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Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School
Since it was first published as a Slightly Foxed Edition in 2011 Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School has achieved the status of a minor classic. The limited edition sold out within a month and the subsequent paperback editions have now sold out too. So many of you enjoyed Mr Tibbits’s that we’re now reissuing it in hardback as our first Plain Foxed Edition.
Like many of the best books, this unusual history of an unusual school – St Philip’s prep-school in Kensington, founded in 1934 by Catholic convert Richard Tibbits and still going strong today – is hard to classify. ‘As you live through its story in these chapters,’ the author promises her readers, ‘you’ll be taken on a meander through the twentieth century. War, rationing, smog, mini-skirts, maxi-skirts, strikes, Thatcherism, the first computer . . .’ Enough to say that for anyone who has enjoyed Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall or Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s, anyone who loves to laugh yet feels the poignancy of the passage of time, this book will be a treat.
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A selection of titles featured in the quarterly are now available from our online shop.
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Out now.
SFE No. 35
Anthony Rhodes
It’s hard to imagine that anyone who took part in the disaster of Dunkirk could write an amusing book about it.
But that is what Anthony Rhodes has done in Sword of Bone . . .
From £16
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The Carey Novels
Ronald Welch’s 12 Carey novels follow the fortunes of the same family from their involvement in the Crusades to their service in the First World War. Grippingly plotted and scrupulously researched, together they join up the dots of English history in a remarkably vivid and human way.
Single titles from £16
Full set from £180
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Michael Barber hangs out on the Maginot Line • Ursula Buchan follows Montrose to the Borders • Patrick Welland explains the Singapore Grip • Amanda Theunissen meets a revolutionary with a sense of fun • Henry Jeffreys relives his university days with David Lodge • Daisy Hay finds Mary Wollstonecraft very contemporary • Derek Collett sits in on some psychiatric sessions • Victoria Neumark asks ‘Goodbye to all what?’ • Derek Parker goes backstage with some extremely old actors • and much, much more . . .
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The perfect introduction to a world of good reading.
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New!
Our annual calendar for 2017, featuring another 12 favourite covers from back issues of the quarterly, including Quentin Blake, James Nunn, Ed Kluz, Angie Lewin, Sue Macartney-Snape . . .
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Free Ticket Offer
Forty Years On: Rose Tremain in conversation
7pm, Thursday 29 September
The British Library Conference Centre
In conversation with the RSL’s Literary Director, Maggie Fergusson, Rose Tremain reflects on forty years of writing. She talks about her latest novel, The Gustav Sonata, why she searches for subjects outside her own experience, why it’s difficult for readers to surrender to short stories, and why, even in a novel, truth is all.
Those interested in attending should email the RSL info@rsliterature.org
Places are limited and will be offered on a first come, first served basis.
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The Digital Fox
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all@foxedquarterly.com
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