Andy Miller, author of The Year of Reading Dangerously, recently asked his incredibly talented friend Jim’ll Paint It to paint him a picture. For those of you unaware of Jim’ll Paint It’s work, he sums it up perfectly in his own words: ‘Got something in your brain that you’d really like to see with your eyes? Just ask and if I like the sound of it I’ll paint it for you for free using incredibly high tech and sophisticated MS Paint software.’
In 2012 Jonas Jonasson’s The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared was published and quickly became a world-wide bestseller.
The 4th Estate Literary Salon is back! Come and hear Damian Barr, Alexandra Heminsley and Andy Miller discuss the matter of memoir writing.
Christopher Nicholson’s Winter is a poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy’s relationship with his last muse.
Here’s a mouthwatering, wholesome recipe from Nigel Slater’s Eat: The Little Book of Fast Food: a slow-cooked Beef Pie with Celeriac Rösti Crust. It’s the perfect meal for these cold winter evenings.
We’re giving away five copies of This is the Way by Gavin Corbett.
We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that The Pike by Lucy Hughes-Hallett last night won the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 – the UK’s most prestigious award for non-fiction.
We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that The Pike by Lucy Hughes-Hallett last night won the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 – the UK’s most prestigious award for non-fiction.
Lucy’s biography of Italian artist Gabriele D’Annunzio beat off strong competition to scoop the £20,000 prize, which was awarded at a ceremony at London’s Royal Institute of British Architects. Read more…
