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About 4th Estate

4th Estate

Founded by Victoria Barnsley in 1984 and acquired by HarperCollins in 2000, 4th Estate is one of the most innovative and eclectic imprints in the industry, with a reputation for publishing a wide variety of critically-acclaimed and beautifully-produced titles.

Recent fiction includes Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Orange Prize-winning Half of a Yellow Sun; while recent non-fiction includes the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Leviathan by Philip Hoare, Siddharta Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies, Ben Goldacre’s bestselling Bad Science, and Nigel Slater’s Tender I and II.

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    WRECKED

    Charlotte Roche
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    From the author of the international bestseller ‘Wetlands’, a raw and taboo-breaking novel of sex, death, and marriage.

    Publication Date: UK 25th Apr 2013

    MAYA’S NOTEBOOK

    Isabel Allende
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    From the author of ‘The House of Spirits’ – teenage Maya is in trouble. She’s an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong?

    Publication Date: UK 23rd Apr 2013

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