Slightly Foxed 55: Billiards, Tobacco and Wine
by Gail Pirkis (Editor), Hazel Wood (Editor)
Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's Quarterly (55)
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- Slightly Foxed 55: Billiards, Tobacco and Wine
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- Slightly Foxed 55: Billiards, Tobacco and Wine
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- 2017-09
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- BB ('The little grey men' | 'Down the bright stream'); Cuthbert Bede ('Mr Verdant Green' stories); Alan Bradley ('Flavia de Luce' series); Faber and Faber (life at); George Gissing ('New Grub Strret'); Geoffrey Hill ('Collected poems') (show all 16); Richard Hillary ('The last enemy'); Eva Hoffman ('Lost in translation'); Aldous Huxley ('The devils of Loudun'); Margaret Irwin ('Good Queen Bess' series); Rudyard Kipling (Indian stories and poems); André Maurois ('The silence of Colonel Bramble'); George Moore ('Esther Waters'); Italo Svevo ('Zeno's conscience'); Charlotte M. Yonge ('The little duke'); Felix Youssoupoff ('Lost splendour')
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- News came recently that sales of printed books have grown for the first time in four years while sales of ebooks have declined.
From the editors.
Coming to the end of a really good book can pitch you into a slough of despond.
Billiards, tobacco and wine. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But when the time came for me to leap, though Ted by then was no longer around, it wasn't wholly coincidental that I found the courage to do so, or that I ended up in Devon, not far from where he lived and farmed, traces of him, bristling as they do in the handwriting of his poem, everwhere.
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