The sun’s been peeking through the clouds this week, and reminding us that summer is A Thing. So what better way to look ahead to finer weather than to reveal the paperback cover of our perfect holiday read, The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister…
International Women’s Day has been and gone, but our WOM4N theme will be running until the end of the month. And what could be more befitting than exploring female sexuality through the sharp, and often hilarious, words of Nell Zink. Warning: these passages contain sexually explicit language, read on at your own peril/delight…
‘You’re doing what?’
‘I’m writing a series of novels set in all of the historic counties of England.’
‘That’s what I thought you said. Just remind me – how many historic counties are there?’ Read more…
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…
Happy British Science Week, the UK’s largest grassroots celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths. The week runs from 11th to 20th of March, and we thought that it might be quite nice to remind you that we LOVE science here at 4th Estate. To kick things off, an extract from I think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre!
‘Write Here’ takes us into our authors’ writing spaces across the globe, where they tell us about how they go about their craft. We mark each location on the map at the bottom of each post. Today we travel to Pune, India, where Anjali Joseph writes amongst Banyan trees and pi-dogs.
We only ever stray away from the 4 Books podcast format to bring you something truly brilliant, and this week, we have a corker of a podcast for you. Joanna Blythman, Britain’s leading investigate food journalist, is in the studio answering your questions on all things food. The good, the bad, and the truly frightening. Read more…
Here at 4th Estate we’ve been celebrating International Women’s Day, which comes as no surprise considering the wonderful array of female writers we publish. And so, to mark this momentous occasion, we wanted to share insightful snippets of what it’s like to be a woman by a selection of these revered writers – from being a feminist, and telling our stories, to gender bias in the way we eat, tropes in films, and the stereotypes attached to beauty. Read more…
