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We are a unique and proudly independent publisher, creating beautiful books for 75 years. Made for book lovers, by booklovers. Get in touch with us via DM.

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🎂 COMPETITION 🎂 To celebrate our 75th anniversary, we’re launching the most exciting competition in Folio’s history. One lucky Folio fan will win their choice of 75 different Folio editions! To enter: RT this post and follow @foliosociety.
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**GIVEAWAY** The new TV adaption of #HisDarkMaterials starts tonight on the @BBC! To celebrate, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of our set of His Dark Materials SIGNED by Philip Pullman and Peter Bailey. RT to enter. Competition ends on 5 November. Best of luck!
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**GIVEAWAY** The new TV adaption of #HisDarkMaterials is on right now on @BBC! To celebrate, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of our set of His Dark Materials signed by Philip Pullman and Peter Bailey. RT to enter. Competition ends on 5 November.
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🎃 GIVEAWAY 🎃 To celebrate spooky season, we're giving one of you the chance to win a book of your choice from our gothic and horror collection. TO ENTER: retweet this post. Open internationally. Closes 23:59 1 November (UK time). T&Cs apply 👻
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*GIVEAWAY* Today is #WorldBookDay and to celebrate we are running a giveaway where the winner can choose any 3 titles from this stack! TO ENTER: follow @foliosociety and RT or comment with your favourite children's book character. Closes midnight 6 March, open worldwide.
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We love these 19th century Japanese spooky illustrations of the 12 different types of water spirits known to haunt outhouses and toilets.
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The Lord of the Rings by @JRRTolkien is now a lavishly illustrated limited edition with artwork by Alan Lee. This exquisite three-volume set is limited to 1,000 copies - each signed by the artist, with wonderful maps and an exclusive art print. #LOTR
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📚 GIVEAWAY 📚 It's National Book Lovers Day! To celebrate, we're giving one of you a chance to win a £100 Folio gift card. TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and retweet this post. Open internationally. Competition closes 23:59 (UK time) Sunday 13 August
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Take a look at this 17th century traveling library, which houses dozens of tiny books in a larger book-shaped case.
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Yes, you read that correctly. Notorious serial killer Ed Kemper voiced thousands of audiobooks in the 1980s as part of The Blind Project.
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🎂 COMPETITION 🎂 Our 75th anniversary competition closes at 5pm (UK time) on Monday! One lucky Folio fan will win their choice of 75 different Folio editions. To enter: RT this post and follow @foliosociety.
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With 44 integrated illustrations, our new edition of Letters of Vincent van Gogh partners his incredible paintings with his revelatory writing. Selected by Mark Roskill, this edition beautifully depicts van Gogh's fractured psyche and brilliant mind.
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'I rather grudgingly put electricity in there.' @neilhimself shows @Variety around the secretive space where he writes.
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📚 GIVEAWAY 📚 To celebrate National Book Lovers Day, we're giving one of you a chance to win a £100 Folio gift card. TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and retweet this post. Open internationally. Competition closes 23:59 (UK time) Sunday 13 August
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Today marks 175 years since Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death. To honor the master of macabre, we're launching a hauntingly exclusive Limited Edition of Tales of Mystery & Imagination at 4PM (UK time) on 31 Oct. Dare to join? 🖤👁️
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Happy birthday to @StephenKing! The Shining, his genre-changing tale of unquiet ghosts and simmering violence, is his 'crossroads novel' that reaches beyond pure horror. This haunting edition features illustrations by the award-winning @edwardkinsella.
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🎃 GIVEAWAY 🎃 To celebrate spooky season, we're giving one of you the chance to win a book of your choice from our gothic and horror collection. TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and retweet this post. Open internationally. Closes 23:59 (UK time) TONIGHT. T&Cs apply 👻
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Have you ever wondered how we block metallic lettering onto your lovely Folio book spines? We have the artwork design etched onto a metal block, like this one you can see for @neilhimself's #AmericanGods.
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🎂 COMPETITION 🎂 Our 75th anniversary competition closes TODAY at 5pm! One lucky Folio fan will win their choice of 75 different Folio editions. To enter: RT this post and follow @foliosociety.
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⚫ IT'S GIVEAWAY TIME! ⚫ To celebrate Dodie Smith's birthday, we're giving you a chance to win a copy of The Hundred and One Dalmatians signed by the artist, Sara Ogilvie. TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and RT this post. Closes 23:59 (UK time) 8 May. Open internationally.
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🎂 COMPETITION 🎂 Have you entered our 75th anniversary competition yet? One lucky Folio fan will win their choice of 75 different Folio editions! To enter: RT this post and follow @foliosociety.
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It's #WorldBookDay! We're celebrating by giving you the chance to win this stunning stack of Folio books - each one signed by their author or illustrator 🎉 Follow and RT by midnight Sunday 8 March for your chance to win!
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We are delighted to announce the publication of @neilhimself's Neverwhere! Illustrated by Chris Malbon (@melbs), this edition comes with 9 full-colour illustrations, 21 colour chapter openers and a topsy-turvy binding design.
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#Frankenstein is 200 years old this month, but it's not the only masterpiece Mary Shelley wrote. The Last Man is a multi-stranded apocalyptic story about a mysterious disease that devastates humankind, leaving one lone survivor.
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*GIVEAWAY* Folio's edition of #HowlsMovingCastle has been one of our best-sellers this year! And now, we are giving you the chance to win a copy exclusively signed by artist @maharelillo. RT by midnight 27 September to enter, open worldwide.
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Oscar Wilde was jailed 125 years ago today for 'gross indecency with men'. His two years of hard labour led him to write De Profundis, one of the greatest love letters ever written. Folio's new edition features archive photography selected by his grandson.
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.@neilhimself has announced who will play God in the upcoming TV adaptation of #GoodOmens. Of course: Frances McDormand. Are you looking forward to watching later in the year?
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*GIVEAWAY* This month marks 42 years since the original radio broadcast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! And you could win the entire 'trilogy of five', illustrated by @jonathanburton. Follow and RT by midnight Friday to enter! Open worldwide.
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**GIVEAWAY** To celebrate #TolkienReadingDay, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of our stunning edition of The Hobbit, illustrated by Eric Fraser. RT to enter, the giveaway is open worldwide and closes midnight GMT Tues 27 March.
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*GIVEAWAY* To celebrate #WorldBookDay earlier this week, we are running a giveaway where the winner can choose 3 titles from this stack to take home 🎉 TO ENTER: follow @foliosociety and RT or comment with your favourite children's book character. Closes midnight 6 March.
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🐣 It's competition time! 🐣 Enter and you could win the Folio limited edition of The Tales of Peter Rabbit and FIVE different children's titles. TO ENTER: RT this post. Open internationally. Entries close 23:59 (UK time) Tuesday 11 April.
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Pre-order the stunning Folio edition of #GameOfThrones!. Illustrated by @jonathanburton and introduced by @LordGrimdark, this spectacular set includes a new colour map, folding out to reveal the full splendour of @GRRMspeaking’s creation.
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The fifth volume in Folio’s @Marvel Heroes series, Doctor Strange, is now available! Former Marvel Editor in Chief Roy Thomas has selected and introduced fourteen of the Sorcerer Supreme’s most dazzling exploits. Take a look:
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Terry Pratchett's #Mort is 30 years old today. RT by 15 Nov for a chance to win our stunning illustrated edition.
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We are obsessed with some of our books page edges. These are from Anansi Boys by @neilhimself, Selected Short Stories by Philip K. Dick and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (bottom to top!). Each of these beautiful titles are available at
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Released today is our stunning new edition of Japanese Tales. This collection of 170 quaint, comic and curious tales that delve deep into Medieval Japanese culture is beautifully illustrated by @yukoart.
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🎇 COMPETITION 🎇 What an exciting year it has been! We’d like to say goodbye to 2022 by offering our followers a chance to win their favourite Folio book. TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and comment below with what book you would choose if you won. Closes 23:59 3 January 2023.
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'Why does genre matter? Is it possible that what we think of as genre boundaries are things that have been invented fairly recently by the publishing industry?' Authors @neilhimself and Kazuo Ishiguro discuss at @NewStatesman.
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It's #WorldBookDay! Tell us what your favourite Folio is and why, and you could win a new Folio of your choice worth up to £50 📚Reply or RT your choice to enter, or post a photo of the edition using #MyFavouriteFolio. (Open worldwide, enter by midnight GMT Sat 9 March.)
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**GIVEAWAY** To celebrate #TerryPratchettDay, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of our stunning edition of Small Gods, illustrated by Omar Rayyan. RT to enter, the giveaway is open worldwide and closes midnight GMT Mon 30 April.
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*GIVEAWAY* It's International Women's Day! To celebrate, we are giving you the chance to win these four editions signed by their wonderful female authors and artists. RT by midnight 10 March to enter, open worldwide. #IWD2021
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📚 GIVEAWAY 📚 Have you entered our National Book Lovers Day giveaway yet? We're giving one of you a chance to win a £100 Folio gift card. TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and retweet this post. Open internationally. Competition closes 23:59 (UK time) tonight! ⏰
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We are thrilled to reveal our newest limited edition: Frankenstein. Limited to 750 copies, this edition is signed by artist Angela Barrett who has contributed eight colour plates, two elaborate borders, nine intricate vignettes and a striking binding.
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*GIVEAWAY* We're giving you the chance to win a copy of Folio's best-selling edition of #HowlsMovingCastle, exclusively signed by artist @maharelillo! Isn't it a beauty? 😍 RT by midnight 27 September to enter, open worldwide.
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**GIVEAWAY** To celebrate the new TV adaptation of #HisDarkMaterials, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of our set of His Dark Materials SIGNED by @PhilipPullman and Peter Bailey. RT to enter! Competition ends 5 Nov. Best of luck!
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Good Omens is officially coming back for a second season! Following the success of the first season, @michaelsheen and David Tennant will be back as Aziraphale and Crowley, with @neilhimself returning as executive producer, @digitalspy reports.
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The next #BIC2019 entry is by Alejo and Vivian de los Rios. Each of the 25 longlisted artists submitted three illustrations and a cover design for our edition of Howl's Moving Castle. Vote for your favourite in The People's Choice Award: @illustrationHQ
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Emily Brontë was born 200 years ago today. #WutheringHeights still defies easy classification, and remains a uniquely powerful novel that transcends genres. Our beautiful edition is illustrated by @RovinaCai and introduced by Patti Smith. #EmilyBrontë200
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The #Sandman comic books created by @neilhimself will be adapted by @netflix, reports @Variety. After Good Omens and American Gods, are you excited?
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'She’s one of the most important and influential authors in children’s fantasy. Readers who know her love her and reread her books over and over again.' @voxdotcom examines the legacy of Diana Wynne Jones and the new Folio edition of #HowlsMovingCastle.
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**GIVEAWAY** To celebrate #TerryPratchettDay, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of our stunning edition of Small Gods, illustrated by Omar Rayyan. RT to enter, the giveaway is open worldwide and closes midnight GMT Mon 30 April.
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Plans have been approved for a new museum in Bath to celebrate Mary Shelley and her iconic novel #Frankenstein. It will be doors away from the @JaneAustenBath already in Bath, and could open by the end of the year.
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Best known for his collections of fairy and folk tales, Andrew Lang was born 174 years ago today. Our editions of his #RainbowFairyBooks are beautifully illustrated - only Nursery Rhymes, Red and Pink are still available!
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We're thrilled to announce a spectacular new limited edition: Frank Herbert's #Dune. Limited to just 500 copies, illustrated and signed by @sampaints, it comes in a stunning clamshell presentation box alongside a new fold-out map and a separate print.
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🐰 GIVEAWAY🐰 Have you entered our The Velveteen Rabbit giveaway yet? We are giving one of you the chance to win this beautiful edition. To enter: RT this post and follow @foliosociety. Open internationally and ends Tues 27 11:59PM GMT.
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**GIVEAWAY** It's the last chance to enter our giveaway to win a signed copy of our stunning #HisDarkMaterials set! Retweet by midnight tonight to enter, competition is open internationally. Best of luck!
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*GIVEAWAY* Today is Frank Herbert's birthday! To celebrate, we are giving one of you the chance to win his masterpiece, #Dune. TO ENTER: RT this post and follow @foliosociety. This giveaway is open internationally. Ends midnight (BST) 10 October.
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We are thrilled to announce our latest limited edition: Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun. Introduced by @neilhimself and illustrated by @sampaints, each of these 750 spectacular copies are signed by Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman and Sam Weber.
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A young girl from Endon, Staffordshire, has transformed a local phone box into a library for villagers, @BBC finds. 'Her grandad James Biddulph, said she had been shocked when she had heard that one in eight children had not had a book of their own.'
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We are delighted to announce our first new editions of 2019 - three stunning science fiction and fantasy titles! . Anansi Boys by @neilhimself.Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells.
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Part Three 'would consist of Dune Messiah, Herbert’s direct follow-up to Dune.' Denis Villeneuve speaks to @empiremagazine about the influence Dune: Messiah will have on the third part in his epic Dune film trilogy.
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We just can't resist a coloured page edge. ❤️
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'For Mr Orwell, the most honest writer alive, hypocrisy is too dreadful for laughter: it feeds his despair.' Read the @NewStatesman 1949 review of George Orwell's dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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This is such a lovely thing to see 🥺 Seeing people gift and enjoy Folio books is the sort of stuff that makes us feel proud about what we do (and sniffle).
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⚫ IT'S GIVEAWAY TIME! ⚫ Don't miss out on a chance to win a copy of The Hundred and One Dalmatians signed by the artist, Sara Ogilvie. TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and RT this post. Closes 23:59 (UK time) 8 May. Open internationally.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is part of our new collection! Published in response to phenomenal demand following our sell-out limited edition, Shelley’s darkly disturbing classic is presented as a sumptuous collector’s book illustrated by Angela Barrett.
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**GIVEAWAY** To celebrate #TolkienReadingDay, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of our stunning edition of The Hobbit, illustrated by Eric Fraser. RT to enter, the giveaway is open worldwide and closes midnight GMT Tues 27 March. @TolkienSociety
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'A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.' Happy #TowelDay! Our 'trilogy of five' editions all feature sparkling midnight blue bindings, and illustrations throughout by @jonathanburton.
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Joining our Half Price Sale are @Marvel's Golden, Silver and Bronze Age editions. Get 50% off ALL sale titles until midnight 14 January:
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Author Ray #Bradbury was born 99 years ago today. Our editions of his work - Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man - all feature stunning artwork. What would you like to see next?
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We're thrilled to announce that an outstanding new collector’s edition of @robinhobb's best-selling fantasy The Farseer Trilogy is coming soon to Folio! Here's a tiny teaser of the books. are you as excited as we are? #FarseerTrilogy
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It's time for the #GameOfThronesFinale! Once we've all caught our breath, it's surely time to start all over again - and what better way to celebrate than with the gorgeous new Folio collector's edition?? Available to pre-order now!
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It's finally here! The Folio Christmas Collection is launching next Tuesday! We are so excited to share 14 new titles with you, including the next edition in a fantasy series, an incredible physics title and an epic historical novel. What are you hoping to see next week? 📚
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Phantom of the Opera is new in our Christmas Collection. The vaults of the Paris Opéra hide a hideous secret, and it’s revealed with theatrical flourish in this lavish new Folio edition. Taylor Dolan illustrates, including decorative chapter openings.
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*GIVEAWAY* To celebrate Frank Herbert's birthday today, we are giving one of you the chance to win his epic novel, #Dune. TO ENTER: RT this post and follow @foliosociety. This giveaway is open internationally. Ends midnight (BST) 10 October.
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⚫ GIVEAWAY CLOSING SOON ⚫ You can still win a copy of The Hundred and One Dalmatians signed by the artist, Sara Ogilvie. TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and RT this post. Closes 23:59 (UK time) 8 May. Open internationally.
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We're thrilled to reveal our latest limited edition: The Complete Short Stories of Philip K. Dick. Designed by @LaBocaDesign, these fabulous four volumes of 118 stories include specially commissioned illustrations by 24 artists. Only 750 will be made.
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We're giving you the chance to win your choice of one of our stunning #JaneAusten editions! RT to enter, by midnight Thurs 20 July.
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*GIVEAWAY* Don't miss out, we're giving you the chance to win a copy of Folio's best-selling edition of #HowlsMovingCastle - exclusively signed by artist @maharelillo no less! Retweet by midnight 27 September to enter, open worldwide.
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Today marks 40 years since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was first published! Our edition of Douglas Adams's sci-fi comedy classic is bound in blocked glittered cloth. Watch as it shimmers. #HGTTG
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To celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day, we're giving you the chance to win a beautiful Folio book of your choice to gift to your loved one! 🎁 TO ENTER: Follow @foliosociety and comment below with the book you would choose for your loved one. Closes 23:59 (UK time) 22 February
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'Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.' Charlotte Brontë died on this day in 1855. Our beautiful edition of her #JaneEyre is introduced by Emma Donoghue and gothically illustrated by @santiagocaruso.
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The Anglo-Saxons by James Campbell is a new edition in our Summer Collection. Still one of the most influential books in its field, this edition features an introduction by @britishmuseum curator Gareth Williams and a separate colour photography volume.
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The Folio Christmas Collection has finally arrived and we have 15 beautiful new titles for you! From the next editions in our Bond, Jurassic Park and @Marvel series to The Color Purple and A Bright Shining Lie, which of our new editions is your favourite?
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H. P. Lovecraft was born #otd 1890. @MrDanHillier illustrates our other-worldly edition of The Call of #Cthulhu.
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It's #InternationalWomensDay! To celebrate, we’re giving you a chance to win these stunning SIGNED Folio editions of @hrcastor's #SheWolves, @wmarybeard's #SPQR, and The Folio Book of Science by @theAliceRoberts. RT by midnight Sun 10 March to enter, open worldwide.
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Have you seen Folio's new limited edition of #TheLordOfTheRings? With stunning maps by Christopher Tolkien, new artwork by Alan Lee and all of his existing illustrations, this is the ultimate edition of Middle-earth. Only 1,000 copies have been made.
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We are thrilled to announce the publication of The Book of the New Sun! Our limited edition sold out in 13 days, and it is now available as a collector’s edition. This spectacular two-volume set features a powerful introduction by @neilhimself.
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Author Ursula K. Le Guin died a year ago today. @brainpickings shows her friend @neilhimself reading one her final poems to his 100-year-old cousin Helen Fagin.
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5 years
Today is #WorldBookDay! Follow and RT for your chance to win this stunning stack of Folio books - each one signed by their author or illustrator 🎉Open worldwide, enter by midnight Sunday 8 March for your chance to win.
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2 years
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will be published tomorrow in a fantastic Folio limited edition signed and illustrated by @jonathanburton. Orders placed by 1pm (UK time) 23 May 2023 will be entered in a ballot for the chance to receive set number 42.
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*GIVEAWAY* This month marks 42 years since the original radio broadcast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! You could win the entire 'trilogy of five', illustrated by @jonathanburton. Follow and RT by midnight tonight to enter! Open worldwide.
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Be in the chance of winning a £100 Folio Society Gift Card! 📚 All you need to do is add 3 items to your wish list. But hurry, the competition closes at 23:59 today (UK time) T&Cs apply.
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The Folio Society
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Today is the birthday of Alan Moore. He wrote the arresting new preface to our edition of H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories. The edition is also strikingly illustrated by @MrDanHillier.
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Today commemorates 50 years since @JRRTolkien died. These collector's editions of Tolkien's magnificent work have been blocked in gold and illustrated by Eric Fraser, Ingahild Grathmer (Queen Margrethe II of Denmark) and Francis Mosley.
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The Folio Society
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It's time for another sneak peek at our upcoming edition of A Clash of Kings! Just like our #GameOfThrones edition, it is split into two volumes. This exclusive look at the covers for both books shows direwolves, butting stags and krakens amongst the metallic details.
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The Wind in the Willows was first published this month in 1908. This edition of Kenneth Grahame’s enchanting adventure, one of Folio Society’s all-time best-sellers, features 83 wonderful illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk.
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The Folio Society
7 years
William Peter Blatty, famous for his novel The Exorcist, was born 90 years ago today. Our edition of the iconic tale of demonic possession is illustrated by Jeremy Caniglia.
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*GIVEAWAY* This month marks 42 years since the original radio broadcast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! You could win the entire 'trilogy of five', illustrated by @jonathanburton. Follow and RT by midnight Friday to enter! Open worldwide.
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Happy birthday to @neilhimself! Our edition of his #AmericanGods is stunningly illustrated by @DaveMcKean.
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