Gail, Hazel and Jennie talk to the artist and illustrator (and master of pastiche) David Eccles about the craft of marrying image and text. The actress Petra Markham takes to the airwaves with Posy Simmonds, and the printmaker Angie Lewin recalls her experience of being commissioned for a Slightly Foxed cover.
Books Mentioned
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler
Richard Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time
Gwen Raverat, Period Piece
E. H. Shepard, Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Christopher Matthew, Now We are Sixty, with decorations by David Eccles
The Slightly Foxed Cubs edition of The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff will be published in September 2019
Posy Simmond’s latest book, Cassandra Darke
Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico is also known as Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, and is available in a single volume together with Mrs Harris Goes to New York.
Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare
Mathias Enard, Compass
Kathleen Hale’s autobiography, A Slender Reputation, is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second-hand copies. Please get in touch for details
Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations
A wood engraving by Hilary Paynter illustrates Adam Sisman’s article on The Last Days of Hitler in Slightly Foxed Issue 61
Slightly Foxed Issue 60 features the illustration ‘Office Life’ by Posy Simmonds
Christopher Robbins’s article on Finnegans Wake was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 22
Angie Lewin is a printmaker and was the cover artist for Slightly Foxed Issue 27
James Nunn provided a pastiche of Eric Ravilious for the cover of Slightly Foxed Issue 17
Maggie Fergusson’s article on Flowers for Mrs Harris was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 20
Nigel Andrew’s article on The Tortoise and the Hare was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 60
Other Links
The shortlist for the 2018 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize.The award party will be held at Maggs Bros
A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found on our website: Stockists
For subscriptions to Slightly Foxed magazine, visit www.foxedquarterly.com
Thanks to
Angie Lewin, speaking at the Slightly Foxed Readers’ Day 2018 at the Art Workers’ Guild in London.
Music & Sound Effects Blue Jeans courtesy of FreeSfx.co.uk
Production Credits The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable
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