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The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler was The Folio Society’s fifteenth book. It was published by The Society in 1949. The first ever edition dates back to the mid 17th century. Much beloved by fishermen, fisherw… more →
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The Dark is Rising
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wrote 5 days ago: I began re-reading Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising quintet at Christmas. I was staying at my Mum’s … more →
Eugene Onegin in the Park
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wrote 1 week ago: Today I took Coco and I to one of my favourite parks, which is about 10-15 minutes away from my hous … more →
Murder in the Library: An A-Z of Crime Fiction
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wrote 2 weeks ago: What is Murder in the Library? ‘Murder in the Library will take you on a fascinating journey t … more →
My Time Lost in Books...
wrote 3 weeks ago: Like I said in my post “The Five Books That Made Me” I can get pretty sentimental about … more →
The Butterfly that Stamped
wrote 3 weeks ago: Then the butterfly stamped. The Djinns jerked the Palace and the gardens a thousand miles into the a … more →
Embossed leather or Gorilla glass
wrote 1 month ago: I bought this book fifty years ago, from a second hand bookshop in town. At first I thought it might … more →
The Once & Future King
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wrote 1 month ago: When people ask me to name my favourite book (why, oh why, do people insist on asking this awful que … more →
The Cat that Walked by Himself
wrote 1 month ago: ‘I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me’ Illustration for The … more →
You Are What You Read: The Nutritionist's Guide to Readers
wrote 1 month ago: How do you read? We posed the question on Unprintable Episode 9 and discovered we had … more →
Just So Stories Binding Design
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wrote 1 month ago: Binding design for the limited edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, published by The … more →
The Beginning of the Armadillos
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wrote 1 month ago: ‘Everything has its proper name. I shall call it “Armadillo” till I found out the … more →
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
wrote 1 month ago: Still ran Dingo — Tired-Dog Dingo — hungrier and hungrier… and wondering when in t … more →
Lick My Words: Angela Carter's The Erl King
wrote 1 month ago: The beautiful Folio Society edition of Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber and other stories … more →
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon - Folio Society
wrote 1 month ago: Edward Gibbon’s epic history may be flawed (his hostility towards the Byzantine Empire is sadd … more →
"Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn" - World Poetry Day 2013
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wrote 1 month ago: This is a line by graveyard poet Thomas Gray (a friend of Horace Walpole, in whose former villa I co … more →
The Elephant's Child
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wrote 2 months ago: So he pulled, and the Elephant’s Child pulled, and the Crocodile pulled… Illustration fo … more →
The Literature Prize is up and running, but is now called The Folio Prize
wrote 2 months ago: Good news. There’s a new literary prize in the firmament. It used to be known simply as the Li … more →
New Literary Prize
wrote 2 months ago: In the Guardian, Mark Brown reports the creation of a fiction prize sponsored by the Folio Society. … more →
Leopard
wrote 2 months ago: This is the original drawing which was translated into the limited edition etching for Just So Stori … more →
