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.