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Editor's Note
Synopsis
Book Details
Production Details
Bound in printed and blocked textured paperPrinted in black and gold ink
Printed endpapers
Printed and blocked slipcase
Dimensions
8¾ × 5½ inches (22.2 × 14 cm)Font
Typeset in BelyPages
240Author
Iain BanksIllustrated by
Darren HopesIllustration
6 double-page colour illustrationsBlack & white title page illustration; 5 black and white tailpiece illustrations
Publication Date
15/09/2026The Wasp Factory
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About the Illustrator
Working in illustration for over 30 years, Darren has collaborated with hundreds of clients in the fields of publishing, editorial, advertising, packaging and interior design, lectured and run workshops in graphic design, illustration and photography, and has featured in many art and design publications. He also works on fine art and personal projects and sells art to, and takes on bespoke commissions for, collectors. Currently living on the Isle of Wight having previously worked from studios in Devon and Cornwall, he takes inspiration from the landscape and nature that surrounds him, informing his idiosyncratic visual language which he uses to explore the beauty and the dark in the every day. The Wasp Factory (Folio 2026) is the second book he has illustrated for the Folio Society having previously illustrated Alan Garner's The Owl Service (Folio 2013).
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About the Illustrator
Working in illustration for over 30 years, Darren has collaborated with hundreds of clients in the fields of publishing, editorial, advertising, packaging and interior design, lectured and run workshops in graphic design, illustration and photography, and has featured in many art and design publications. He also works on fine art and personal projects and sells art to, and takes on bespoke commissions for, collectors. Currently living on the Isle of Wight having previously worked from studios in Devon and Cornwall, he takes inspiration from the landscape and nature that surrounds him, informing his idiosyncratic visual language which he uses to explore the beauty and the dark in the every day. The Wasp Factory (Folio 2026) is the second book he has illustrated for the Folio Society having previously illustrated Alan Garner's The Owl Service (Folio 2013).
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About the Illustrator
Working in illustration for over 30 years, Darren has collaborated with hundreds of clients in the fields of publishing, editorial, advertising, packaging and interior design, lectured and run workshops in graphic design, illustration and photography, and has featured in many art and design publications. He also works on fine art and personal projects and sells art to, and takes on bespoke commissions for, collectors. Currently living on the Isle of Wight having previously worked from studios in Devon and Cornwall, he takes inspiration from the landscape and nature that surrounds him, informing his idiosyncratic visual language which he uses to explore the beauty and the dark in the every day. The Wasp Factory (Folio 2026) is the second book he has illustrated for the Folio Society having previously illustrated Alan Garner's The Owl Service (Folio 2013).
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About the Illustrator
Working in illustration for over 30 years, Darren has collaborated with hundreds of clients in the fields of publishing, editorial, advertising, packaging and interior design, lectured and run workshops in graphic design, illustration and photography, and has featured in many art and design publications. He also works on fine art and personal projects and sells art to, and takes on bespoke commissions for, collectors. Currently living on the Isle of Wight having previously worked from studios in Devon and Cornwall, he takes inspiration from the landscape and nature that surrounds him, informing his idiosyncratic visual language which he uses to explore the beauty and the dark in the every day. The Wasp Factory (Folio 2026) is the second book he has illustrated for the Folio Society having previously illustrated Alan Garner's The Owl Service (Folio 2013).
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About the Illustrator
Working in illustration for over 30 years, Darren has collaborated with hundreds of clients in the fields of publishing, editorial, advertising, packaging and interior design, lectured and run workshops in graphic design, illustration and photography, and has featured in many art and design publications. He also works on fine art and personal projects and sells art to, and takes on bespoke commissions for, collectors. Currently living on the Isle of Wight having previously worked from studios in Devon and Cornwall, he takes inspiration from the landscape and nature that surrounds him, informing his idiosyncratic visual language which he uses to explore the beauty and the dark in the every day. The Wasp Factory (Folio 2026) is the second book he has illustrated for the Folio Society having previously illustrated Alan Garner's The Owl Service (Folio 2013).
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About the Author
Iain Banks
Iain Banks (1954–2013) was a Scottish novelist educated on both the east and west coasts of Scotland. He studied at the University of Stirling, gaining a degree in English with Philosophy and Psychology and, while there, appeared as an extra in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. His first novel, The Wasp Factory (1984; Folio 2026), was published to widespread controversy. Described by one newspaper as a work of ‘unparalleled depravity’, it quickly established Banks as a bold new voice and has since come to be seen as one of the most distinctive novels of the late 20th century. Although Banks considered himself a science-fiction writer, he published his literary fiction without his middle initial, reserving Iain M. Banks for his science-fiction. Across his career, he wrote 14 literary novels, including The Crow Road, which was adapted for television by the BBC. He also wrote short stories, poetry and the travelogue Raw Spirit. His final novel, The Quarry, was published shortly after his death in 2013.