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Contents From the Editors A Year in Barsetshire • DAISY HAY Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels On Juniper Hill • NICOLA CHESTER Flora Thompson, Lark Rise A Glorious Menagerie • ANE BOSTON Philippe Germond & Jacques Livet, An Egyptian Bestiary No Moral Compass • GUSTAV TEMPLE Patricia Highsmith, This Sweet Sickness Fulmar, Gannet and Puffin • MAGIE FERGUSON Karin Altenberg, Island of Wings The Art of Bookselling • CHRIS SAUNDERS Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop Not So Verray Parfit • SUE GAISFORD Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Knight’s Tale’ Fresh as Paint • ARIANE BANKES Julian Trevelyan, Indigo Days Hammering Away at Words • ANDREW NIXON The stories of Frank Key A Classical Mosaic • DAISY DUN Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine 5 7 14 19 26 31 36 42 48 53 60 3
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Contents Following the Music • SUZI FEAY Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams The Sins of the Father • HELEN MACEWAN Vyvyan Holland, Son of Oscar Wilde Writing under Occupation • TIM PEARS Ivo Andrić, Bosnian Chronicle A Fresh Take on the ’45 • URSULA BUCHAN Violet Jacob, Flemington Joy Undimmed • MATHEW LYONS John Masefield, The Midnight Folk Through a Glass, Madly • MARTIN SOREL Miguel Cervantes and the Glass Delusion Bibliography 64 69 75 82 87 92 95 Clare Curtis The Slightly Foxed Podcast A new episode of our podcast is available on the 15th of April, July, October and January. To listen, visit www.foxedquarterly.com/pod or search for Slightly Foxed on Audioboom, Apple Podcasts or your podcast app. Subscriber Benefits Slightly Foxed can obtain any books reviewed in this issue, whether new or second-hand. To enquire about a book, to access the digital edition of Slightly Foxed or to view a list of membership benefits, visit www.foxedquarterly.com/ members or contact the office: 020 7033 0258/office@foxedquarterly.com. 4

Contents

From the Editors A Year in Barsetshire • DAISY HAY

Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels

On Juniper Hill • NICOLA CHESTER

Flora Thompson, Lark Rise

A Glorious Menagerie • ANE BOSTON

Philippe Germond & Jacques Livet, An Egyptian Bestiary

No Moral Compass • GUSTAV TEMPLE

Patricia Highsmith, This Sweet Sickness

Fulmar, Gannet and Puffin • MAGIE FERGUSON

Karin Altenberg, Island of Wings

The Art of Bookselling • CHRIS SAUNDERS

Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

Not So Verray Parfit • SUE GAISFORD

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Knight’s Tale’

Fresh as Paint • ARIANE BANKES

Julian Trevelyan, Indigo Days

Hammering Away at Words • ANDREW NIXON

The stories of Frank Key

A Classical Mosaic • DAISY DUN

Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

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