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Billed as 'The real reader's quarterly' there is always something to delight in in Slightly Foxed. This issue had more than the usual number of gems - articles on: '1066 & All That'; the novels of Georgette Heyer; James Thurber; Anthony Powell's 'Dance to the music of time' sequence; and perhaps best of all all about Edmund 'Clerihew' Bentley I quote ...
"The Art of Biography, Is different to Geography. Geography is about Maps, But Biography is about Chaps."
Plus I've discovered another Italian crime novel writer (Leonardo Sciascia) to track down. Excellent stuff. ( )
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With mist obsuring the dome of St Paul's and winter closing in, it seems a long time since we were driving through lush, sunlit Devon lanes to the launch of the Autumn issue at the (tiny) Big Red Sofa bookshop in Chagford, right on the edge of Dartmoor.
From the editors.
There's a wooden ruler in our kitchen drawer that lists the Kings and Queens of England.
For pheasant read peasant.
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But just the thing perhaps for a sutably frosty Christmas morning after a walk?
"The Art of Biography,
Is different to Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about Chaps."
Plus I've discovered another Italian crime novel writer (Leonardo Sciascia) to track down. Excellent stuff. ( )