This Folio Life: Mystery Train, Greil Marcus and Dorothea Lange
Greil Marcus on one of his favourite images from the Folio edition of Mystery Train, and the family connection to its photographer, the great Dorothea ...
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This Folio Life: 10 recommended non-fiction reads for the interesting times we are living in
At the moment, we are all trying to navigate our way around a strange, new world, looking for guidance and inspiration as we do so. ...
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This Folio Life: Bringing Madame Bovary to life
Folio's stunning limited edition of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary features a series of breathtaking oil paintings from French artist Nushka. In this blog, Nushka explains ...
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This Folio Life: Creating beautiful books in lockdown
From selecting the binding materials and foils, to signing off artwork, photographs and illustrations, Folio books are the result of many months of hands-on collaboration. ...
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This Folio Life: Recreating one of literature’s most imaginative books
In our latest blog we explore an ancient bookmaking technique that ensured our limited edition The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was a ...
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This Folio Life: Bringing The Neverending Story to life
Artist Marie-Alice Harel had always wanted to illustrate The Neverending Story. So, when the commission came up to illustrate the Folio edition, she knew she had to do it – despite her ever-increasing workload! In this blog, Harel explores her inspiration and process illustrating Michael Ende’s magical story.
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This Folio Life: The Folio Society’s Reading Room Garden
Reading and nature are tried-and-tested tonics for the hustle and bustle of modern life and something truly magical takes place when they collide. That’s why we are thrilled to sponsor The Folio Society Reading Room Garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
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This Folio Life: Meeting the Strugatsky Brothers
In this blog, Former Publisher of Orion Publishing Group and Chair of Gollancz, Malcolm Edwards, tells the fascinating story of meeting Arkady and Boris Strugatsky at the 1987 World Science Fiction convention in Brighton, on their last trip outside of Russia.