This Folio Life: Mapping Captain Cook
Maps are an incredibly important part of any edition that deals in exploration or travel. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s first voyage, ...
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The World’s Greatest Books … according to Folio
If bookshelves could talk, what would they ask to be filled with? Would they love to be weighed down with the words of Shakespeare, proudly ...
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This Folio Life: Selecting the best of horror
How do you choose the best of a genre? Pick your personal favourites; choose only those tales regarded as classics; or try to aim for ...
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This Folio Life: The story behind the cover of Bomber Command
For our new edition of Bomber Command, and Folio's first Max Hastings book, we wanted to find a striking image for our binding design. And ...
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This Folio Life: A tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin
When Ursula K. Le Guin passed away in January of this year, the world lost one of the most original and sophisticated authors of the ...
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This Folio Life: A blog 65 million years in the making
We asked American palaeontologist Steve Brusatte to ensure that the illustrations for Folio’s edition were as accurate as they could be while still reflecting the world of Crichton's Jurassic Park. Here, Steve talks us through this process.
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This Folio Life: Revisiting John Burningham’s classic illustrations
This time last year I was enormously fortunate to go to the house of Helen Oxenbury, one of my favourite children’s authors and illustrators, and the widow of John Burningham.
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This Folio Life: Illustrating Winston Churchill
“With most book covers, you're trying to convey a concept rather than a person, but this was the opposite,” says illustrator Peter Strain.