This Folio Life: The pastels and poisons within Agatha Christie
Sally Dunne discusses how her illustrations are the result of an intense, messy process – but with a real attention to the details still evident in Agatha Christie’s Crooked House.
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This Folio Life: Andrew Chaikin on picturing the Apollo moon missions
Working with Folio on this new illustrated edition, which comes more than a quarter century after the book’s original release, gave author Andrew Chaikin a chance to re-immerse himself in the moon voyages, this time with a combination of verbal and visual storytelling.
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This Folio Life: To Serve Two Masters
How do you even begin to illustrate The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical and subversive Russian masterpiece? Artist Peter Suart talks us through his in-depth research and various inspirations behind the artwork in this Folio edition.
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This Folio Life: Eileen Cooper on illustrating Angela Carter
Acclaimed British artist Eileen Cooper discusses illustrating her first novel, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, for The Folio Society, and reveals the process behind creating her stunning lino-cut artwork.
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This Folio Life: A Journal of the Plague Year revisited
We originally published Daniel Defoe’s description of living through the plague in 17th-century London way back in 1960 – the urge to revisit the book following the events of COVID-19 during the past year was irresistible.
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This Folio Life: Illustrating Murakami’s riddles
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s magical realist books have sold millions of copies worldwide and earned him a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary authors. We were very excited indeed to be publishing his work, and Kafka on the Shore is the perfect introduction to a unique and addictive style. But how would we decipher this story of unsolved riddles in an illustrated edition?
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This Folio Life: Christmas and the Unicorn
Unicorns have not always been associated with glitter and sparkles. In fact, the beast held great religious significance in Western art before it was ever associated with youthfulness and innocence. Non-fiction publisher Mandy Kirkby traces the history of the unicorn, as told in John Cherry’s Mythical Beasts.
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This Folio Life: Painting The Living Mountain during lockdown
When Art Director Sheri Gee approached Rose Strang to illustrate The Living Mountain, the artist was thrilled. However, in order to carry out the commission, she would need to visit the mountains and there was the small issue of a national lockdown to overcome.