Slightly Foxed 70: Tigers at the Double Lion

by Gail Pirkis (editor), Hazel Wood (editor)

Genres: Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2021

Reviews

[Tania · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful as ever.

1 Tigers at the Double Lion - Tim Mackintosh-Smith on Anthony Burgess's Malayan Trilogy.

2 Delighted of Tunbridge Wells - David Gilmore on Still Life: A Tunbridge Wells Childhood by Richard Cobb.

3 Food without Shame - Olivia Potts on Laurie Colwin' cook books.

4 When in Rome - Robin Blake on I, Claudius/Claudius the God by Robert Graves.

5 The Shining City - Amanda Theunissen on The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay

6 All's Well That Ends Well - Jim Ring on Coot Club by Arthur Ransome.

7 An American Childhood - Markie Robson Scott on Childplay by Eda Lord.

8 England their England - Jonathan Keats on The Waters Under the Earth by John Moore.

9 Unravelling Burushaski - Lesley Downer on Language Hunting in the Karakoram by E.O. Lorimer.

10 The Joy of Sex - Derek Parker on The Memoirs of Casanova.

11 A Place to Call His Own - Sue Gee on A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul.

12 Peak Experience - Margaret von Klemperer on No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb by Felice Benuzzi.

13 Wheels of Fortune - Jonathan Smith on Silas Marner by George Eliot.

14 What We Have Lost - Jim Crumley on Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell.

15 Hearing distant Thunder - Gillian Tindall on the novels of Rachel Ferguson.

16. What's in a Name - Anthonu Quinn on naming fictional characters.

[Cindy Rollins · Rating 5 out of 5]

The thrill I get when I see that I have Royal Mail is worth the cost of the subscription, but even so the articles are perfection for the book reader. This issue won my heart with its beautiful cover.

And I am always delighted when there are articles on books I have already read. This month it was Swallows and Amazons, The Towers of Trebizond and Silas Marner.
Hardly a page goes by that I am not planning new and exotic reading adventures or moving those old TBR selections like Robert Graves and Laurie Colwin closer to the bedside table.

[Colin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really top-notch summer edition from Slightly Foxed, full of entertaining and tempting articles about favourite books, plus a coda by Anthony Quinn on the ever-fascinating if sometimes vexed question of character names in fiction. I like to take my time with each edition of SF, and by the time I’d got to the end of this one, I’d already ordered and read a book mentioned in the first article (Time for a Tiger, the first volume in in Anthony Burgess’s Malayan Trilogy), and made a mental note to search out some of the other books mentioned,some of which - like Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond have been sitting on my shelves for ages waiting to be read.

[Marie-Clare · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another gorgeous selection of literary recommendations, some familiar, others new; all promoted with enthusiasm and love.

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely as always