Our Editorial Team

David Hayden, our Publishing Director, works with an energetic team of editors led by Publisher, Catherine Taylor, whose varied career has encompassed the British Library, Amazon and Microsoft, and Neil Titman, our Managing Editor, formerly a lecturer in French and Latin literature.


The highest editorial standards


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The Folio Society’s editorial standards are the envy of other publishers. Each of our books is fully proof-read at least twice to remove errors, while the editors confirm all facts – work often done hastily or not at all elsewhere. Our editors always champion the reader, by ensuring the best possible text and in commissioning maps, footnotes or a new index. Catherine and David give particular consideration to the search for the perfect introducer. At The Folio Society we select leading figures in the academic and literary world who act as the reader’s companion, whetting the appetite for the book and setting the work in context. Writers of the calibre of Peter Ackroyd, Max Hastings, Colm Tóibín, A. S. Byatt and Julian Barnes are amongst those who have recently contributed to Folio publications.


Carefully researched images and newly commissioned illustrations


The editors work closely with our picture researchers in the wild truffle hunt that ensues when we begin preparing a Folio edition. We specialise in uncovering rarely seen, newly discovered and hitherto unseen images through thorough research, hard work and, in some cases, the liberal application of charm that is required to unlock private archives.

The Folio Society has a happy tradition of working with both the best of established illustrators and the most exciting of emerging artists. Living authors work closely with us to ensure that the drawings, oils, watercolours or engravings that grace the book are true to the spirit and letter of their vision. We have letters of thanks from Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie and John Julius Norwich, among others, that testify to our efforts in helping authors realise their words in images in sensitive and compelling ways.

 
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