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Five from 4th Estate

Zeljka February 15, 2013

We’ve done it again: boiled the internet down to the five things you need to see, read and do this week. This weekend’s entertainment brought to you by us at 4th Estate. If Hilary Mantel had to give any one person … Continue reading →

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Five from 4th Estate

Zeljka February 1, 2013

What do Patti Smith, Hilary Mantel and photos of Dublin have in common? They all feature on this week’s Five from 4th Estate, of course. Five online things to kick off the weekend. What could be sweeter? Who doesn’t love … Continue reading →

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Five from 4th Estate

Zeljka January 24, 2013

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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Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies Wins the Man Booker Prize

Tara October 17, 2012

We are absolutely delighted to announce that Bring Up The Bodies has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize, making Hilary Mantel the first woman and the first British author to win it twice. Sir Peter Stothard, chair of the judges … Continue reading →

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Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012

Zeljka September 11, 2012

We are proud and thrilled to announce that Hilary Mantel’s ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ has been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Mantel won the prize in 2009 for the first in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, ‘Wolf Hall’, with … Continue reading →

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‘It asks you to do a lot of the work of imagining and storytelling’- Sam Thompson writes about Communion Town

Zeljka July 30, 2012

I’m dumbstruck by the news that Communion Town has been longlisted for the Man Booker prize. What can you say about such an improbable stroke of good fortune for a first novel, other than repeating words like ‘thrilled’, ‘incredulous’, ‘bamboozled’ … Continue reading →

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3 Fourth Estate titles on the 2012 Booker Longlist- The Yips, Communion Town and Bring up the Bodies

Zeljka July 26, 2012

We are very proud of our three authors Hilary Mantel, Nicola Barker and Sam Thompson who have been longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. Mantel has been longlisted for Bring up the Bodies, the sequel to the 2009 Booker-winning … Continue reading →

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Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies Out Now

Tara May 11, 2012

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

Tara May 8, 2012

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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Hilary Mantel on Thomas Cromwell: ‘I could make it different, I could make it come up fresh and new’

Tara May 1, 2012

With only nine days till publication, here’s another teaser clip to whet your appetites… Hilary Mantel, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning ‘Wolf Hall’ and its sequel ‘Bring Up The Bodies’, talks about her main character Thomas Cromwell.

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