Folio News : September 2009

Anglo-Saxon hoard declared "treasure"

A find to rival Sutton Hoo in importance

'This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England… as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries. Absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lin...read more
last modified: Mon, Sep 12th 2011

Simon Callow's Introduction to The Picture of Dorian Gray in The Guardian

Folio edition among the bestsellers of new membership year

The Guardian newspaper will feature an edited version of Simon Callow's specially commissioned introduction to The Picture of Dorian Gray on Saturday 19 September. The Folio edition of Oscar Wilde...read more

last modified: Mon, Sep 12th 2011

New Darwin film opens Toronto International Film Festival

'Creation' tells the story of how Darwin came to write On the Origin of Species

The 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival opened September 10 with Creation, a new British film that focuses on the period of Charles Darwin's life in the 1850s, between the dea...read more

last modified: Mon, Sep 12th 2011

Lark Rise to Candleford Exhibition

Lark Rise: Art & Record

A new exhibition opens in The Museum in the Park, Stroud on Saturday 5 September. It features wood engravings by Sue Scullard, the illustrator to...read more

last modified: Mon, Sep 12th 2011

J. K. Rowling chooses Leaves of Grass as favourite poem

New Folio edition of Whitman's classic available in October

J. K. Rowling has named ‘Of the terrible doubt of appearances’ from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass as her favourite poem, choosing it for inclusion in a fundraising anthology for th...read more

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