Slightly Foxed is a publishing house, a podcast and a literary magazine. I would enthusiastically recommend all of them. The idea behind all three is to promote good writing, to shine a light on books that, to quote the editors, “are no longer new and fashionable, but have a lasting appeal”.
The magazine is a quarterly; it is beautifully produced, and it contains book recommendations made by a varied group of contributors, some well-known, and others not. The books they choose to recommend are varied as well, but what all the contributors have in common is a love of reading, and a passion for the book that they’re writing about.
Each of them has a personal connection to the book in question which has touched them, moved them and made a lasting impact on them. It’s a wonderful way to discover books and writers. To quote the editors once again, Slightly Foxed is “Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like having a well-read friend than a literary review subscription.”
The podcast is a behind the scenes conversation with the staff of Slightly Foxed where they talk about everything that goes into creating this unusual literary magazine. It features some of the friends and contributors of the magazine who share their personal recommendations for favourite and often forgotten books that have helped, haunted, informed or entertained them.
It’s a conversation among a bunch of well-read people, who love books, and are on the show to tell us why they love the books and the writers that they do.
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