This Folio Life: The dark truths within dystopian literature
Dystopian fiction has rarely been more popular. So why now? And what can that popularity tell us about the dark side of human nature?
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This Folio Life: Documenting Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom
Documenting and exposing the cruelty of apartheid was a dangerous task. Folio’s edition of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom features the work of some of the most inspiring photographers of the time, who risked their lives for the iconic images they captured.
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This Folio Life: The pastels and poisons within Agatha Christie
In her fascinating blog post, artist Sally Dunne discusses her illustrations for Crooked House – an intense, messy process with a focus on the finer details of Christie's plot.
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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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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.