Introducing Slightly Foxed
A book is a book is a book is a book
As Gertrude Stein might conceivably have said. Of course all that electronic stuff has its place, but there’s nothing quite like the pleasure of handling and opening a good well-produced book. At least, that’s how we feel at Slightly Foxed. It’s a treat for the whole being, not just the mind.
In case you haven’t yet come across it, Slightly Foxed is a rather unusual quarterly book review. Unaffected by the winds of fashion and the hype of the big publishers, for the past eight years it’s been introducing its readers to some of the thousands of good books that long ago disappeared from the review pages and often from bookshop shelves. Companionable and unstuffy, it has a wide range of contributors – some well-known, some not – who all write personally and entertainingly about the books they choose. It’s not so much a review magazine as a magazine of enthusiasms – some of them quite quirky.
Slightly Foxed isn’t just a good read, it’s a pleasure to hold and to look at – 96 pages in a neat small format, printed on fine cream paper and generously illustrated. People like to keep it on their shelves – and they’re usually not very keen to lend it. They love our series of Slightly Foxed Editions too – beautifully produced little hardback reissues of classic memoirs that have slipped out of print, each available from us in a limited cloth-bound pocket edition of 2,000 copies.
When times are hard there’s nothing like a good read for putting things into perspective – so why not treat yourself to a subscription? We hope you’ll be able to say, with our subscriber the novelist James Hamilton-Paterson, ‘It’s the only cheque in the year that I’m actually happy to write.’