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Slightly Foxed 63: Adrift on the Tides of War
In this issue
Patrick Welland joins the British Council • Jacqueline Wilson puts on her ballet shoes • Michael Barber looks back with gratitude • Miranda Seymour relishes the twilight hour • Christopher Rush agrees ’tis better to have loved and lost • Sue Gee enjoys life without handlebars • Anthony Longden suffers with Lord Alanbrooke • Linda Leatherbarrow remembers Penelope Fitzgerald • Sue Gaisford hears the sound of chariots • Tim Mackintosh-Smith puts a tyger in his tank • Ysenda Maxtone Graham finds time for rhyme, and much more besides . . .
Adrift on the Tides of War • PATRICK WELLAND
Olivia Manning’s Balkan trilogy
Hands off the Handlebars • SUE GEE
Roald Dahl, Boy
One of the Regulars • LINDA LEATHERBARROW
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Means of Escape
’Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost? • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
The Sound of Chariots • SUE GAISFORD
The Roman Britain novels of Rosemary Sutcliff
Porridge and the Shorter Catechism • MORAG MACINNES
F. M. McNeill, The Scots Kitchen
Challenging the Old Gang • MICHAEL BARBER
Noel Annan, Our Age
Hauntings • MICHÈLE ROBERTS
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Hitting the Nail on the Head • YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
The poetry of Jan Struther
The Twilight Hour • MIRANDA SEYMOUR
Peter Davidson, The Last of the Light
At War with Churchill • ANTHONY LONGDEN
Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries
Lost in the Fens • JULIE WELCH
The detective stories of Edmund Crispin
Winning on Points • JACQUELINE WILSON
Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes
Word Magic • TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH
Becoming a writer
Patrick Welland joins the British Council • Jacqueline Wilson puts on her ballet shoes • Michael Barber looks back with gratitude • Miranda Seymour relishes the twilight hour • Christopher Rush agrees ’tis better to have loved and lost • Sue Gee enjoys life without handlebars • Anthony Longden suffers with Lord Alanbrooke • Linda Leatherbarrow remembers Penelope Fitzgerald • Sue Gaisford hears the sound of chariots • Tim Mackintosh-Smith puts a tyger in his tank • Ysenda Maxtone Graham finds time for rhyme, and much more besides . . .
Adrift on the Tides of War • PATRICK WELLAND
Olivia Manning’s Balkan trilogy
Hands off the Handlebars • SUE GEE
Roald Dahl, Boy
One of the Regulars • LINDA LEATHERBARROW
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Means of Escape
’Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost? • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
The Sound of Chariots • SUE GAISFORD
The Roman Britain novels of Rosemary Sutcliff
Porridge and the Shorter Catechism • MORAG MACINNES
F. M. McNeill, The Scots Kitchen
Challenging the Old Gang • MICHAEL BARBER
Noel Annan, Our Age
Hauntings • MICHÈLE ROBERTS
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Hitting the Nail on the Head • YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
The poetry of Jan Struther
The Twilight Hour • MIRANDA SEYMOUR
Peter Davidson, The Last of the Light
At War with Churchill • ANTHONY LONGDEN
Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries
Lost in the Fens • JULIE WELCH
The detective stories of Edmund Crispin
Winning on Points • JACQUELINE WILSON
Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes
Word Magic • TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH
Becoming a writer
96 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2019
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December 1, 2019
Everything in here was a nice read. Perfect length for a quick metro or tram journey.
September 13, 2019
Another inspiring and rewarding edition of Slightly Foxed. As usual, there's plenty of inspiration to read new things: to try again to get into Olivia Manning's Balkan Trilogy that I didn't quite get on with when I tried it a few years ago (Patrick Welland's article Adrift on the Tides of War has done a great job of selling it to me); and to read more of Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen mysteries (I'm on holiday at the moment and just after reading Julie Welch's article Lost in the Fens I fortuitously came across three of them at a bargain price in a nearby charity shop). As well as the inspiration to try new things/read more widely that Slightly Foxed always brings, there's also the delight of reading articles about books and authors that are already personal favourites: in this edition those are represented by Linda Leatherbarrow's reminiscences of Penelope Fitzgerald and Sue Gaisford's evocative article on Rosemary Sutcliff, The Sound of Chariots.
September 10, 2019
Another fine issue, covering books I know I'll never read, books I have already read and loved (Gervase Fen forever!) and books I'll definitely search out. Always a pleasure to receive a new issue of this magazine.
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