[2] Notable authors to have written for the magazine include Penelope Lively, Richard Mabey, Diana Athill, Ronald Blythe and Robert Macfarlane.

[3] Instead of books currently marketed by big publishers, Slightly Foxed tends to examine older and more obscure titles.

Its title comes from the term "slightly foxed" as a description of a book's physical quality, commonly used in the second-hand book trade to describe minor foxing, the occurrence of brown spots on older paper.

[10] In 2023, the prize was won jointly by Katherine Rundell for her biography of John Donne, Super-Infinite, and Osman Yousefzada for his memoir The Go-Between.

[11] Winners from previous years include Edmund Gordon for The Invention of Angela Carter [12] and Alan Cumming for Not My Father’s Son.