This month, for the first time ever, we have a double cover reveal for you – let’s take a look at the cute, shiny paperback incarnations of short story collections Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny and Barbara the Slut by Lauren Holmes…
We’re nearing the end of our Picture Perfect month, and how better to wrap things up than to share our favourite covers with you. From power stations to fabric vaginas, here are the books the 4th Estate team are happy to judge by their covers.
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‘My vegan brother Owen regularly puts in requests for things he misses from the old days. Most frequently they’re for banoffee pie or a really good pizza, and this is what I make him. I love cooking and eating vegan food – it leaves me feeling light and bright, and I relish how it makes me rethink my cooking because it takes a little more attention.
If vegan cooking can sometimes be considered time-consuming and complicated, or worthy and uninteresting, pizza proves that’s not the case. This pizza topping also works amazingly on my cauliflower pizza base from A Modern Way to Eat, which is a good gluten-free alternative. Read more…
Black Friday sparks a kind of consumerist frenzy, either performed privately – through the careful monitoring of numerous baskets across countless online retailers, or publicly – racing to your local Tesco’s at the stroke of midnight, lugging your widescreen home in the early hours, cradled uneasily in the boot of your car.
We wanted to offer a calming antidote to all that stress, in the form of Jonathan Franzen’s Purity.
We have four absolutely beautiful signed, extremely limited-edition versions of his bestselling book, wrapped up in gleaming black and gold. These are four of a grand total of fifteen, and are THE ONLY ones in circulation in the entire world – just the kind of money-can’t-buy offering to counteract the consumerist tide.
To enter the competition, just fill in the form below, and we’ll announce the winner next Friday. Or you could double your chances… we’re giving one away on twitter just for today – follow @4thEstateBooks and look out for further instructions.
If you’re still hankering after the white version, you can buy it here, or from the usual suspects.
Happy Thanksgiving! Hallowe’en might have passed, but we’re still determined to find a use for pumpkins… While this recipe might not be the traditional pumpkin pie, America’s favourite autumn flavours work perfectly when transformed into cupcakes. Read more…
Here at 4th Estate, we are excited to announce that we will be part of Central St Martins’ Festival of Applied Imagination on Thursday 10th December.
This month we’re celebrating our illustrated books, with our Picture Perfect theme. Earlier this month we encouraged you to feast your eyes on the beautiful pages of Michael Cunningham’s dark and perverse collection of fairytales A Wild Swan and Other Tales and now, to lift your Friday, we have an interview with its illustrator, the amazing Yuko Shimizu.
On Thursday the 19th of November, the legendary Homer Hickam will have two very special books published by HarperCollins Fiction, and by 4th Estate. HarperCollins are releasing Carrying Albert Home, while we at 4th Estate are reissuing the very-much-still-in-demand Rocket Boys. Homer Hickam was kind enough to write something for us about how one very much became the other, so many years later… Read more…
