stockists’ catalogue summer 2017 ‘Hurrah for Slightly Foxed – a truly independent small publishing house that flourishes while eschewing the lure of Amazon’ Arabella Friesen, John Sandoe Books Contents Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly 3 Eclectic, elegant and entertaining, Slightly Foxed is more like a well-read friend than a literary review . Slightly Foxed Editions 4 These classic memoirs, each published in a limited and numbered hardback pocket edition . Plain Foxed Editions 8 These sturdy little books, bound in duck-egg blue cloth, come in the same neat pocket format as the original SFEs . Slightly Foxed Paperbacks 9 Delightful to look at, pocket-sized, easy to handle and elegantly produced . Slightly Foxed Cubs 11 Slightly Foxed Cubs is a series of reissues of classic children’s books which strike a nostalgic chord . 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Issue 54, Summer 2017, ‘An Unlikely Duo’ Publication Date: 1 June 2017 • Cover Price: £11 ISSN: 1742-5974 / ISBN: 978-1-910898-02-4 96pp • 148 x 210mm • Sewn paperback magazine Full colour cover • Black & white illustrations throughout Ysenda Maxtone Graham joins an unlikely couple on the road to Kashgar • Constantine Fraser discovers Old Salonika in a cookbook • Maggie Fergusson discusses writing and serendipity with Ali Smith • Ken Haigh snatches a quiet moment on the river bank • Frost in May gives Melissa Harrison the shivers • Colin Williams digs in on Watership Down • Cecily Blench uncovers her grandmother’s Indian past • Nigel Jarrett scratches his head over The Elements of Style • Elisabeth Russell Taylor is invigorated by The Wild Irish Girl . • Cecily Blench on Angela Bolton, The Maturing Sun • Maggie Fergusson interviews Ali Smith • Constantine Fraser on Eden & Stavroulakis, Salonika: A Family Cookbook • David Gilmour on the Indian stories and poems of Rudyard Kipling • Ysenda Maxtone Graham on Peter Fleming, News from Tartary & Ella Maillart, Forbidden Journey • Ken Haigh on Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler • Melissa Harrison on Antonia White, Frost in May • Michael Holyroyd on John Stewart Collis • Nigel Jarrett on Strunk & White, The Elements of Style • John Keay on Nicolas Bouvier, The Scorpion-Fish Stone of Reynolds © The Estate • Andrew Nixon on E. F. Benson’s Mapp and Lucia novels 54, • Galen O’Hanlon on Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac Issue • Elisabeth Russell Taylor on Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl SF • Colin Williams on Richard Adams, Watership Down From • Hazel Wood on Adrian Bell, The Cherry Tree ‘A much-valued focal point for a literary world that most people had assumed had vanished forever – one that eschews most modern publishing trends, pretty much rejects the persuasions of profit-led publicity and marketing strategies for sub-standard books and instead concentrates on the traditional core values of enduring literary talent and exceptional writing.’ Caught by the River 3 Slightly Foxed Editions These classic memoirs, each published in a limited and numbered hardback pocket edition, are compulsively readable and irresistibly collectable. Hand-numbered limited editions of 2,000 copies per title • Cloth-bound hardbacks Coloured endpapers • 170 x 110mm • Silk headband, tailband and ribbon marker Blind blocking to front • Gold blocking to spine Price: £17.50 per title • 40% discount • Firm sale • Free UK p&p ISBN No. Author Title Pub Date 978-1-910898-03-1 38 Adrian Bell The Cherry Tree June 2017 978-1-910898-00-0 37 Hilary Mantel Giving up the Ghost Mar 2017 978-1-906562-92-2 35 Anthony Rhodes Sword of Bone Sept 2016 978-1-906562-88-5 34 John Moore Brensham Village June 2016 978-1-906562-85-4 33 Diana Petre The Secret Orchard Mar 2016 978-1-906562-83-0 32 Helene Hanff 84, Charing Cross Road Dec 2015 978-1-906562-76-2 31 Gavin Maxwell The House of Elrig Sept 2015 978-1-906562-75-5 30 Adrian Bell Silver Ley June 2015 978-1-906562-74-8 29 Michael Holroyd Basil Street Blues Mar 2015 978-1-906562-70-0 28 Gerald Durrell My Family & Other Animals Dec 2014 978-1-906562-67-0 27 Harold Carlton Marrying Out Sept 2014 978-1-906562-66-3 26 John Moore Portrait of Elmbury June 2014 978-1-906562-51-9 22 Richard Hillyer Country Boy June 2013 978-1-906562-47-2 21 Ysenda Maxtone Graham The Real Mrs Miniver Mar 2013 978-1-906562-42-7 20 Denis Constanduros My Grandfather . Dec 2012 978-1-906562-39-7 18 Elspeth Huxley The Flame Trees of Thika June 2012 ‘Smashing little hardbacks the way hardbacks used to be . produced by people who love books, for people who love books’ Belgravia Books New this summer No. 38 Adrian Bell the cherry tree When the rather delicate would-be poet Adrian Bell left public school at Uppingham, his father, like fathers the world over, urged him to ‘get a proper job’. And perhaps no one was more surprised than he when Bell elected to leave home in Chelsea to work on a Suffolk farm. But that decision was the making of him. Gradually, under the wise guidance of his employer Mr Colville, he learned to love and understand the land, his health and strength improved, and out of the experience he wrote a trilogy of books that have been loved ever since they were first 4 published in the early 1930s. These were the books that soldiers slipped into their kitbags when they went to war in 1939, to remind them of the country they were fighting for and the lives that many of them had left behind. The Cherry Tree is the final volume in this trilogy of lightly fictionalized memoirs (see SF Paperbacks forCorduroy and SFE 30 for Silver Ley), and by the time it opens Bell has acquired his own small farm near the pleasant little Georgian town of Bury St Edmunds, which he calls Stambury. But just as today, farming can be a lonely business, and partly to fill his solitary evenings Bell sits down to record his experiences. This results in the publication of his first book, Corduroy, and a fan letter from a young woman he calls Nora, whom he eventually meets and marries. The picture of their young married life is a cheerful one as they share the work of the farm, explore the countryside in their pony and trap, and furnish the house with bits and pieces picked up in the Stambury junk shops. But The Cherry Tree also records in poignant detail the dying days of an old order before mechanization took over completely, and the growing agricultural depression which would change for ever the face of the countryside and the lives of their country neighbours. In this final book of the trilogy Bell’s poetic eye and farmer’s knowledge come together once more to complete a timeless record of life on the land which still resonates today. (256 pages) Also available No. 37 • Hilary Mantel, Giving up the Ghost Hilary Mantel has said that this powerful and haunting book came about by accident. She never intended to write a memoir, but the sale of a much-loved cottage in Norfolk prompted her to write about the death of her stepfather, and from there ‘the whole story of my life began to unravel’. Giving up the Ghost is a story of ‘wraiths and phantoms’, and of a life full of challenges, but it is very far from being a misery memoir. Rather it is a compulsively readable and ultimately optimistic account of what made Hilary Mantel the writer she is, full of courage, insight and wry humour. (232 pages) No. 35 • Anthony Rhodes, Sword of Bone It’s hard to imagine that anyone who took part in the disaster of Dunkirk could write an amusing book about it. But that is what Anthony Rhodes has done in Sword of Bone, his wry account of the events leading up to the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force in May 1940 – a ‘strategic withdrawal according to plan’ as the chaos was officially described. Being observant and cool-headed, with an ironic sense of humour, he manages to capture the absurdity as well as the tragedy of what took place.