4 books that flagrantly disregard temporal boundaries, brought to you by us at 4th Estate.
Daniel Clay’s fantastic novel Broken has been adapted for the big screen by critically acclaimed director Rufus Norris. The multi-award-winning film features a great cast including Oscar-nominated Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy and Rory Kinnear. The film is in cinemas from 8th March. Find out more about the film on the official Facebook page – facebook.com/broken.official.uk – or watch a trailer below:
Who needs Google when you’ve got us? Don’t bother searching for ‘fun literary things’; we’ve found you loads. Well, five. But they’re all really good. Five things to read and see online. Just for you, from us at 4th Estate. Read more…
4 books that probe the limits of belief, recommended to you by us at 4th Estate.
Last summer at the festival in Hay-on-Wye, I was asked to name a famous person and choose a book to give them. I hate the leaden repetitiveness of these little quizzes: who would be the guests at your ideal dinner party, what book has changed your life, which fictional character do you most resemble? I had to come up with an answer, however, so I chose Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and I chose to give her a book published in 2006, by the cultural historian Caroline Weber; it’s called Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. It’s not that I think we’re heading for a revolution. It’s rather that I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung. In those days she was a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore. These days she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions. Once she gets over being sick, the press will find that she is radiant. They will find that this young woman’s life until now was nothing, her only point and purpose being to give birth. Read more…
On the 6th June 4th Estate will be publishing Andrew Martin’s Flight By Elephant, the incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission. Below is a video of the incredible rescue mission.
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. Read more…
We like to think that supermarkets would never sell us anything that wasn’t quite what it seemed. That’s what you expect from the shifty bloke down the market, isn’t it? But when minced-up Dobbin makes an unannounced appearance in beefburgers sold by Tesco, Iceland, Lidl, Aldi and the Irish chain Dunnes, it’s apparent that any such faith is misplaced. Read more…
