This Folio Life: The Nightmare of the Carnival
Comedian and actor, Frank Skinner, was one of the judges at last year’s V&A Illustration Awards. Frank’s passion for literature and for all things Folio ...
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This Folio Life: On Rereading Sappho
Part of preparing our edition of Sappho’s poetry involved engaging two separate proofreaders, both of whom were competent readers of Ancient Greek, to check both ...
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This Folio Life: Looking back at our books of 2018
Last year saw Folio publish many amazing books: from old English poetry to Ursula K. Le Guin, to an original title from illustrator Charles van ...
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This Folio Life: Bringing different styles to Evelyn Waugh
Folio has published several editions of Evelyn Waugh novels throughout our 70-year history. Different styles of artwork lend themselves well to his stylistically diverse novels ...
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This Folio Life: Illustrating the rhythm and movement of poetry
Artist Lesley Barnes has created more than 50 charming illustrations to bring The Folio Book of Children’s Poetry to life. In this blog, she explains ...
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Reproducing Songs of Innocence and of Experience from the finest copy
Folio’s edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is reproduced from one of the finest surviving copies, known as ‘Copy W’, now held at King’s College, University of Cambridge. In this blog, Folio’s Production Director Kate Grimwade explains how she matched our edition as closely as possible to Blake’s original manuscript.
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‘These illustrations look like the inside of my own head’
In this blog, Becky Chambers, author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, shares her reaction to seeing some of Zoë van Dijk’s vivid illustrations for the Folio edition of her incredible novel.
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Which Marvel Hero would you invite for the holidays?
Depending on your family traditions and the extent of your invites, festive dinners can either be a raucous free-for-all or a calm culinary extravaganza. But whatever the scene, every dining table would be livened up with a Marvel Super Hero. From extraordinary strength to healing potions and a magic hammer, scroll down to discover who could be tucking into turkey at your house this year.