Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all who celebrate it. Here at 4th Estate, we aren’t partaking in any festivities just yet (it’s only 11am) but we’re watching the clock. Here for you are three and a half of our favourite quotes from our Irish authors. Ian Sansom only counts as half because he lives in Ireland, you see. Read more…
In his acclaimed debut We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas paints a sprawling, profoundly sympathetic portrait of a family coping with slow-burning tragedy. The novel is a grand testament to our deepest hopes and most human frailties. In this video, he speaks about his incredibly personal and touching first hand experience of his father’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease. “He took the news like a champ,” the author recalls. Read more…
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
‘Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.’ Read more…
The Folio Prize has revealed the 80 books nominated by The Folio Prize Academy for consideration by this year’s Folio Prize judges, and an extraordinary eight of them are 4th Estate titles – that’s 10% of the nominations! Read more…
The product of a stormy upbringing in an Irish Catholic enclave of New York City, Eileen craves stability. Coming of age in the early Sixties, she meets and marries a young scientist named Edmund Leary. While Eileen wants more for her family, Ed won’t give up teaching for a better-paid job. Inadvertently Eileen starts to climb her own career ladder in nursing. She pushes Ed into finding a new home, but it becomes clear that his resistance is part of a deeply troubling psychological shift.
In this masterful debut, Matthew Thomas paints a sprawling, profoundly sympathetic portrait of a family coping with slow-burning tragedy. We Are Not Ourselves is a grand testament to our deepest hopes and most human frailties. Read more…
It’s been a very busy couple of weeks here at 4th Estate, what with The Dog being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. So imagine our utter delight when we discovered that We Are Not Ourselves, the corker of a debut we’ve been getting suitably excited over, is nominated for the Guardian First Book Award! A huge congratulations to author Matthew Thomas, and to everyone here at 4th Estate who has worked so hard on the book. Read more…
In case you’ve forgotten, we’re still giving away two incredible 4th Estate novels. The Dog, just longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and We Are Not Ourselves, the debut that’s already beginning to blow reviewers away. The giveaways end on Monday 11th of August. Good luck! Read more…
