Tarka the Rotter

The lead article in the current issue of the excellent Slightly Foxed quarterly magazine is by none other than our own Jonathan Law, who looks at the work (and alarming Nazi politics) of Tarka the Otter author Henry Williamson. Here is the original piece, and in the next two weeks ... Read More...

The Young Ardizzone

If you're looking for a Christmas gift for the bibliophile in your life, you can't go wrong with a subscription to Slightly Foxed, the real readers' quarterly. But Slightly Foxed also publish beautiful limited editions of carefully-selected literary gems that have been allowed to slip out of print. You can buy them ... Read More...

Indexing on the Mekong

Our friends at Slightly Foxed (the real readers' quarterly - buy a subscription now!) have once again kindly allowed The Dabbler to dip into its rich archives. In this article from the Autumn 2004 edition (issue 3),author Julia Keay recounts a remarkable river journey... I guess (but I don’t know, since it’s not often ... Read More...

The Ascent of Rum Doodle

Our friends at Slightly Foxed (the real readers' quarterly - buy a subscription now!) have once again kindly allowed The Dabbler to dip into its rich archives. In this corker -- originally entitled A Rum Do -- from the Spring 2007 edition (issue 14),author Linda Leatherbarrow looks at W E Bowman's classic ... Read More...

Edith Sitwell and the English Eccentrics

Our friends at Slightly Foxed (the real readers' quarterly - buy a subscription now!) have once again kindly allowed The Dabbler to dip into its rich archives. We have handpicked this gem for you -- originally entitled A Splendid Attitude to Death -- from the Spring 2010 edition, in which ... Read More...

Mr Smith Goes to Arcadia by Richard Platt

Slightly Foxed (the real readers' quarterly - buy a subsciption now!)  has kindly allowed The Dabbler to dip into its rich archives. We have handpicked this gem for you from the Autumn 09 edition, in which Richard Platt looks at  Dreamthorp by Alexander Smith: the best-loved, least-known book in the English ... Read More...