4: Viewing Is Essential

By Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's Quarterly

Slightly Foxed

15/02/19·31m 53s

Gail, Hazel and Jennie talk to the artist and illustrator (and master of pastiche) David Eccles about the craft of marrying image and text. The actress Petra Markham takes to the airwaves with Posy Simmonds, and the printmaker Angie Lewin recalls her experience of being commissioned for a Slightly Foxed cover.

Books Mentioned

Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler

Richard Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press & A Parcel of Time

Gwen Raverat, Period Piece

E. H. Shepard, Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life

A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Christopher Matthew, Now We are Sixty, with decorations by David Eccles

The Slightly Foxed Cubs edition of The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff will be published in September 2019

Posy Simmond’s latest book, Cassandra Darke

Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico is also known as Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, and is available in a single volume together with Mrs Harris Goes to New York.

Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare

Mathias Enard, Compass

Kathleen Hale’s autobiography, A Slender Reputation, is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second-hand copies. Please get in touch for details

Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations

A wood engraving by Hilary Paynter illustrates Adam Sisman’s article on The Last Days of Hitler in Slightly Foxed Issue 61

Slightly Foxed Issue 60 features the illustration ‘Office Life’ by Posy Simmonds

Christopher Robbins’s article on Finnegans Wake was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 22

Angie Lewin is a printmaker and was the cover artist for Slightly Foxed Issue 27

James Nunn provided a pastiche of Eric Ravilious for the cover of Slightly Foxed Issue 17

Maggie Fergusson’s article on Flowers for Mrs Harris was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 20

Nigel Andrew’s article on The Tortoise and the Hare was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 60