Erskine Childers by Jim Ring is available directly from publishers Faber & Faber

Second-hand copies of Anne Fadiman’s Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader are available. Please get in touch for details

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

James Lees Milne’s memoirs are out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second hand copies. Please get in touch for details

Veronika Hyks reads Liz Robinson’s article Kindred Spirits, which can be read in full here

The article on The British Seagull, The Best Outboard Motor for the World was written by Ben Hopkinson and appeared in Issue 26 of Slightly Foxed

The article on Modesty Blaise was written by Amanda Theunissen and appeared in Issue 11 of Slightly Foxed

The article on Georgette Heyer was written by Julia Keay and appeared in Issue 16 of Slightly Foxed

The articles on Proust were written by Anthony Wells and appeared in Issues 56, 57 and 58 of Slightly Foxed

The article on M. R. James was written by Tim Mackintosh-Smith and appeared in Issue 4 of Slightly Foxed

Jim Ring’s articles have appeared in Issues 14, 18, 27 and 43 of Slightly Foxed. His article on Swallows and Amazons can be read here, and on Erskine Childers here

Granta’s Share a Pint campaign with the NHS, promoting Rose George’s book Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood

The Leaping Hare at Wyken Vinyards

Anthea Bell obituary

Reading music ‘Trio for Piano, Violin and Viola’ by Kevin MacLeod www.incompetech.com with thanks to freesfx.co.uk

Reading sound effects ‘Pendulum Slow Ticking’ by Klankbeeld with thanks to freesound.org