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Slightly Foxed Editors Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood
Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood are founding editors of Slightly Foxed, the quarterly magazine and independent publishing house. As specialists in books that have stood the test of time even while falling out of fashion, Gail and Hazel bring us titles so good, they deserve to be heard as audiobooks, too. Books and Authors Recommended Humour My Grandmothers and I, Diana Holman-Hunt A Boy at the Hogarth Press, Richard Kennedy The Empress of Ireland, Christopher Robbins Natural History & the English Countryside Adrian Bell Trilogy: Corduroy, Silver Ley, The Cherry Tree James Rebanks: English Pastoral, A Shepherd’s Life Lark Rise to Candleford Trilogy, Flora Thompson: Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, Candleford Green The Brensham Trilogy, John Moore: Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village, The Blue Field Children’s Books BB (Denys Watchkins-Pitchford): The Little Grey Men, Down the Bright Stream Ronald Welch’s novels Rosemary Sutcliff’s Roman and post-Roman novels* Memoirs & Diaries Blue Remembered Hills, Rosemary Sutcliff A Late Beginner, Priscilla Napier A Sort of Life, Graham Green Roald Dahl: Boy, Going Solo The House of Elric, Gavin Maxwell Giving Up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel Conundrum, Jan Morris Nella Last’s War, Nella Last Recommended Audiobooks Richard Crompton’s Just William series, read by Martin Jarvis Anthony Trollope: The Barsetshire Chronicles, The Pallisers, read by *Timothy West Will She Do, Eileen Atkins, read by the author In My Mind’s Eye: A Thought Diary, Jan Morris, read by Phyllida Nash A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth For more information about Slightly Foxed, visit foxedquarterly.com. Who Are We? The Listening Books Podcast is hosted by audio producer Jessica Stone and is a production of Listening Books, a UK charity that provides an audiobook lending service for over 115,000 members who find that an illness, mental health, physical or learning disability affects their ability to read the printed word or hold a book. It’s simple to join. For more information, head to www.listening-books.org.uk. To purchase a gift membership, go directly to https://www.listening-books.org.uk/gift-membership We’d love to hear from you! Here’s a good place to review the podcast. You can also give us a shout on Twitter: @ListeningBooks, Or Instagram: @ListeningBooks, Or Facebook, And we also have some content on YouTube.
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