About FOLIO
FOLIO is a fictional bookshop, made to show the POLYMATH theme. Every title, author and bookseller is invented.
We keep a short shelf of books we have read, argued about and would press into a friend’s hands, and a table of paper and pens for writing about them.
Our one rule
We only sell books that one of us has finished.
The FOLIO booksellers (fictional)
The back room
After closing, the kettle goes on
On the first Thursday of the month, six to ten readers pull chairs between the shelves and talk about one book. Shorter books in the busy months, longer ones in winter. (Demo event.)
How we sell books
Slowly, by hand
A short shelf
Fewer titles, each one read and argued over.
A note in every book
The bookseller who chose it says why.
Wrapped in paper
Plain paper and string, with a handwritten card on request.
Ask us anything
Tell us the last book you loved and we suggest the next.
On the counter
