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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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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:
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'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
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
'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
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
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
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
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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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. ❤️
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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November 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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. ❤️
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.
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.
A lovely listen for anyone who might happen to be reading a Brontë novel at the moment:
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At Home with the Brontës
Podcast Episode · Slightly Foxed · 15/10/2025 · 52m
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October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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.
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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“#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...
October 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Calling East Anglia dwellers and Adrian Bell fans for this exciting forthcoming event in Halesworth!
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.
October 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Calling East Anglia dwellers and Adrian Bell fans for this exciting forthcoming event in Halesworth!
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‘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
Roger W Holmes quoted by Robin Blake in his splendidly thought-provoking essay ’Alice in the Margins’ in the latest @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
‘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
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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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.
Who am I kidding? I have no book budget.
September 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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.
Who am I kidding? I have no book budget.
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Sound advice from the cleric Sydney Smith, courtesy of Stephen Bayley in this quarter’s Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social.
August 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Sound advice from the cleric Sydney Smith, courtesy of Stephen Bayley in this quarter’s Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social.
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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...
August 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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...
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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
'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
August 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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
'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
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.
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
September 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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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I’m delighted to have a piece on Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal in the latest issue of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social.
August 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I’m delighted to have a piece on Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal in the latest issue of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social.
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.
It’s always a good day when @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social arrives. But surely it’s a long time until autumn is due?
September 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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.
A fantastic piece on print publishing, featuring words from our very own founder Gail Pirkis!
‘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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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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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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August 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A fantastic piece on print publishing, featuring words from our very own founder Gail Pirkis!
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:
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August 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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:
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Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark
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#podcast #murielspark #bookish
Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark
Listen here:
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#podcast #murielspark #bookish
July 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
OUT NOW!
Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark
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#podcast #murielspark #bookish
Episode 54 | The Many Lives of Muriel Spark
Listen here:
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#podcast #murielspark #bookish
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
Find out more about these charming #childrensbooks here:
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#ChristeningPresents
July 7, 2025 at 11:32 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
Find out more about these charming #childrensbooks here:
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#ChristeningPresents
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!
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
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!
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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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.
June 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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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. +
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
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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
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June 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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. +
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.
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
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.
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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May 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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'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.'
May 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
'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.'
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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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May 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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...