4th Estate and sister imprint William Collins are looking to hire a Publishing Executive to the Publisher.
At 4th Estate we keep our ear close to the ground, or rather, our eyes below the line. Lurking in comments sections is a habit we just can’t kick, but listening in on the chatter surrounding the Booker longlist was more than an excuse for procrastination – in fact we’ve been given a kick up the proverbial. Read more…
‘THE UK WILL BE AS HOT AS BALI TODAY’ we read on the front page of newspapers, sighing as we’re enveloped in the body heat of our fellow commuters. As we peel ourselves out of the tube and drag our humidity tormented and sleep-deprived bodies into the office, we remember why we’re here. For the BOOKS, of course. Read more…
‘As part of the research to write John the Pupil, after I’d finished my months in the library immersed in the history, theology, politics, chronicles and hagiographies of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, I travelled along the Via Francigena. Read more…
Amy Tan’s latest novel, The Valley of Amazement, is the perfect kind of paperback for a holiday in the sun – an epic of love, heartbreak and betrayal told over three generations. In November last year Amy was invited to speak on Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’, to talk about the inspirations behind the book. The following is a transcript of that interview.
On Tuesday evening, despite occupying a position of near complete ignorance on the subject, I attempted to explain the concept of geocaching to a friend. As far as I understand, someone hides something somewhere out of the way, posts the location someplace online and waits for someone else to find it. I went on to say that the treasure might not be valuable in a monetary sense, and at that, my friend’s interest waned even more.
As the V&A celebrate marriage in their Wedding Dress exhibition, 4th Estate looks at marriage from Shakespeare’s happily-ever-after comedies to the ‘it’s complicated’ world of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot.
