Could Summer have finally arrived? It certainly has at Slightly Foxed HQ as the office is full to bursting with copies of the Summer issue of Slightly Foxed and our tenth Slightly Foxed Edition, Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders – the perfect summer read. Michael Jenkins is the first living author that we’ve republished in our Slightly Foxed Edition series and we were delighted to be able to relaunch the book in style this month with Michael, P.D. James and many other friends at Slightly Foxed on Gloucester Road. We even bagged a spot in the Evening Standard’s ‘Londoner’s Diary’:
‘BUOYED by her triumph as the Oldie magazine’s Handbagger of the Year — a reference to her demolition of the BBC director-general Mark Thompson — thriller writer Baroness James of Holland Park was at Slightly Foxed on Gloucester Road, the antiquarian bookshop, last night for the launch of Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders. “There are some books, not necessarily the longest, in which the author’s intention is so perfectly realised, a seminal experience of life so beautifully recorded that the book becomes a small icon to be treasured not only on the shelf of a personal library, but in the mind,” writes P.D. James in the Slightly Foxed Quarterly. No handbagging there.’
