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Posted on 08/09/2016
London, 8 September 2016: The Folio Society and House of Illustration announce the 2017 Book Illustration Competition to illustrate ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen (#BIC2017). The Book Illustration Co …
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The Nursery Rhyme Book Edited by Andrew Lang Introduced by Michael Rosen Illustrated by Debra McFarlane with additional illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke ‘The point about these rhymes is to enjoy them …
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The Last White Rose Desmond Seward With a new foreword by the author ‘Gripping and enthralling … no writer of fiction, however imaginative, could dream up more spellbinding plots than what actually ha …
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The King Must Die Mary Renault Introduced by Robert Lane Fox Illustrated by Geoff Grandfield ‘One of the truly fine historical novels of modern times. Not since Robert Graves’s I, Claudius has there b …
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present Roy Porter Introduced by Jeremy Farrar ‘A superb book – fluent, lucid, scary and even funny’ the sunday time …
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The Folio Science Fiction Anthology Edited and introduced by Brian W. Aldiss Illustrated by Florian Schommerr ‘Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential, and one of the best, science-fiction writers …
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Rubicon The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic Tom Holland Introduced by the author ‘Explosive stuff … Concentrating on the characters, plotting their interactions, rise and fall with considera …
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Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb François-René de Chateaubriand Translated by R. Baldick Introduced by Philip Mansel ‘I will be Chateaubriand or nothing’ victor hugo Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is …
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African Folktales Selected and retold by Roger D. Abrahams Foreword by Wole Soyinka Introduced by Roger D. Abrahams Illustrated by Keith Hau ‘Earthy, comedic, and covering a wide spectrum, [these] tal …
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Manhattan ’45 Jan Morris ‘A bitter-sweet love poem to New York &elip; not only should you have been there, but you are’ vanity fair Travel writer Jan Morris opens her account of New York’s …
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Joseph Banks Patrick O’Brian Introduced by Peter Campbell ‘Banks was a passionate naturalist … To assist him, he recruited a naturalist, a clerk and assistant artist and two artist-draughtsmen. To loo …
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Selected Poems Emily Dickinson Selected and Introduced by Lavinia Greenlaw Illustrated by Jane Lydbury ‘Dickinson is one of very few poets whose work repays countless readings, through a lifetime’ joy …
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James Joyce the latest addition to FOLIO COLLECTABLES ‘‘Editions of the world’s great literature, in a format worthy of the contents, at a price within the reach of everyman’ CHARLES EDE, founder of T …
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A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Introduction by Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal Illustrated by Quentin Blake ‘Lively and provocative … Mr Hawking clearly possesses a natural teacher’s gifts …
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Love Lies Bleeding Edmund Crispin Illustrated by A. Richard Allen ‘A master of the whodunit … he combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue and a touch of hilarity’ the new york times Love Lies B …
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