The Franchise Affair: A Mystery Without a Corpse
A masterful and chilling mystery (named by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as one of the 'Top One Hundred Crime Novels of All Time') ...
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The Wonderful Wizardry of Words
Writing in the Winter 2010/Spring 2011 edition of the Folio Magazine, Maria Tatar uncovers the real magic in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of ...
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‘A likely story – and probably true …’
Writing for the Autumn 2007 issue of the Folio Magazine, the writer and Observer film critic Philip French, who passed away in 2015, surveyed his ...
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How We See Frankenstein’s Creature
From its birth in the imagination of Mary Shelley, Frankenstein’s creature has taken on a life of its own as one of popular culture’s most ...
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Thursday, 29 October 2015
A few weeks ago I went to Bayeux for the first time. Culinary considerations aside, the main objective was of course the Tapestry, and I ...
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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.