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Five from 4th Estate

Five from 4th Estate: revealing the most interesting corners of the internet, one page at a time. This week listen, watch and read the best things we’ve found online just for you, from us at 4th Estate. Michael Chabon’s terrific … Continue reading

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Five from 4th Estate

It’s cold. Why go out? Here are five reasons not to. Stay indoors and read, watch and discover these five internet things. ‘Cos baby it’s… (oh, you know the rest). “J.D. Salinger went into hiding because he was embarrassed.” The … Continue reading

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Five from 4th Estate

Happy New Year from all at 4th Estate. Here’s to another year of exploration on the internet. As a new year dawns, we hope that 2013 brings odder and funnier literary tumblrs, greater book obsessives, even more awe-inspiring (and sing-along) … Continue reading

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Five from 4th Estate

The holidays. Ahh. This week we’ve been revisiting some of the internet things that we’ve bookmarked as ‘old favourites’: blogs and websites to return to over and over again. We hope you enjoy them. We thought cat blogs were just for girls. … Continue reading

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Five from 4th Estate

To celebrate the start of your weekend, here are five online things we’ve been reading and listening to this week. A selection of the best from the web, chosen by us for you. ‘I look the way a depressed person looks, … Continue reading

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Five from 4th Estate

Here are five online things that we’ve been sharing, discussing, reading and watching this week.

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Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies Out Now

Yesterday’s release of Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies was frenzied and wonderful, sparking a kind of unbridled enthusiasm that is impossible to capture in text. High streets across the country sparkled with red and gold, and twitter and Facebook hummed to the din of … Continue reading

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Joanna Blythman’s Blog – Morrisons’ GM Muck Up

Morrisons’ rearguard decision to allow its farmers to use GM feed looks spectacularly ill-informed and dumb, when Carrefour labels own-label meat and dairy products as GM animal feed-free, or ‘Nourri sans OGM’. If the world’s second largest retailer can guarantee … Continue reading

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Hilary Mantel: ‘A writer knows when they have come to the book that they were meant to be writing all along’

With such a spectacular burst of review coverage over the weekend, here’s Hilary talking about the success of Wolf Hall and introducing the book on everyone’s lips – Bring Up The Bodies…

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Wolf Hall to be made into mini series by the BBC and HBO.

Wolf Hall to be made into mini series by the BBC and HBO. The BBC and HBO are developing a TV drama mini-series adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning historical novel Wolf Hall to be broadcast on BBC2. Wolf … Continue reading