Slightly Foxed Issue 73: ‘A Year in Barsetshire’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl…
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1. Vinegar Girl
By: Anne Tyler
3.38
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible … read more
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2. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
3. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
4. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
The Return of Sherlock Holmesis a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in… read more
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5. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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6. Stet: An Editor's Life
By: Diana Athill
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a gui… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Is He Popenjoy?
By: Anthony Trollope
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The year 1874 saw the conclusion in London of a much publicized court case involving an unlikely pr… read more
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- literature
8. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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9. Miss Mole
By: E.H. Young
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Miss Mole is set between the wars and is the story of Hannah Mole, a fortyish spinster who ekes out… read more
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"Without actually making that confession, her mind went on to imagine what a real love might have been. But such loves do not come in the way of the Miss Moles of this world, and now she was nearly fo…"-E.H. Young, Miss Mole
10. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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- literature
"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
11. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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12. Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.72
Format: 272 pages,
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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13. Why I Write
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more
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14. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
15. Letters to Camondo
By: Edmund de Waal
4.15
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Ca… read more
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16. Godmersham Park
By: Gill Hornby
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more
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"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park
17. The Quiet Side of Passion (Isabel Dalhousie, #12)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The new novel from the bestselling Alexander McCall Smith about Isabel Dalhousie--philosopher, mora… read more
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"We think that we can fix our lives by taking some simple step, but it's not like that. Most problems need lots of sticking plasters. They need coaxing and massaging and looking at from all sorts of d…"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Quiet Side of Passion (Isabel Dalhousie, #12)
"Cover hatred and fear with love and delight, and with innocent things...The proponents of confrontation, violence, the acerbic comment, laughed at the innocent things, thought them naive, considered …"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Quiet Side of Passion (Isabel Dalhousie, #12)
"Someone who lived at Square One would be one who knew that much of our achievement is temporary, if not even illusory, and that ultimately we return to the place we started from, if not geographicall…"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Quiet Side of Passion (Isabel Dalhousie, #12)
18. The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
By: Martin Edwards
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is pla… read more
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19. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
20. Yours Cheerfully (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #2)
By: A.J. Pearce
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman’s Friend… read more
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21. Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.97
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Who fired the fatal shot that snuffed out the life of miserly old Folliner during a London blackout… read more
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"Mind the cat."-E.C.R. Lorac, Checkmate to Murder (Robert MacDonald #25)
22. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
By: A.J. Pearce
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young w… read more
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"Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key."-A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)
24. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- literature
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
25. The Bookseller's Tale
By: Martin Latham
3.81
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale the… read more
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"When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life."-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book’s cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompan…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
"Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appea…"-Martin Latham, The Bookseller's Tale
26. A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846
By: Alethea Hayter
3.75
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
June 1846. As London swelters in a heatwave - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glam… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Slightly Foxed Issue 73: ‘A Year in Barsetshire’
By: Gail Pirkis
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Sl… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
28. A Countryman's Spring Notebook
By: Adrian Bell
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A seasonal selection from the weekly column Bell wrote from 1950 to 1980 for the Eastern Daily Pres… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Old leaves are galloping over the new grass."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"She could no more escape the conviction that rhubarb was a herb of all the virtues than the modern generation can avoid the illusion that Lady Chatterley's Lover is great literature."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"March' is a sharp word, brusque and bracing, like its month. 'January', "February'; they meander like rivers; 'April' is like the sound of raindrops on the windowpane; but 'March' is a gust of wind f…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
"There was wonder in that insubstantial pointer; it gave me news that no clockwork could do. Time was not a fixed series of moments, it said, but something moving like a flower that grows, growing per…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook
29. A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
By: Adrian Bell
4.63
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
In this third volume of our seasonal quartet, Adrian Bell takes us into the summer countryside, to … read more
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"He sings till the cherries begin to colour,' he said as we listened to the nightingale."-Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
"How often we have to thank the sense of beauty of some former country worker for sparing a sapling when cutting a hedge or taking a slip of some doomed tree and setting it 'quick i' the earth' to blo…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
"A very old wisteria rose snaking over an arbour. Nearby were tiny roses on a wall, mere tufty buttons that smelled of one's childhood in a horse-pace village. Thin bricks were set on edge around a be…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
"How long had his widow lived on here, beside the silent forge, with the grass growing up against the closed double doors, and six-feet-tall mallows drowning the hen-run, the potato-plot, the drying-g…"-Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
