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 You wander hopefully into the fiction section. You'd like to talk to someone, but the nearest assistant is on the phone. You gaze round at the shelves nonplussed.
You have a dim memory of a book a friend mentioned, a wonderful novel published by a small press. You feel sure you'd know it if you saw it, but nothing jumps out at you... It's getting late. You tell yourself you'll try again when you have more time. If you recognize yourself here, then Slightly Foxed is for you.
Former editors at John Murray, co-founders Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood have created a new quarterly for the non-conformist, for people who don't want to read only what the big publishers are hyping and the newspapers are reviewing.
Slightly Foxed fills this gap, introducing its readers to all those wonderful books that languish on publishers' backlists but have too often disappeared from bookshops, and to interesting new books from small presses that rarely get reviewed or stocked by the chain bookshops
The real reader's quartlery, Slightly Foxed, isn't simply a guide. It is also good company, giving you the lively, personal advice on what's new and unusual, and what's lasting and available, that you might once have got from a knowledgeable local bookseller. Contributors write about books that have been overlooked, neglected or forgotten, and books to which they return for pleasure, comfort or escape.
Slightly Foxed is a joy to read and a pleasure to look at, printed on fine paper and generously illustrated. Each issue of 96 pages contains around 25 reviews of between 30 and 40 books. Each quarter, Slightly Foxed plan to bring a selection of books that have passed the test of time, that have excited, fascinated or influenced the contributors to the magazine. A fascinating range of books has been chosen for this first Spring Issue with more surprises in store already for Issue No.2 Summer 2004.
Still slightly foxed by the name? Although it describes the average person's state of mind when scanning the bookshops for something to read, it is also an antiquarian bookseller's term for a volume whose pages time has discoloured with brown spots.
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Slightly Foxed...
Slightly Foxed is a quarterly book review. Subscriptions are priced at £32 for delivery within the UK, £37 for delivery elsewhere in Europe, US $70 for delivery to the USA, and £42 for delivery to the rest of the world.
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Slightly Foxed Limited, 21 Alwyne Road, London N1 2HN, UK |
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+44(0)20 7359 3377/3322 |
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+44(0)870 1991245 |
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www.foxedquarterly.com |
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