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  1. The Silk Roads

    The Silk Roads

    Peter Frankopan

    £190.00

    The Silk Roads is Peter Frankopan’s revolutionary world history told from the perspective of the East: a beautiful, illustrated Folio edition of an international bestseller.

  2. The Six Wives of Henry VIII

    The Six Wives of Henry VIII is Antonia Fraser’s groundbreaking historical biography of England’s most famous royal consorts – a critically acclaimed international bestseller presented in a lavishly illustrated Folio edition.

  3. Bestsellers
    Dominion

    Dominion

    Tom Holland

    £80.00

    Dominion is Tom Holland’s epic exploration of how everything we do has been shaped by Christianity, a subversive sect that grew to a religion. This beautiful Folio Society edition has a striking binding design by Noma Bar with 24 pages of colour images.

  4. Pandaemonium

    Pandaemonium

    Humphrey Jennings

    £125.00

    Gathering hundreds of voices, Pandaemonium is Humphrey Jennings's eyewitness account of the rise of the machine age – a superb, illustrated Folio Society edition of the book that inspired the London Olympics Opening Ceremony.

  5. Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    Anne Applebaum

    £110.00

    Iron Curtain is Anne Applebaum’s landmark study of Eastern Europe under Soviet rule. An outstanding Folio edition with newly selected pictures, plus an exclusive introduction on chilling parallels with the invasion of Ukraine.

  6. India

    India

    John Keay

    £190.00

    Spanning 5,000 years from the Bronze Age to the present, India: A History is John Keay’s masterful story of the subcontinent; revised and updated for the Folio Society in this fully illustrated edition.

  7. A Bright Shining Lie

    A Bright Shining Lie

    Neil Sheehan

    £190.00

    A Bright Shining Lie is Neil Sheehan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Vietnam War told through lieutenant colonel John Paul Vann, with a new introduction by George Packer for The Folio Society.

  8. China

    China

    John Keay

    £190.00

    Covering 3,000 years, John Keay’s China: A History chronicles one of the world’s great civilisations, from Confucius to Mao, in an exclusively updated Folio Society edition with lavish colour illustrations and a new introduction by the author.

  9. New
    A Night to Remember​

    Relive the gripping story of the Titanic’s final hours with A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, now in a beautifully crafted Folio Society edition. Featuring an introduction by historian Dominic Sandbrook, this is the definitive book of that fateful night, capturing the drama and tragedy of the passengers onboard.

  10. The Origins of Totalitarianism

    Published by Folio in its first-ever illustrated edition, Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism is a ground-breaking study of how the Nazi and Soviet regimes came to power, which speaks directly to our own age.

  11. Band of Brothers

    Band of Brothers

    Stephen E. Ambrose

    £75.00

    With a new introduction by Cole C. Kingseed – Dick Winters’ biographer – Tom Hanks’ original foreword, and a brand-new picture selection, this Folio edition of Stephen E. Ambrose’s best-selling Band of Brothers is a triumph.