Our Editor: Sue Bradbury

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ue joined The Folio Society as membership secretary when she was just 25 years old. That was longer ago than she cares to admit and after many years working in and then running the editorial department, she became Editor-in-Chief. Having taught in both Spain and the Canary Islands, Sue is a lover of all things Spanish and South American, including playing flamenco guitar and dancing the tango. As well as her work for Folio, she has translated the plays of Lorca and published her own novel.

Sue’s book recommendations:


Our editor image The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.

Robertson Davies is one of those authors who is a revelation: when you discover him, you can't understand why it took you so long and you can't wait to thrust him onto other people. Rob Davies was a character himself - larger than life, beard like a prophet, fascinating background in the theatre which resonates through all his work. He is the only writer I know (except Dickens perhaps) to translate theatrical machinery into novelistic terms. He was a long-term member of Folio, and became a friend. Getting this trilogy between Folio covers is long-overdue: I'm just glad we got there at last.

Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats.

Eavan Bolland once said 'I like a poem you can grow old in'. Yeats is one of those poets – he goes on enriching you throughout your life: you fall in love with all the Celtic twilight when you're in your teens and with the spare brilliance of his thoughts on the human condition.

The Life of Herod by Josephus

What an immense and interesting challenge it is to try to discover the human being behind the ‘monster’ we know who massacred innocent babies. Josephus himself is such a fascinatingly ambivalent writer, so this book provides us with two arresting personalities, not just one.


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