Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. We follow his unsuccessful attempts to become an academic, his aspirations to be a Man of Letters, and his eventual encounters with the famous, including some memorable meetings with royalty.

To become a subscriber to Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly Magazine, please visit our subscriptions page. Before he came to London, as one of the "Best of Young British" novelists, and Literary Editor of the Spectator, we meet another A. When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. Washington Independent Review of Books * A must-read for devotees of Wilson's prolific literary output, Confessions is a rambling, poetry-infused remembrance of promises made, broken and reshaped along the way. He is proficient equally as a biographer, novelist, historian, essayist, editor and literary journalist.

There’s plenty more he might have said about the relationship – and about his happy second marriage. The Hogarth Press where I’m working, is in the heart of the literary world, with authors coming in all the time. His last book The Mystery of Charles Dickens was published in 2020 to great critical acclaim and is at present being dramatized by Andrew Davies for British television. We meet his father, the Managing Director of Wedgwood, the grotesque teachers at his first boarding school, and the dons of Oxford - one of whom, at the age of just 20, he married, the renowned Shakespearean scholar, the late Katherine Duncan-Jones. At every turn of this reminiscence, Wilson is baffled by his earlier self – whether he is flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood.

A “ceramic genius” from a family of seven generations of potters, Norman was headhunted by Wedgwood and became its managing director. The princesses, dons, paedophiles and journos who cross the pages are as sharply drawn as figures in Wilson’s early comic fiction. His early life takes in life at boarding school and also the influence of his parents – his father, Norman Wilson was the Managing Director of Wedgwood in the 1950s.Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. Jacqueline Wilson, bestselling children's author * Deliciously delicate barbs are scattered throughout the pages. Male friendships mattered more to him, that with Josiah Wedgwood (Uncle Josie to the three Wilson kids) in particular. The princesses, dons, paedophiles and journos who cross the pages are as sharply drawn as figures in Wilson's early comic fiction.