Category Archives: Fiction

Gavin Corbett introduces his new novel This is the Way

Zeljka January 28, 2013

    Here Gavin Corbett introduces This is the Way and writes about the inspiration and influences behind the novel which has already attracted so much praise. Corbett’s photographs of Dublin can be seen in the above slideshow. I remember well the … 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 →

Categories: blogs, Booker Prize, bring up the bodies, Doris Lessing, Fiction, Five from 4th Estate, Hilary Mantel, Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue, Uncategorized, Wolf Hall, Writing Tips | Tags: , , , , , , ,
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Five from 4th Estate

Zeljka January 18, 2013

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

Zeljka January 11, 2013

Five things to see and read, and even a theory-related game to play? It must be this week’s Five from 4th Estate. You may have noticed we’ve been getting pretty excited about Sam Byers’s debut novel Idiopathy, which we will … Continue reading →

Categories: Fiction, Five from 4th Estate, Gavin Corbett, Idiopathy, Joyce Carol Oates, Lena Dunham, Not That Kind Of Girl, Sam Byers, This is the Way | Tags: , , ,
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Five from 4th Estate

Zeljka December 7, 2012

To make up for a missed post last week, today we err from the trodden path of five best internet things and bring you the six articles, videos and ideas that we’ve been sharing and discussing this week. We hope … Continue reading →

Categories: Americanah, Bookshops, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fiction, Five from 4th Estate, Ian Sansom, James Gleick, The Information | Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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Five from 4th Estate

Zeljka November 16, 2012

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

Zeljka November 9, 2012

Here are the five online things that are essential reading, watching and sharing this week. Chosen for you by us at 4th Estate. The Moby Dick Big Read is Philip Hoare’s leviathan challenge. He’s taken Moby Dick, the great unread American novel, … Continue reading →

Categories: current affairs, Fiction, film, Five from 4th Estate, Girls, Lena Dunham, Moby Dick, Philip Hoare, reviews, Self Help, The Road, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,
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Five from 4th Estate

Zeljka November 2, 2012

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

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‘A life form in itself… a many voiced thing’ Sam Thompson in two exclusive author videos

Zeljka September 10, 2012

Ahead of the Booker shortlist announcement this week, we’ve released these two exclusive videos of Booker longlisted author Sam Thompson. Filmed in his office in Oxford, he discusses his debut novel Communion Town, the definition of a city and the books that … Continue reading →

Categories: Book Trailer, City, Communion Town, Debut novels, Fiction, Prize Winners, Sam Thompson, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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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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