# Slightly Foxed > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Slightly_Foxed > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Slightly_Foxed.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slightly_Foxed > Source revision: 1348076410 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|British literary magazine}} {{About|the magazine|the condition in books|Foxing}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Slightly Foxed | image_file = Slightly Foxed cover.png | image_size = | image_caption = Issue 58 | publisher = Slightly Foxed | paid_circulation = 10,000{{cite web |title=A Celebration of Slightly Foxed Readers |date=29 September 2021 |url=https://foxedquarterly.com/celebration-slightly-foxed-readers-ten-thousand-print-run/}} Official website. Retrieved 13 June 2023 | unpaid_circulation = | total_circulation = | frequency = Quarterly | language = English | category = [Literature](/source/Literature), [books](/source/books) | editor = Hazel Wood and Gail Pirkis | editor_title = | founded = 2004 | firstdate = | country = United Kingdom | based = [Hoxton](/source/Hoxton), [London](/source/London) | website = [http://www.foxedquarterly.com www.foxedquarterly.com] | issn = }} '''''Slightly Foxed''''' is a British quarterly literary magazine. Its primary focus is books and book culture. It was established by former [John Murray](/source/John_Murray_(publishing_house)) editors Hazel Wood and Gail Pirkis.{{Cite web |title=Outfoxing the digital revolution |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9134248/Outfoxing-the-digital-revolution.html |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk|first=Gaby|last=Wood|author-link=Gaby Wood|date=12 March 2012 }} Notable authors to have written for the magazine include [Penelope Lively](/source/Penelope_Lively), [Richard Mabey](/source/Richard_Mabey), [Diana Athill](/source/Diana_Athill), [Ronald Blythe](/source/Ronald_Blythe) and [Robert Macfarlane](/source/Robert_Macfarlane_(writer)).[https://foxedquarterly.com/a-history/ Slightly Foxed: A Potted History] Official website. Retrieved 1 October 2016. Instead of books currently marketed by big publishers, ''Slightly Foxed'' tends to examine older and more obscure titles. Its title comes from the term "slightly foxed" as a description of a book's physical quality, commonly used in the second-hand book trade to describe minor [foxing](/source/foxing), the occurrence of brown spots on older paper. As well as the magazine itself, ''Slightly Foxed'' has a books imprint.[https://foxedquarterly.com/our-books/ Our Books] Official website. Retrieved 1 October 2016. Original books published by the imprint include Philip Evans' ''Country Doctor's Common Place Book'' {{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Roger |date=2018-11-29 |title=Books: ''A Country Doctor's Commonplace Book: Wonders and Absurdities'' |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18x700085 |journal=British Journal of General Practice |volume=68 |issue=677 |pages=585.2–585 |doi=10.3399/bjgp18x700085 |pmid=30498155 |issn=0960-1643|pmc=6255243 }}{{Cite web |last=Berkmann |first=Marcus |date=2018-11-22 |title=Top of the Christmas lists |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/top-of-the-christmas-lists/ |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=The Spectator |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Thorpe |first=Vanessa |date=2018-12-02 |title=GP's diary of the absurd set to be surprise festive hit |language=en-GB |newspaper=[The Observer](/source/The_Observer) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/02/country-doctors-commonplace-book-philip-rhys-evans-festive-novelty-bestseller |access-date=2023-06-13 |issn=0029-7712}} and Charles Phillipson’s ''Letters to Michael'' (selected by the ''Telegraph'' as one of the best books of 2021)''.''{{Cite news |last=Writers |first=Telegraph |date=2021-12-22 |title=The 75 best books of 2021 to read this winter |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/best-books-2021-read-winter/ |access-date=2023-06-24 |issn=0307-1235}} The imprint has also reissued a number of classic works and children's books, including [Rosemary Sutcliff](/source/Rosemary_Sutcliff)'s novels about Roman Britain and the Carey novels of [Ronald Welch](/source/Ronald_Welch).{{Cite journal |last=Barnes |first=Clive |date=2016-12-01 |title=A View of War and Soldiering in the Carey Novels of Ronald Welch |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-015-9269-8 |journal=Children's Literature in Education |language=en |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=300–324 |doi=10.1007/s10583-015-9269-8 |s2cid=254377824 |issn=1573-1693|url-access=subscription }} Since 2014, the magazine has sponsored the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for the best first biography or literary memoir published each year.{{Cite web |title=The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize {{!}} The Biographers' Club |url=https://thebiographersclub.com/the-slightly-foxed-best-first-biography-prize/ |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=The Biographer's Club |date=9 January 2020 |language=en-US}} In 2023, the prize was won jointly by [Katherine Rundell](/source/Katherine_Rundell) for her biography of [John Donne](/source/John_Donne), ''Super-Infinite'', and [Osman Yousefzada](/source/Osman_Yousefzada) for his memoir ''The Go-Between.''{{Cite web |title=Rundell and Yousefzada scoop Slightly Foxed prize |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/rundell-and-yousefzada-scoop-slightly-foxed-prize|first=Alice |last=Kemp-Habib |date=15 March 2023 |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=[The Bookseller](/source/The_Bookseller) |language=En}} Winners from previous years include Edmund Gordon for ''The Invention of Angela Carter'' {{Cite web |last=Leith |first=Sam |date=2018-03-07 |title=Angela Carter biography wins award |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/angela-carter-biography-wins-award/ |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=The Spectator |language=en-US}} and [Alan Cumming](/source/Alan_Cumming) for ''Not My Father’s Son.'' {{Cite web |date=2015-11-05 |title=Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize |url=http://www.alancumming.com/2010-a/2015/11/5/slightly-foxed-best-first-biography |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=ALAN CUMMING |language=en-US}} In addition to the quarterly magazine, ''Slightly Foxed'' produces a podcast about books, book culture and writers.{{Cite web |last=Dunn |first=Daisy |date=2020-11-05 |title=The shocking story of Charles and Mary Lamb: Slightly Foxed podcast reviewed |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-shocking-story-of-charles-and-mary-lamb-slightly-foxed-podcast-reviewed/ |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=The Spectator |language=en-US}} Between 2009 and 2016, ''Slightly Foxed'' ran a bookshop of the same name on London's [Gloucester Road](/source/Gloucester_Road%2C_London).{{cite magazine|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/slightly-foxed-close-end-month-319939 |title=Slightly Foxed Bookshop to close at the end of the month|magazine=The Bookseller|first=Natasha |last=Onwuemezi|date=11 January 2016|access-date= 8 April 2026}} The magazine's offices are based at [Hoxton Square](/source/Hoxton_Square), London, N1. For the 20th anniversary and the 80th issue of the publication, the cover of ''Slightly Foxed'' featured an original [linocut](/source/linocut) by [James Nunn](/source/James_Nunn_(artist)) of two foxes in the shape of the number 20. Nunn's art was also featured on the back cover of issues 77, 78, and 79. The issue was published on 1 December 2023.{{Cite web |last=Foxed |first=Slightly |date=December 1, 2023 |title=Cover Artist: Slightly Foxed Issue 80, James Nunn, 'Now We Are 20' |url=https://foxedquarterly.com/cover-artist-slightly-foxed-issue-80-james-nunn/ |access-date=2025-10-16 |website=Slightly Foxed |language=en-GB}} In 2023, Pirkis received an MBE in the [King's Birthday Honours](/source/2023_Birthday_Honours), for services to Literature, in recognition of her work as editor of the magazine. ==References== {{Reflist}} Category:Book review magazines Category:Literary magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Magazines established in 2004 Category:Magazines published in London Category:Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Slightly Foxed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slightly_Foxed) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slightly_Foxed?action=history)). 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