In Episode 3: Stet, Gail, Hazel and Anna discuss the art of editing with author and creative writing teacher Sue Gee, and Helen Bourne delves into the dark side of Beatrix Potter.
Books Mentioned
Our series of historical novels by Ronald Welch can be found here
Issue 60 of Slightly Foxed
Our series of Rosemary Sutcliff’s books will be published in September, starting with The Eagle of the Ninth
Sue Gee’s novels include Spring Will Be Ours (1988), Reading in Bed (2007) and Trio (2016). The Mysteries of Glass (2004) was longlisted for the Orange prize (now the Women’s Prize for Fiction)
Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love was edited by Gordon Lish and is available here
Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Mr Tod is available here
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Jeremy Fisher
Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Pigling Bland
Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester
Kate Atkinson’s novels include Transcription, Human Croquet, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Emotionally Weird
James Hamilton-Paterson, Gerontius
Stet by Diana Athill is out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Ronald Blythe’s Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year 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
The cover artist for the Summer issue of Slightly Foxed will be Chloe Cheese
Sue Gee’s articles have appeared in Issues 1, 5, 8, 14, 17, 18, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 42, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 58 and 60 of Slightly Foxed
Sue’s article on The Tale of Mr Tod, Potter’s Dark Materials, was published in Issue 1 of Slightly Foxed
Other Links
A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found here
Our partners include Gladstone’s Library, the London Library and many more. A full list of our partnerships can be found here
Sue Gee co-founded the creative writing course at Middlesex University with Carl Miller, and now teaches at the Faber Academy
Stet is an editorial term which means ‘let it stand’Ronald was a friend of painter John Nash
Music and sound effects:
Tawny owl hoot sound effects thanks to freesfx.co.uk
Eerie forest by Greg Swinford thanks to FreeSound
Woodland birdsong by Mike Stranks thanks to FreeSound
The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable.