My 2003 novel Foxy-T is now out of print, but tipped-off by a characteristically interesting post on print-runs and reprints by Charles Boyle of CBeditions, I found a small quantity of remaindered copies available for less than half-price…

UPDATE: Sorry to say that they’ve all gone...

This reminds me of something that the great London author Michael Moorcock once told me: that he hadn’t felt like a real writer until some of his books had been remaindered, and so were available in the places, and at the prices, where most people could buy their books.

So if you’re new to my work, ICYMI first time around, or if you’ve been meaning to read Foxy-T (or to give a copy to a friend!) for a while now, this could be your last opportunity to get hold of a new copy of the novel in paperback or any other format. UPDATE: Sorry to say that they’ve all gone...

At time of writing there are no plans for any reprints or new editions of Foxy-T.

Writing in the Herald on Sunday, Toby Litt said that Foxy-T was,

One of the best London novels you’ll ever get to read.

Here’s what some other critics said:

This is the real sound of the East End, and it deserves to be recognised. Hussain Ismail, The Lip Magazine

This is, in fact, the best book that has ever been written about Brick Lane. No doubt it would have won lots of prizes if the author had had a slightly different name. Anyway, it is about a community really, but it is based around two girls who work in a telephone and computer place off Cannon Street Road, the E-Z Call phone shop. There are all these dubious characters coming in who are out of young offenders institutes or whatever, people from the Bangladeshi community, and it’s really about the progress of these two girls, and the whole book is written in Bangladeshi idiom. It takes a while to get into, but then you do get into it and it’s an amazing tour de force. Roy Moxham, ‘Five Books’, The Browser

…this affectionate tale may tell you more about love, longing and ambition in the inner city than a dozen official reports. Indeed, some readers would argue that it captures the flavour of Asian lives in London E1 with more inside-track relish than another novel of 2003: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. Boyd Tonkin, Independent

There have been a few East London books — Manzu Islam’s Burrow, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, Farrukh Dhondy’s East End At Your Feet, there’s Claire Alexander’s sociological The Asian Gang; and there are more laddist, wide-boy fictions around — Londonstani, of course (though that’s about Hounslow) […] The book I like best is Tony White’s Foxy-T. Ventriloquism among the Cannon Street xeroxing machines, innit? Sukhdev Sandhu, 3am

“What’s your favourite British novel from the past ten years?” The other day I was with a group of friends, and someone posed this question. A few fairly obvious titles were suggested, which gave me time to think. And when it came my turn to speak, I said, “Foxy T by Tony White”. Toby Litt, The Guardian

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