An Index to Slightly Foxed
We know from your letters and phone calls (and from the sale of our smart grey slipcases) that many of you like to hold on to your back issues, taking them down from the shelf from time to time to look something up, or reread a piece that has particularly appealed to you. So here, with our best wishes, is a complete guide to the contents of Slightly Foxed, Issues 1–24. We hope it will be useful.
SPRING 2004–WINTER 2009
Note: The number in square brackets indicates the issue number.
A
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart, [22] 37
Al-Tahtawi, Rifa‘a Rafı‘: An Imam in Paris, [3] 48
Ambler, Eric: novels of, [24] 17
American chain bookstores, [2] 92
Amis, Kingsley: The Green Man, [20] 57
Anderson, Sarah: article by, [6] 7
Andrews, Michael: The Life that Lives on Man, [14] 11
Arlen, Michael: The Green Hat, [7] 27
Armstrong, Karen: A Short History of Myth, [7] 84
Athill, Diana: After a Funeral, [2] 57
Atterbury, Paul: article by, [19] 70
Audiobooks, [5] 70
Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice, [24] 78
B
Bagnall, Nicholas: articles by, [2] 44; [6] 76
Balchin, Nigel: The Small Back Room, [24] 60
Baldwin, James: Giovanni’s Room, [6] 42
Banffy, Miklos: The Writing on the Wall: The Transylvanian Trilogy, [5] 54
Bankes, Ariane: articles by, [3] 7; [5] 26; [12] 62; [15] 36; [20] 18
Barber, Michael: articles by, [16] 80; [24] 17
Baring-Gould, Sabine: Cheap Jack Zita, [3] 30; Iceland, Its Scenes and Sagas, [11] 71
Barnard, Josie: articles by, [15] 90; [19] 40
Bassani, Giorgio: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, [12] 69
Bates, H. W.: The Naturalist on the River Amazon, [10] 38
Baynes, Jenny: article by, [1] 46
‘B. B.’ [Denys Watkins Pitchford]: The Little Grey Men, [8] 81
Beerbohm, Max: Seven Men and Two Others, [12] 81
Bell, Adrian, Corduroy, [22] 16
Bemelmans, Ludwig: Hotel Bemelmans [Hotel Splendide], [18] 26
Bentley, E. C.: the clerihews of, [16] 50
Beowulf, [13] 67
Berkmann, Marcus: article by, [12] 32
Berridge, Kate: article by, [12] 7
Berry, Wendell: Jayber Crow, [14] 35, 40
Betts, P. Y.: People Who Say Goodbye, [7] 12
Bird, Christopher: articles by, [3] 12; [18] 31
Blackburn, Julia: The Emperor’s Last Island: A Journey to St Helena, [1] 28
Blake, Robin: articles by, [17] 19; [21] 54
Blake, Quentin: cover illustration by, [24]
Blanch, Lesley: books by, [3] 34
Blythe, Ronald: Akenfield, [11] 7; article by, [17] 7
Bodio, Stephen: Querencia, [19] 51
Bokun, Branko: Spy in the Vatican, [18] 77
Bolt, Ranjit: article by, [5] 44
Book illustration, [4] 54
Bookplates, [1] 70; [2] 56; [3] 33; [5] 25
Bookshops and bookselling, [2] 5, 63; [4] 40; [6] 5; [8] 88; [10] 59; [12] 53; [13] 6, 89; [16] 40; [18] 6
Borrow, George: Lavengro, [2] 44
Boston, Anne: articles by, [1] 32; [3] 34; [8] 40; [12] 69; [19] 18
Botting, Douglas: The Saga of Ring of Bright Water: The Enigma of Gavin Maxwell, [3] 7
Bouvier, Nicolas: The Way of the World: Two Men in a Car from Geneva to the Khyber Pass, [18] 49
Bowker, Gordon: articles by, [11] 36; [17] 82
Bowman, W. E.: The Ascent of Rum Doodle, [14] 28
Bradford, Ernle: Ulysses Found, [18] 81
Brautigan, Richard: Trout Fishing in America, [10] 53
Brett, Simon: articles by, [1] 57, 70; [2] 56; [3] 33; [5] 25; [9] 41; illustration by, [19] 4
Bridgwater, Sue: article by, [5] 82
Broad, Peter: article by, [9] 31
Brooke, Jocelyn: The Scapegoat, [7] 80
Broster, D. K.: novels of, [22] 61
Brothers, Thomas (ed.): Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words, [7] 61
Brown, Craig (ed.): A John Verney Collection, [12] 62
Brown, Susan: cover illustration by, [20]
Bruce Grant, Mary: A Little Bush Maid, [6] 79
Bruce, Robert: article by, [21] 33
Buchan, John: The Complete Richard Hannay, [2] 84
Buchan, Ursula: articles by, [2] 68; [5] 74; [11] 32; [22] 61
Buckeridge, Anthony: the Jennings books, [17] 19
Bulgakov, Mikhail: A Country Doctor’s Notebook, [3] 12
Bunt, Gary: cover illustration by, [23]
Burgess, Anthony: Abba Abba, [15] 69
Burn, Michael: Turned towards the Sun, [24] 45
Byron, Lord: Don Juan, [5] 44
C
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel: articles by, [1] 19; [3] 26; [7] 36; [10] 38; [19] 75
Campomar, Andreas: article by, [8] 70
Camus, Albert: The Outsider, [11] 13
Candappa, Rohan: articles by, [13] 7; [17] 53; [20] 32
Čapek, Karel: Letters from England; The Gardener’s Year, [2] 23
Capital punishment, [1] 89
Caple, John: cover illustration by, [12]
Carpentier, Alejo: The Lost Steps, [1] 78
Carr, J. L.: The Harpole Report; A Month in the Country, [8] 12
Cartwright, Justin: articles by, [1] 35; [2] 15
Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth; Mister Johnson, [1] 85
Caudwell, Sarah: novels of, [23] 45
Cawthorne, Nigel: The Curious Cures of Old England, [8] 87
Chadwick, Owen: Victorian Miniature, [2] 74
Chandler, Raymond: novels of, [8] 40; letters of, [19] 61
Chapman, Caroline: articles by, [2] 60; [9] 67
Charity shops: [15] 90
Child, Lee: the novels of, [21] 68
Children’s stories: [4] 22; [8] 31; [18] 66
Chinese book format, [1] 26; [3] 57
Christie, Agatha: the Miss Marple books, [17] 35
Clee, Nicholas: article by, [14] 88
Cleveland-Peck, Patricia: articles by, [4] 48; [15] 85
Coetzee, J. M.: Dusklands, [7] 32
Coldstream, Patrick: article by, [17] 87
Collins, Billy: poetry of, [17] 71
Collis, John Stewart: works of, [19] 7
Comic novels, [12] 32
Connolly, Cyril: The Unquiet Grave, [4] 78
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo, [3] 26
Conyngham, John: article by, [21] 87
Cookery, [8] 7
Corbett, Jim: Man-eaters of Kumaon, [13] 62
Corr, Christopher: cover illustration by, [1]
Cowper, William: Selected Poems [23] 61
Cricket, [6] 46
Crowden, Sarah: articles by, [7] 76; [12] 48; [19] 57
Curse against Book Stealers, A, [9] 48
D
Dahl, Roald: Fantastic Mr Fox, [24] 66
Dampier, William: works of, [18] 60
David, Janina: A Square of Sky, [3] 71
Davidson, Alan: Fish and Fish Dishes of Laos; A Kipper with My Tea, [6] 67
Davidson, Rosemary (ed.): Gwen Raverat; Gwen Raverat in France, [9] 47
Davies, Katharine: article by, [5] 21
De Boigne, Madame, Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne, [5] 34
De Falbe, John: articles by, [3] 53; [5] 62; [7] 71; [9] 55; [11] 57; [13] 52; [15] 41; [18] 77; [22] 43
De la Mare, Walter: short stories by, [10] 72
Deakin, Roger: Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain, [6] 7
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe, [9] 50
D’Haveloose, Wim: article by, [15] 30
Delafield, E. M.: The Diary of a Provincial Lady, [13] 73
De Vries, Peter: novels by, [21] 22
Denman Flanery, Patrick: articles by, [7] 32; [9] 77
Dewey: classification system, [11] 88
Dickens, Charles: on drinking, [16] 85
Di Lampedusa, Giuseppe: The Leopard, [11] 57
Di Robilant, Andrea: A Venetian Affair, [15] 85
Dixon, Norman F.: On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, [9] 11
Donnelly, Frances: article by, [11] 53
Donnelly, Jennifer: A Gathering Light, [1] 43
Donnolly, Frances: article by, [22] 7
Dorrell, Simon: cover by, [14]
Douglas-Home, Jessica: Once Upon Another Time, [4] 65
Downer, Lesley: article by, [21] 72
Driver, C. J.: articles by, [6] 79; [8] 12; [10] 64; [19] 79; [22] 37; [24] 60
Du Maurier, Daphne: The Parasites, [13] 13
Du Maurier, George: Trilby, [8] 77
Dunn, Kate: article by, [8] 31; [15] 48
Durrell, Gerald: My Family and Other Animals, [18] 38
Durrell, Lawrence: the Alexandria quartet, [14] 18
Duteurtre, Benoît: The Little Girl and the Cigarette, [17] 67
Dutta, Krishna: Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History, [1] 49
Dutton, Geoffrey: Some Branch Against the Sky, [11] 32
E
Eakin, Robin: Aunts up the Cross, [19] 46
Editing, [9] 86
Edwards, G. B.: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, [15] 12
Ehrlich, Bettina: Cocolo, [22] 76
Eland Books, [3] 66
Elborough, Travis: articles by, [12] 57; [24] 66
Eliot, George: Adam Bede, [7] 46
Elliott, Charles: articles by, [9] 86; [11] 84; [14] 7; [22] 87; The Potting Shed Papers, [2] 68
Ellis, H. F.: The Papers of A. J. Wentworth BA, [11] 67
Emms, John: article by, [24] 51
Erdal, Jennie: article by, [21] 22
Evans, Patrick: articles by, [5] 7; [13] 48; [18] 81
Evans, Paul: article by, [10] 42
Ewart Evans, George, and David Thompson: The Leaping Hare, [5] 7
F
Fadiman, Anne: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, [1] 7; The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, [11] 80
Farmar, Francis: cover illustration by, [21]
Farming books: [19] 7
Faulkner, John Meade: The Nebuly Coat, [24] 75
Faulkner, William: As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury, [19] 40
Fergusson, Maggie: articles by, [11] 7; [17] 76; [20] 45; [22] 54; [24] 55
Fermine, Maxence: Snow, [8] 86
Fife, Graeme: article by, [10] 84
Firmin, Hannah: cover illustration by, [7]
Firth, Raymond: We the Tikopia, [5] 49
Fisher, M. F. K.: writings of, [13] 18, 26
Fishlock, Trevor: articles by, [3] 59; [10] 89; [20] 63
Fitzgerald, Penelope: The Beginning of Spring, [1] 32
FitzPatrick, Percy: Jock of the Bushveld, [9] 67
Flanagan, Mary: article by, [6] 42
Fleming, Peter: Brazilian Adventure, [14] 7
Fontane, Theodor: Before the Storm, [11] 76
Forest, Antonia: novels by, [22] 28
Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India, [13] 79
Fox, Paula: Desperate Characters, [1] 46
Frankau, Pamela: the work of, [21] 62
Franklin, Miles: novels of, [21] 38
Frayn, Michael: Towards the End of the Morning, [4] 14
Freud, Sigmund: Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious, [20] 84
Furst, Alan: The Foreign Correspondent, [15] 27
G
Gainham, Sarah: novels of, [15] 80
Galbraith, J.K: The Great Crash, 1929, [21] 33
Gallico, Paul: Flowers for Mrs Harris, [20] 45
Gardam, Jane: article by, [3] 84
Gardens, [1] 28; [2] 68; [3] 21; [5] 74; [10] 24; [11] 32
Gardiner, Juliet: article by, [13] 33; [5] 15
Garner, Alan: Elidor, [23] 56
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Sylvia’s Lovers, [10] 34
Gatrell, Vic: City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London, [15] 74
Gaunt, William: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy, [15] 20
Gee, Sue: articles by, [1] 39; [5] 8; [8] 7; [14] 47; [17] 27; [18] 7; [20] 13; [24] 23
Gekoski, Rick: Tolkien’s Gown & Other Stories, [7] 84
Geras, Adèle: article by, [5] 31
Ghali, Waguih: Beer in the Snooker Club, [1] 62
Ghost stories, [4] 7
Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm, [10] 48
Gill, Peter: article by, [15] 52
Gilmour, David: articles by, [4] 22; [12] 38; The Last Leopard, [11] 57
Gissing, George: New Grub Street, [16] 64
Glain, Stephen: article by, [14] 18
Gluck, Malcolm: articles by, [6] 31; [8] 52; [14] 55; [16] 47
Glynn, Ian and Jennifer: The Life and Death of Smallpox, [6] 37
Gmeyner, Anna: Manja, [1] 57
Godden, Rumer: The Diddakoi, [16] 76
Golding, William: novels of, [7] 18, 24
Goldsworthy, Vera: Chernobyl Strawberries, [7] 71
Gombrich, E. H.: A Little History of the World, [9] 55
Gourevitch, Philip (ed.): The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 2, [20] 50
Grant, Roderick: Strathalder, [23] 78
Gray, Nicholas Stuart: works of, [18] 66
Gray, Simon: novels of, [5] 12
Gray’s Anatomy, [17] 71
Green, Henry: Pack My Bag, [1] 23
Greene family (Barbara, Graham, Hugh): [18] 70
Greene, Graham: Stamboul Train, [22] 7
Grice, Gordon: The Red Hourglass, [7] 36
Griesemer, John: Signal & Noise, [5] 86
Grossman, Vasily: novels of, [16] 58
Gutiérrez, Pedro Juan: Dirty Havana Trilogy, [23] 20
Guiton, Shirley: No Magic Eden; A World by Itself, [13] 85
Gunesekera, Romesh: Reef, [5] 21
H
Hale, Kathleen: the Orlando books, [14] 47
Hall, Tarquin: article by, [9] 63
Haltiner, Jeff: article by, [2] 92
Hamilton-Paterson, James: Griefwork, [14] 82
Hanf, Helen: 84 Charing Cross Road, [24] 55
Hannah, Jonny: cover illustration by, [3]
Hanson, Michele: articles by, [1] 15; [2] 19; [6] 37; [10] 48; [16] 45; [20] 7; [23] 35
Harbouri, Petrie: article by, [24] 88
Hardy, Justine: articles by, [7] 52; [11] 63
Hare, Cyril: Tragedy at Law, [12] 14
Harper, Clifford: illustrations to A Little History of the World, [9] 4, 61
Harrison, John: articles by, [9] 50; [13] 67
Harrison, Pegram: article by, [9] 17; [21] 82
Harrold, A. F.: article by, [23] 61
Hart, Elizabeth Anna: The Runaway, [9] 47
Hart-Davis, Duff: articles by, [1] 66; [4] 45
Hart-Davis, Rupert, Hugh Walpole, [20] 69; The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters, [20] 22
Harvill Press: [13] 52
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter, [4] 60
Hawtree, Christopher: article by, [7] 12
Hay, Daisy: articles by, [21] 38; [23] 82; [24] 78
Hayes, John (ed.): The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, [2] 47
Hazzard, Shirley: The Transit of Venus, [22] 72
Heafield, Simon: article by, [17] 67
Heald, Tim: articles by, [10] 7; [13] 13; [19] 46
‘Hederatus’: Cambridge Nightclimbers, [23] 7
Herodotus: Histories, [20] 39
Herzog, Werner: Of Walking in Ice, [16] 27
Heyer, Georgette: novels of, [16] 20
Hillier, Bevis: article by, [15] 20
Hilton, James: Lost Horizon, [9] 82
Hinton, Nigel: Time Bomb, [5] 81
Hoban, Russell: Riddley Walker, [22] 48
Hogan, Emma: article by, [17] 35; [24] 40
Holder, John: cover illustration by, [11]
Hollyer, Belinda: article by, [1] 43
Holman-Hunt, Diana: My Grandmothers and I, [18] 25
Hopkirk, Peter: article by, [1] 89
Hordern, Miles: article by, [5] 49
Horsley, Sebastian: article by, [5] 70
Hoskins, W. G.: The Making of the English Landscape, [4] 18 Household, Geoffrey: Rogue Male, [22] 33
Hudson, Roger: articles by, [2] 47; [5] 34; [8] 63; [11] 22; [16] 12; [20] 28; [24] 34
Hughes, David: The Pork Butcher, [22] 54
Hughes, Richard: article by, [20] 69
Humphrey, William: The Spawning Run, [13] 48
I
Ibn Battutah: The Travels of Ibn Battutah, [18] 86
Indexing, [3] 87
Ingrams, Richard: article by, [19] 7; [22] 22
Interviewing authors: [14] 88
Ironside, Virginia: article by, [11] 47
J
Jacobson, Dan: article by, [21] 49
Jacobson, Howard: Coming from Behind, [1] 15
James, C. L. R.: Beyond a Boundary, [6] 46
James, M. R.: Casting the Runes, [4] 7
James, P. D.: article by, [12] 14
James-Moore, Jonathan: article by, [5] 70
Jane Nissen Books, London, [8] 81
Japrisot, Sébastien: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, [12] 45
Jay, Ricky: Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women; Extraordinary Exhibitions, [12] 7
Johns, Captain W. E.: the Biggles books, [6] 19
Jolliffe, John: article by, [11] 76
Jones, Cleolinda: Movies in Fifteen Minutes, [8] 86
Joyce, James: Dubliners, [17] 82; Finnegan’s Wake, [22] 81
Judd, Denis (ed.): The Private Diaries of Alison Uttley: 1932-1971, [24] 23
K
Kapuscinski, Ryszard: works of, [18] 31
Kark, Austen: Attic in Greece, [1] 11
Kavan, Anna: novels of, [11] 47
Kazantzakis, Nikos: Report to Greco, [1] 71
Keay, John: works of, [15] 52; articles by, [1] 49; [6] 67; [22] 26
Keay, Julia: article by, [2] 81; [3] 87; [11] 80; [16] 20
Kennedy, Richard: A Boy at the Hogarth Press; A Parcel of Time, [20] 13
Keret, Etgar: The Nimrod Flip Out, [5] 87
Kermode, Frank and Anita (eds.): The Oxford Book of Letters, [13] 37
Kilvert, Francis: Diary, [16] 12
King, Francis: article by, [3] 63
Knight, Eric: Sam Small Flies Again, [24] 51
Kobak, Annette: article by, [2] 23
Koestler, A: Darkness at Noon, [21] 49
Kurtz, Irma: article by, [4] 60
L
Ladybird Books: the Well Loved Tales series, [14] 72
Laing, Olivia: article by, [16] 76
Lambert, Gavin: novels, memoirs and film scripts by, [12] 57
Lancelyn Green, Roger: Tales of the Greek Heroes, [8] 31
Langley Moore, Doris: E. Nesbit, [7] 76
Laurie, Simon: cover illustration by, [22]
Lawrence, D. H.: his use of adjectives, [16] 45, 93
Lawrence, Elizabeth: Gardening for Love, [3] 21
Lawrence, John: bookplates by, [2] 56
Lawrence, Simon: article by, [23] 45
Leatherbarrow, Linda: articles by, [3] 17; [10] 53; [14] 28; [18] 20; [20] 50; [23] 30
Lee, Charles (with D. B. Wyndham Lewis) (eds.): The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, [10] 13
Lee-Potter, Charlie: article by, [14] 78
Lees-Milne, James: portrait of, [8] 17; diaries of, [8] 23; Another Self, [24] 16
Lehane, Brendan: article by, [2] 74
Leigh-Fermor, Patrick: Roumeli, [2] 11
Leiper, Susan: articles by, [1] 26; [3] 57
Lethbridge, Lucy: articles by, [5] 58; [11] 71; [12] 73; [15] 65; [23] 78
Letter writing: [13] 37
Lewis, C. S.: works of, [12] 48
Lewis, Jeremy: articles by, [3] 71; [5] 12; [11] 67; [18] 70; [23] 14
Libraries, [11] 88
Linklater, Eric: The Dark of Summer, [8] 27
Literary awards, [6] 86
Literary web-logs (‘blogs’), [7] 5
Litvinoff, Emanuel: Journey Through a Small Planet, [9] 63
Lively, Penelope: articles by, [4] 28; [7] 18; [21] 12
Longville, Tim: articles by, [3] 21; [10] 24; [14] 82; [21] 43
Lopez, Barry: Arctic Dreams, [4] 28
Love-Peacock, Thomas: Headlong Hall; Crotchet Castle, [5] 78
Lucas, Branwen: article by, [23] 67
Lucie-Smith, Alexander: article by, [22] 17
Lunzer Gifford, Jane: article by, [13] 18
Lycett, Andrew: article by, [24] 45
Lycett-Green, Candida: Over the Hills and Far Away, [1] 66
Lyttelton, George: The Lyttleton Hart-Davis Letters, [20] 22
M
Maalouf, Amin: Leo the African, [11] 17
Mabey, Richard: Food for Free [23] 30
Macartney-Snape, Sue: cover illustration by, [8]
Macartney, Catherine (Lady): An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan, [23] 51
Macaskill, Hilary: article by, [14] 65
McCann, Colum: Dancer, [3] 53
McCarthy, Mary: Birds of America, [19] 75
McClure, Emma: cover illustration by, [9]
McClure, N. E. (ed.): The Chamberlain Letters, [11] 22
Macdonald, Rowena: article by, [22] 48
Macdonell, A. G.: novels of, [10] 64
McFadden, Cyra: The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, [2] 29
Macfarlane, Robert: article by, [23] 7
McGreachan, Toni: cover illustration by, [10]
McIntyre, Grant: articles by, [8] 17; [16] 31; [19] 11; [24] 14
Mackail, Denis: Greenery Street, [1] 57
Mackay Brown, George: essays of, [4] 32
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim: articles by, [2] 11; [4] 7; [18] 86
Macklin, Daniel: cover by, [19]
Maclaren-Ross, Julian: Of Love and Hunger, [3] 80
McLaughlin, Ben: cover illustration by, [6]
Maclean, Fitzroy: Eastern Approaches, [9] 35
McLean, Stuart: Home from the Vinyl Café, [6] 83
McLoughlin, Stewart: Wandsworth Prison, [1] 89
McNeill, William H.: Plagues and People, [6] 37
Madhavan, Cauvery: The Uncoupling, [3] 77
Mahmood, Shazia: cover by, [15]
Maia Press, London, [2] 88
Mann, Jessica: article by, [15] 80
Márai, Sándor: Embers, [4] 69
Marett-Crosby, Michael: article by, [22] 66
Marozzi, Justin: articles by, [11] 17; [13] 57; [20] 39
Marshall, H. E.: Our Island Story, [9] 55
Marshall, Owen: short stories of, [8] 52
Martin, Andrew: article by, [23] 73
Martin, J.P.: novels of, [22] 22
Martin, Colin: articles by, [6] 50; [17] 49
Masson, Sophie: articles by, [10] 80; [12] 77; [18] 66
Matrix, [6] 50
Maugham, Somerset W.: Collected Short Stories, [10] 7
May, Derwent: article by, [3] 74
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda: article by, [14] 72
Maxwell, William: novels of, [2] 15; letters to Sylvia Townsend Warner, [10] 60
Meynell, Francis (ed.): The Weekend Book, [8] 87
Millar, George: life and writings of, [19] 70
Minshull, Duncan: article by, [16] 27; [23] 41
Mitchell, Henry: gardening books by, [10] 24
Mitchell, Joseph: Up in the Old Hotel, [12] 73
Mitford, Nancy: The Pursuit of Love; Love in a Cold Climate, [20] 7
Molesworth: [21], 54
Monsarrat, Nicholas: The Cruel Sea, [4] 72
Montgomery, L. M..: novels of, [23] 82
Moore, Lorrie: Anagrams, [15] 48
Moran, Lord: The Anatomy of Courage, [19] 32
Moran, Michael: article by, [7] 27
Morley, Christopher: Parnassus on Wheels, [12] 53
Morrall, Clare: article by, [6] 19
Morris, James (Jan): Pax Britannica, [12] 38
Mountaineering, [14] 28
Muir, Edwin: An Autobiography, [17] 76
Munro, James: the John Craig thrillers, [19] 27
‘Murasaki Shikibu’ (nom de plume): The Tale of Genji [21], 72
Muntz, Hope: The Golden Warrior, [15] 58
Murphy, Dervla: articles by, [6] 25; [18] 49
Murray, Nicholas: article by [18] 38
Museum of Jurassic Technology, [2] 32
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Naipaul, V. S.: Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, [3] 43
Napier, Priscilla: A Late Beginner, [21] 16
Narayan, R.K.: novels of, [22] 26
Nash, Ogden: Candy is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash, Linell Smith & Isabel Eberstadt (eds.): [24] 7
National Trust, The, [8] 17
Nesbit, E.: stories by, [4] 56; [7] 76; [12] 50
Neumark, Victoria: articles by, [7] 46; [13] 37; [21] 28
Newby, Eric: Something Wholesale, [15] 36
Newspapers, [10] 89
Nicoll, Jeff: article by, [19] 51
Noel-Tod, Jeremy: articles by, [16] 7; [18] 43; [20] 84; [23] 7
Nooteboom, Cees: Nomad’s Hotel; The Following Story, [13] 57
Norbu, Jamyang: The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, [1] 75
Normington, Gregory: article by, [15] 69
Nunn, James: cover by, [17]
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Oborne, Peter: article by, [6] 46
O’Connor, Flannery: Wise Blood, [9] 17
O’Donnell, Peter: novels and cartoons by, [11] 27
O’Keeffe, Alice: article by, [23] 20
Oliver, Reggie: Out of the Woodshed: The Life of Stella Gibbons, [10] 48
Onassis, Jacqueline: as an editor: [4] 82
Ondaatje, Michael: Running in the Family, [7] 52
Origo, Iris: War in Val d’Orcia, [20] 80
Orkney, [4] 32
Orwell, George: Keep the Aspidistra Flying, [11] 36; Down and Out in Paris and London, [21] 7
Ota, Tsugumi: cover illustration by, [2]
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, [14] 24
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Palmer, William: articles by, [7] 61; [10] 72; [12] 81; [16] 85; [20] 57
Parasites and bacteria, [14] 11
Paris Review, The, [20] 50
Parker, Derek: articles by, [6] 85; [8] 58; [10] 13; [16] 69; [21] 77
Parker, Douglas M.: Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse, [24] 7
Parker, Tony: The People of Providence, [18] 55
Paton Walsh, Jill: articles by, [1] 11; [4] 65
Paul, Charlotte: Minding Our Own Business, [21] 43
Pavey, Ruth: article by, [5] 54
Peake, Mervyn: novels of, [12] 19, 28; [22] 66
Peake, Sebastian: article by, [12] 28
Pepys, Samuel: The Diaries, Robert Latham and William Matthews (eds.), [24] 34
Perrotta, Tom: Little Children, [6] 84
Perry, Anthony: articles by, [1] 92; [4] 78
Persephone Books, London, [1] 56
Petty, Mike: articles by, [2] 39; [4] 14; [8] 88; [11] 13
Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus: The Buildings of England, [17] 61
Plagiarism: Anthony Perry on, [1] 92; Derek Robinson on, [12] 87
Platt, Richard: articles by, [14] 35, [15] 12; [23] 24
Platzer, David: article by [19] 27
Pocket-size volumes: [17] 7
Poetry Review: Derek Parker on, [6] 85
Pomfret, Kat: Paradise Jazz, [6] 83
Pope-Hennessey, Una: Charles Dickens, [16] 85
Potter, Beatrix: The Tale of Mr Tod, [1] 39
Potter, Stephen: books of, [23] 73
Powell, Anthony: A Dance to the Music of Time, [16] 31
Powell, Margaret: memoirs of, [15] 65
Power, Cyril Edward: cover illustration by, [18]
Prep-school reading: [17] 19
Preston, Diana: article by, [18] 60
Prévost, Antoine François: Manon Lescaut, [22] 17
Price, R. G. G.: Betty Hope’s Survive with Me, [13] 7
Pritchett, Oliver: articles by [19] 23; [24] 7
Pritchett, V.S.: A Cab at the Door, [19] 18; walking with [19] 23
Private presses, [7] 39
Prynne, J. H.: Poems, [1] 19
Publishers, [1] 56; [3] 66; [8] 81
Pym, Barbara: Excellent Women; Jane and Prudence, [11] 53
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Ramsden, George: article by, [11] 42
Ransome, Arthur: The Swallows and Amazons books, [18] 13
Raphael, Sandra, [12] 53
Raven, Simon: novels of, [8] 70
Raverat, Gwen: Period Piece, [8] 46
Raymond, Diana: articles by, [21] 62
Reed, Jeremy: A Stranger on Earth, [11] 47
Reiss, Tom: The Orientalist, [10] 30
Reisz, Matthew J.: articles by, [3] 48; [7] 39; [15] 74
Rhys, Jean: novels of, [4] 48
Ring, Jim: articles by, [14] 59; [18] 13
Robb, Peter: Midnight in Sicily, [8] 35
Robbins, Christopher: articles by, [19] 32; [21] 7; [22] 81
Roberts, A.E.: article by, [23] 56
Roberts, Kenneth: Arundel, [11] 84
Robertson, Geoffrey: The Tyrannicide Brief, [7] 85
Robinson, Derek: articles by, [7] 86; [12] 87; [17] 71; novels of, [2] 39
Robinson, Karen: articles by, [2] 29; [12] 45; [15] 27; [21] 68; [24] 84
Robinson, Liz: article by, [1] 5; [13] 73
Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping, [20] 18
Rocco, Fiammetta: article by, [8] 35
Roche, Paul: cookery books and poetry of, [8] 7
Rochester, Julia: article by, [8] 27
Rogerson, Barnaby: articles by, [6] 11; [12] 19
Rosten, Lee: The Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n: [24] 29
Routledge, Paul: articles by, [9] 35; [16] 64
Rowse, A. L.: grievances of: [14] 24
Rush, Christopher: articles by, [4] 32; [9] 22; [17] 39
Ruskin, John: Praeterita, [3] 74
Russell Taylor, Elisabeth: article by, [4] 69
Russian literature: [13] 52
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Sackville-West, Vita: In Your Garden; In Your Garden Again, [5] 74
Sagan, Françoise: Bonjour Tristesse, [14] 78
Said, Kurban: Ali and Nino, [10] 30
Sail, Lawrence: articles by, [10] 18; [22] 76
Sailing stories, [3] 59
St Albans, Suzanne: Mango and Mimosa, [1] 81
St Aubyn, Edward: The Patrick Melrose Trilogy, [5] 67
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro): short stories by, [17] 53
Saleem, Hiner: My Father’s Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan, [11] 63
Salmon fishing, [13] 48
Sattin, Anthony: articles by, [1] 62; [2] 57; [10] 30
Saumarez Smith, John: articles by, [2] 63; [4] 40; [6] 72; [8] 23; [10] 59; [12] 53; [14] 24; [16] 40; [20] 80; [24] 75
Schanilec, Gaylord: Mayflies of the Driftless Region, [6] 50
Schlee, Ann: The Time in Aderra, [3] 84
Schneider, Peter: The Wall Jumper, [23] 41
School Magazine, The, [12] 77
Schwed Jr., Fred: Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street, [ 21] 33
Sciascia, Leonardo: To Each His Own, [16] 47
Scott, Linda: cover illustration by, [5]
Scott, Paul: Staying On, [9] 7
Scott, Rivers: article by, [1] 78
Sealy, Allan: The Everest Hotel, [2] 81
Searle, Ronald: cover illustration by, [4]; Slightly Foxed – but still desirable, [20] 92
the Molesworth chronicles of, [21], 54
Sebag Montefiore, Simon: My Affair with Stalin, [9] 31
Sebald, W. G.: The Rings of Saturn, [18] 43
Sebba, Anne: articles by, [6] 56; [10] 34; [22] 72
Sellar, W. C., and Yeatman, R. J.: 1066 and All That, [16] 7; And Now All This, [20] 84
Self, Jonathan: article by, [2] 71
Sendak, Maurice: works of, [20] 32
Sergeant, Harriet: articles by, [2] 7; [13] 42
Seton, Anya: novels of, [10] 80
Seymour, Miranda: article by, [7] 80
Shakespeare, William: necessity to read the plays [9] 22
Sheldon, Michael: Graham Greene: The Man Within, [22] 7
Shelton, Richard: The Longshoreman, [4] 45
Sheppard, John: article by, [19] 61
Shikibu, Murasaki: The Tale of Genji, [21] 72
Shirley Smith, Richard: bookplate by, [3] 33
Sikorski, Radek: The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland, [17] 27
Silk, Dennis: article by, [14] 43
Sillitoe, Andrew: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, [7] 67
Simmonds, Posy: cartoons of, [15] 7; cover by, [16]
Sinclair, Andrew: article by, [7] 24
Sinclair-Stevenson, Christopher: article by, [13] 8
Singh, Khushwant: Train to Pakistan, [20] 63
Slightly Foxed: launch of first issue, [1] 5; moving premises, [3] 5; first year of , [5] 5; Best New Journal award, [4] 6; death of Jennings, [7] 5; ‘The Christmas Fox I’, [8] 5, [11] 6; slipcases, [10] 5, postcards, [11] 5; ‘The Christmas Fox II’, [12] 6; death of Pugwash, [20] 6; arrival of Chudleigh, [22] 11
Slightly Foxed Editions: No. 1, Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills, [17] 5; No.2, Diana Holman-Hunt, My Grandmothers and I, [18] 6; No.3, V. S. Pritchett, A Cab at the Door, [19] 6; No. 4, Richard Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time, [20] 6; No. 5, Priscilla Napier, A Late Beginner, [21] 16; No.6, Adrian Bell, Corduroy [22] 11; No.7 Michael Wharton, The Missing Will [22] 14; No.8, James Lees-Milne, Another Self [24] 14
Slightly Foxed on Gloucester Road: acquisition of new shop [24] 5
Slocum, Joshua: Sailing Alone Around the World, [3] 59
Smith, Alexander: Dreamthorp, [23] 24
Smith, Dodie: I Capture the Castle, [19] 84
Smith, Giles: Lost in Music, [24] 71
Smith Settle printing press, [10] 5
Smoking, [16] 67
Smollett, Tobias: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, [23] 35
Spalding, Frances: Gwen Raverat, [9] 47
Spark, Muriel: Momento Mori; Curriculum Vitae, [24] 40
Spiller, David: articles by, [18] 55; [20] 22
Squires and parsons, [2] 74
Stallworthy, Jon: article by, [15] 58
Stannard, Martin: Muriel Spark: The Biography, [24] 40
Stegner, Wallace: Angle of Repose, [6] 56
Stein, Sylvester: article by [1] 85
Steinberg, Neil: Hatless Jack, [7] 85
Steinman, Michael (ed.): The Element of Lavishness, [10] 59
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, [14] 65; Treasure Island, [17] 39
Stewart, Sheila: Lifting the Latch: A Life on the Land, [14] 43
Stone, Humphrey and Solveig: article by, [13] 26
Stone Trough Books, [5] 26
Storm, Theodor: novels of, [6] 76
Streatfeild, Noel: Ballet Shoes, [19] 57
Sullivan, Mary: articles by, [1] 23; [2] 78
Sutcliff, Rosemary: novels of, [4] 25; Blue Remembered Hills, [17] 18
Sutherland, Christine: The Princess of Siberia, [5] 62
Suttie, Ian Dishart: The Origins of Love and Hate, [2] 19
Symes, Ruth: articles by, [13] 79; [19] 84
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Tale of Genji, The, [21] 72
Taylor, Elizabeth: At Mrs Lippincote’s, [13] 33
Taylor, Irene and Alan (eds.): The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists, [2] 7
Television documentaries, [18] 86
Temple, Hilary: article by, [7] 56
Tennant, Emma: article by, [4] 82
Tennyson, Julian: Suffolk Scene, [23] 67
Tey, Josephine: The Daughter of Time, [8] 63
Thirkell, Angela: novels of, [7] 91
Theunissen, Amanda: articles by, [11] 27; [23] 51
Thompson, J. W. M.: article by, [5] 78
Thomson, David, with George Ewart Evans, The Leaping Hare, [5] 7; Woodbrook, [6] 25
Thomson, Elizabeth (ed.): The Chamberlain Letters, [11] 22
Thurber, James: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty; My Life and Hard Times, [16] 69
Tiffany, Carrie: Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, [17] 49
Tinbergen, Niko: Curious Naturalists; The Herring Gull’s World, [19] 11
Tinniswood, Peter: novels of, [12] 32
Tomalin, Claire: Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, [24] 34
Torr, Cecil: Small Talk at Wreyland, [8] 58
Tortoises, [5] 88
Townsend Warner, Sylvia: Letters to William Maxwell, [2] 15; [10] 59; The Music at Long Verney, [3] 17
Travel writing, [6] 11; [14] 11
Travels of Ibn Battutah, The, [18] 86
Treglown, Jeremy: Roald Dahl: A Biography, [24] 66
Turgenev, Ivan: A Sportsman’s Notebook, [7] 7
Tyler, Christian: articles by, [1] 71; [3] 43; [7] 7; [9] 11; [13] 62; [14] 40; [16] 58; [22] 11
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Unsworth, Barry: novels of, [22] 43
Ure, John: article by, [2] 84
Uttley, Alison: The Country Child, [5] 82; The Little Grey Rabbit Books, [24] 23
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Vansittart, Peter: The Tournament, [9] 71
Verney, John: Going to the Wars; A Dinner of Herbs, [12] 62
Vidor, Constance: article by, [19] 90
Voltaire, François-Marie: Candide, [10] 18
von Rezzori, Gregor: novels by, [15] 41
Voynich, Ethel Lillian: The Gadfly, [6] 60
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Walking, [16] 27
Wall, Andrew: article by, [2] 53
Walpole, Hugh: novels of, [20] 75
Watson, Lyall: articles by, [2] 32; [14] 11
Waugh, Alec: novels of, [16] 80
Waugh, Evelyn: Put Out More Flags, [9] 77
Weatherill, Cat: Barkbelly, [6] 84
Webb, Kaye, [8] 31, 81
Webb, Mary: Precious Bane, [10] 42
Welch, Denton: A Voice Through a Cloud, [5] 58
Weschler, Lawrence: Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, [2] 32
West, Rebecca: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, [14] 55
West, Nathanael: novels of, [10] 84
Wharton, Edith: library of, [11] 42
Wharton, Michael: The Missing Will, [23] 19
Wheeler, David: article by, [1] 28
‘Whipplesnaith’: The Night Climbers of Cambridge, [23] 7
White, Patrick: Voss, [15] 30
White, T. H.: Mistress Masham’s Repose, [2] 78
Whitehorn, Katharine: Cooking in a Bedsitter, [24] 84
Wilder, Thornton: The Bridge of San Luis Rey, [19] 75
Willetts, Paul: articles by, [3] 80; [7] 67
Wilans, G: the Molesworth chronicles of, [21], 54
Williamson, C.N and A.M.: novels of, [21] 17
Wilson, A. N.: C. S. Lewis: A Biography, [12] 48
Winchester, Donald: article by, [24] 71
Wining and dining poets, dangers of, [8] 88
Wollheim, Richard: Germs, [7] 71
Wood, Antony: article by, [16] 50
Wood, Brian: article by, [21] 17
Wood, Frances: articles by, [1] 75; [6] 60; [11] 88; [20] 90
Wood, Hazel: articles by, [1] 53, 81; [2] 88; [3] 66, 77; [8] 46, 81; [15] 7; 17 [13]; [20] 75; [24] 29
Wood engraving, [9] 41
Woodman, Richard: article by, [4] 72
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway, [18] 7
World’s Classics, [6] 72
Wright, C. J.: articles by, [13] 89; [23] 87
Wright, Patrick: Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine, [5] 15
Wynd, Oswald: The Ginger Tree, [13] 42
Wyndham Lewis, D. B.: The Revenge for Love, [3] 63; The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, [10] 13
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Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road, [5] 31
Young, Edward: One of Our Submarines, [14] 59
Yourcenar, Marguerite: Memoirs of Hadrian, [2] 60
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Zola, Emile: Ladies’ Paradise, [2] 53
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