Slightly Foxed – The Real Reader's Quarterly

Titles in our Slightly Foxed Editions series have been selling so well that we’ve been thinking for a while of issuing those that have sold out in paperback – we can’t of course reprint them in hardback as each title is published in a limited, hand-numbered edition of 2,000 copies. Now our hand, you might say, has been forced.

Demand for Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School by Ysenda Maxtone Graham, which we published last month, has been so brisk that we’ve now sold out of the hardback edition and the orders are still flooding in. So we’re pleased to announce, for anyone who has missed it, that this hilarious and unusual history of a most unusual school is now available as the first in a series of Slightly Foxed Paperbacks. Light and easy to handle, it costs slightly less than the Slightly Foxed Editions, but is, of course, produced to our usual high standards, in the same neat format and on the same good cream paper as Slightly Foxed itself.

Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School
Ysenda Maxtone Graham

‘A small but perfectly formed masterpiece’
Rupert Christiansen, Telegraph

‘John Betjeman used to say that he had never laughed so much as during the year in which he was the cricket master at a small private school,’ writes A. N. Wilson in his introduction to this story of another small private school, St Philip’s, founded in 1934 by Catholic convert Richard Tibbits, and still going strong today.

Like many of the best books, Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School is not easily classifiable. But for anyone who has enjoyed Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, or Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s, anyone who loves to laugh yet feels the poignancy of the passage of time, this book will be a treat.

All prices include post and packing • Paperback • 170×110mm • 240pp