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

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