Now summer has finally crept up on us again – at least we hope it has – and we can think of no more soothing or enjoyable holiday reading than the latest of the Slightly Foxed Editions, Corduroy by the writer Adrian Bell, one of the classic accounts of English country life. Filled with the most precise yet poetic descriptions of life on a Suffolk farm during the 1920s, it was a book, his son the MP Martin Bell tells us, that many soldiers took with them to the battlegrounds of the Second World War, to remind them of the world of peace and sanity they had left behind.
With Chudleigh the office cocker spaniel puppy on holiday in Devon and many of you away in foreign parts we’re enjoying a few weeks of relative calm here in the Slightly Foxed office before copies of the autumn issue of Slightly Foxed and the forthcoming Slightly Foxed Edition, Michael Wharton’s absurdly entertaining memoir The Missing Will, arrive in September.
