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Issue No. 18 had a lot to keep me gratified with several articles on favourite books and authors, the first of which is "The Sensation of Crossing the Street" with author Sue Gee writing about her first experience reading [Mrs Dalloway] in 1968; another article by ex-foreign correspondent Chris Bird, is about Ryszard Kapuściński's work, a recently discovered an now beloved author—which I should mention I first came across via the Folio Society and a gorgeous edition of Travels with Herodotus—which had me swearing I would eventually read his entire bibliography, or at the very least those books mentioned; The Emperor Shah of Shahs, Another Day of Life, The Soccer War, Imperium and The Shadow of the Sun. But then part of the fun of Slightly Foxed is reading fascinating articles about works I knew little to nothing about and may or may not read someday, with, among others, Memoirs of a Buccaneer: Dampier's New Voyage Round the World, 1697, Ernle Bradford's Ulysses Found, Ludwig Bemelmans's Hotel Splendide and a article about Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series, famous in the UK of course, and which gave me a long-time fan's insider perspective.
I could list what the contents of my first trial issue was, but then I might as well just supply a link to the recently published An Index to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly, published this year to mark their 10th anniversary. I'd barely finished reading that first trial issue that I became a subscriber and then set about collecting all the back issues I could get my hands on. These are, wonderfully enough, always available for purchase because kept in print by Slightly Foxed, but also found on the secondary market for the most part, though I'll have to obtain the first three years worth via SF directly as they are almost impossible to find on the net other than at impossibly inflated prices. One of the dangers once one gets addicted to these lovelies though, is that they also publish limited editions of otherwise out of print autobiographies that are imminently collectible, printed on the same creamy paper, in a small pocket-size cloth-bound hardcover format, and once those are sold out, available as equally appealing small paperback issues. I now have a full set of the quarterlies, starting from issue 16 to the latest, issue 41, and a growing collection of their SF editions. I alternate between reading the latest releases and catching up on the back issues, so these are now a permanent fixture in my bathroom. But wherever you end up keeping them in the house, once you start reading this little gem of a publication, odds are you'll want to keep reaching out for them again and again. ( )