
Winners of the Anthony Trollope Prize Draw
[caption id="attachment_3058" align="alignright" width="230"] The special hand-bound limited edition of The Duke's Children[/caption] On 23 April the British Library hosted an evening dedicated to the ...
[caption id="attachment_3058" align="alignright" width="230"] The special hand-bound limited edition of The Duke's Children[/caption] On 23 April the British Library hosted an evening dedicated to the ...
How Wellington's former home testifies to status in Britain and beyond. [caption id="attachment_2916" align="alignleft" width="350"] Waterloo Gallery, Apsley House. (© English Heritage)[/caption] The 1st Duke ...
How fear runs through his timeless short stories, and his only completed novel. ‘Horror and fatality’, writes Poe in ‘Metzengerstein’, his first published short story, ...
Senior Picture Editor Julie McMahon researched the photographs featured in our edition of Shackleton’s Boat Journey. Here she tell the story behind one crucial and seemingly ...
When Lord Gavron, known to everyone at The Folio Society, from top to bottom, as Bob, died so suddenly on 7 February, there ...
The Folio edition of The Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass in the US and Canada) includes illustrations drawn by the brilliant Philip Pullman. In this blog, Pullman explains for Folio readers how he created these incredible black-and-white images, and the inspiration behind them.
It’s that time of year when millions of young people are tentatively peeling open envelopes that will lead them towards the next stage in their life. Whatever the outcome, the years of study and surviving the stressful exam period are worthy of celebration … and what better gift than a beautiful book?
Award-winning illustrator James Albon captured the eccentricities of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad with a series of stylish colour and black-and-white lino-cuts. Here, Albon shares his artistic process and how he approached this exciting project.