Day 2018 took place on 9 November at the Art Workers’ Guild. Our speakers were: Miranda Seymour, who talked about Byron's wife and daughter, Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace Edmond Gordon, whose biography The Invention of Angela Carter won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017 Penelope Lively and Ursula Buchan discussed two of their passions; writing and gardening St Jude’s artists: Angie Lewin, Chloe Cheese and Christopher Brown Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler magazine Details on our Writing Competition can be found here The Diamond Sutra is still available to see in the British Library Slightly Foxed is printed and bound by Smith Settle The Birth of a Book video can be seen here Music and sound effects: Music for reading from The Oldest Paper in the World is Meditations on Life by Matthew Huffaker, Teknoaxe and made available under Creative Commons 4.0 license (no changes made). Sound effect of sleigh bells thanks to Gowler Music via FreeSound.org under Creative Commons Attribution Licence 3.0 (no changes made). The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

In the first episode of The Slightly Foxed Podcast, SF founders Gail Pirkis, Hazel Wood and Steph Allen meet author Jim Ring round the kitchen table at No. 53 to remember how it all began, and Veronika Hyks gives voice to Liz Robinson’s article on Anne Fadiman’s well-loved Ex Libris. www.foxedquarterly.com/pod Books Mentioned Erskine Childers by Jim Ring is available directly from publishers Faber & Faber Second-hand copies of Anne Fadiman’s Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader are available. Please get in touch for details Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres James Lees Milne’s memoirs are out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations Veronika Hyks reads Liz Robinson’s article Kindred Spirits, which can be read in full here The article on The British Seagull, The Best Outboard Motor for the World was written by Ben Hopkinson and appeared in Issue 26 of Slightly Foxed The article on Modesty Blaise was written by Amanda Theunissen and appeared in Issue 11 of Slightly Foxed The article on Georgette Heyer was written by Julia Keay and appeared in Issue 16 of Slightly Foxed The articles on Proust were written by Anthony Wells and appeared in Issues 56, 57 and 58 of Slightly Foxed The article on M. R. James was written by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and appeared in Issue 4 of Slightly Foxed Jim Ring’s articles have appeared in Issues 14, 18, 27 and 43 of Slightly Foxed. His article on Swallows and Amazons can be read here, and on Erskine Childers here Other Links Granta’s Share a Pint campaign with the NHS, promoting Rose George’s book Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood The Leaping Hare at Wyken Vinyards Anthea Bell obituary Music & Sound effects: Reading music ‘Trio for Piano, Violin and Viola’ by Kevin MacLeod www.incompetech.com with thanks to freesfx.co.uk Reading sound effects ‘Pendulum Slow Ticking’ by Klankbeeld with thanks to freesound.org The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable.

The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. Come behind the scenes with the staff of Slightly Foxed to learn what makes this unusual literary magazine tick, meet some of its varied friends and contributors, and hear their personal recommendations for favourite and often forgotten books that have helped, haunted, informed or entertained them. Coming up in Episode 1, 'Kindred Spirits' (Released 15 November) Gail, Hazel, Steph and SF director Jim Ring meet round the kitchen table at No. 53 to remember how it all began and Veronika Hyks gives voice to Liz Robinson’s article on Anne Fadiman’s well-loved Ex Libris.