Folio News : October 2009
A new BBC Radio 4 series celebrates forgotten classics
BBC Radio 4 has asked ten of Britain's leading authors to select books which they feel have achieved 'classic' status but which have fallen out of fashion or even out of print. Each author will pu...read more
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám now sold out
Our fastest-selling limited edition ever
In record-breaking time, our limited edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - launched in late September - has now sold out. The entire limitation of 1,000 was snapped up much more quickl...read moreThe Folio Society at the Frankfurt Book Fair
A Folio first as we join over 7,000 exhibitors at the world's largest book fair
For five days from 14 October, more than 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries and nearly 300,000 visitors made their way to the world's largest book fair, in Frankfurt, Germany. Opened by Chancello...read more
Man Booker winner takes Folio book as inspiration
Hilary Mantel cites Thomas Wolsey: his Life and Death
The Booker Prize judge Michael Prodger has drawn our attention to an article by Hilary Mantel in The Guardian in which she discusses her inspiration for her winning novel Wolf Hallread more
Wolf Hall wins Man Booker Prize
Congratulations to Hilary Mantel, winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall. Set in Tudor England, it is a fictional retelling of the life of Thomas Cromwell, advisor to...read more
Robert Frank exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum
Rarely reproduced photographs in Folio edition of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
A major exhibition devoted to Robert Fra...read more
Kelmscott Chaucer at the William Morris Gallery
Folio facsimile on display alongside original
A copy of the Folio Society facsimile edition of the Kelmscott Chaucer has gone on display at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, north-east London, where an original edition is held.
...read moreNew Exhibition in The Folio Society Gallery at the British Library
Opening night reception of 'In a Bloomsbury Square: T. S. Eliot the Publisher'
The British Library's exhibition celebrating T. S. Eliot as publisher, opened its doors on 14 September in The Folio Society Gallery.
As a poet, playwright and critic, Eliot's influenc...read more
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