With King Power and The Sport of Kings coming off the presses this month, we’re in a right royal mood at 4th Estate. Here are some of our favourite regal reads…
We know so much. Every time you open the newspapers we seem to have solved another great mystery about the universe. The discovery of another fundamental particle in the LHC. The measurement of gravitational waves rippling through the universe. The identification of genes related to deadly diseases. Read more…
Maths is not our strong point. Nor is science. As you may suspect, we at 4th Estate are more comfortable with words than with formulas. But, What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge by Marcus du Sautoy is one of those books that makes us feel as though we can actually understand a subject that we’ve been grappling with for years. Another thing that we here in Marketing would like to know more about is cover art. So, we’ve asked Jonny Pelham, the designer of What We Cannot Know, to tell us about the artwork that encases du Sautoy’s thought-provoking expedition to the furthest reaches of modern science. Read more…
This month’s cover reveal is a book we’ve been waiting to arrive from the printers since we saw the early drafts of the design – C.E. Morgan’s magisterial The Sport of Kings. Read more…
“A nice day in general; just enjoying myself. No particular thoughts, except perhaps I’d like to change my life.”
In 2001, two friends of mine, Professor Richard Grove and Dr Dido Davies, were mucking around in a building site when they discovered armfuls of notebooks scattered across the rubble in a skip. Some of the volumes had royal emblems stamped on the front. Others were military-issue journals. Read more…
There was no shortage of superlatives on Tuesday after little Leicester City were crowned champions of the world’s richest soccer league. New fans sprung up worldwide overnight, but few could explain the season’s extraordinary events.
A Bangkok monk said the power of Buddhism had lifted the Thai-owned club to victory, while some fans closer to home gave thanks to King Richard III, saying his reinternment in Leicester last year had sparked the magic. In a soon-to-be-published book “King Power”, which also happens to be the name of the group that owns the soccer club, a re-imagined Richard III offers his Middle English analysis of Leicester’s rise to glory under manager Claudio Ranieri. Read more…
