This is the third FoodFrom4th, and with it, we thought we’d give you a delicious, seasonal and really very easy pudding to make that’ll taste amazing, and definitely impress. We don’t want to prematurely say that it’s getting colder and that the nights are drawing in, but it it kind of starting to apply. How better to spend cooler summer nights than wrapped up with a fresh, sweet and creamy dessert.
The product of a stormy upbringing in an Irish Catholic enclave of New York City, Eileen craves stability. Coming of age in the early Sixties, she meets and marries a young scientist named Edmund Leary. While Eileen wants more for her family, Ed won’t give up teaching for a better-paid job. Inadvertently Eileen starts to climb her own career ladder in nursing. She pushes Ed into finding a new home, but it becomes clear that his resistance is part of a deeply troubling psychological shift.
In this masterful debut, Matthew Thomas paints a sprawling, profoundly sympathetic portrait of a family coping with slow-burning tragedy. We Are Not Ourselves is a grand testament to our deepest hopes and most human frailties. Read more…
It’s been a long time since the last bank holiday, hasn’t it? Unless you count Christmas and the New Year (which you shouldn’t), the next bank holiday isn’t until next year so you’d better use this one wisely. So, what to do? It seems that a BBQ is the thing to do, but we’re not especially trusting of the weather at the moment. So, how about making a delicious three tomato tart over the weekend? Seasonal and tasty, fresh and filling, Daylesford Farm have delivered the perfect transitional weather meal. Read more…
Happy GCSE results day! Yes, the day may feel slightly less important and life-changing than A-Level results day, but for some of you, you only have to wait a couple of years for that delight. In honour of the occasion, 4th Estate have compiled our very own GSCE book curriculum. Read more…
While our summer certainly feels like it’s over (or at least dwindling rapidly…), Lena Dunham’s is not. The actor, director, producer AND writer of the upcoming Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned has instagrammed her summer reading list – a nice collation of book porn to keep us going through this British autumnal blip. Read more…
Another day, another giveaway. This time, we’ve got 19 copies of the truly outstanding Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer for you to win, the highly anticipated third book in the Southern Reach trilogy. It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown – navigating new terrain and new challenges – the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. In this last instalment of the Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound – or terrifying. Read more…
With just five weeks to go before a referendum on September 18th in which Scotland will decide whether or not they’ll end the 307-year union they have with England, we thought it would be nice to bring you some of 4th Estate and latterly Harper Perrenial’s most loved Scottish books. These titles draw on Scottish history and what it is to be Scottish, set against the beautiful backdrop of the Scottish land and waters. Read more…
Congratulations to those who went to collect your A Level results today. We also extend our congratulations to those who couldn’t bear to collect their results, instead crossing their fingers that everything will work out and, come the late autumn, they’ll be heading off to their university of choice (or the university chosen for them). Read more…
