In my latest podcast episode, I’m in conversation with Gail Pirkis, co-founder of the fabulous independent publishing company and literary journal, Slightly Foxed.

Click the play button below to listen to my conversation with Gail Pirkis.

I’ve been a fan of Slightly Foxed publications for such a long time, and this year celebrates their 20th anniversary. It was so much fun to ask Gail about some of her highlights from the past twenty years and to hear about the beginnings of Slightly Foxed as a real ‘kitchen table’ enterprise. 

Slightly Foxed focuses on republishing classic memoirs in beautiful, clothbound hardbacks. Their literary magazine is a quarterly treat, with a collection of essays on lesser-known and backlisted books published four times a year as an attractive soft-cover journal. 

In our conversation, Gail tells me about what she thinks makes a great book review and also shares some book suggestions for the autumn and winter. I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did!

• Sign up to the Slightly Foxed newsletter (scroll down the page and fill in the sign-up form).

• Read Gail’s autumn / winter recommendations: A Classical Education by Richard Cobb; The Other Day by Dorothy Whipple and A Countryman’s Autumn Notebook by Adrian Bell.

• Check out the upcoming book releases: Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield and Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson.

• Listen to the Slightly Foxed Podcast.

  
  Thank you for listening!

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