It’s over. It’s finally over. As the ember-glow of the burning trash fire that was 2016 slowly dims, take your mind off the worst year in recent memory (or try to process it) with these wonderful reads, hand-picked by our brilliant authors.
Donald Trump is President-elect of the United States of America. Mainstream media and at least 50% of the US population (plus approximately 100% of the world) are still reeling. Here’s how 4th Estate authors met the news the morning of November 9th, 2016.
After one of the most divisive and contentious campaigns in the country’s history, today America goes to the polls to elect the next leader of the free world. The rest of us watch and wait with bated breath. After a year of political turmoil around the world, nobody can predict the result of today’s vote. So on the day of the most nail-biting political event of the year, distract yourself with our 4 by 4th list of essential reading (in no particular order) for exploring the real issues facing the most powerful nation on earth, and understanding the enigma that is the United States
It’s Christmas next week, and the 4th Estate team are getting ready for the holidays. We’ve already told you our favourite books of the year, and our authors’ favourite books of the year, so it’s time for the most important list of all – the books we want for Christmas…
On Monday we posted our traditional list of our favourite books we read in 2015. This year we thought we’d also ask our authors to submit their favourite books – after all, they have far better taste than us. Their choices are by turns enlightening, inspiring and surprising. Be warned – your ‘to read’ list is about to get even longer…
2015 has been another great year for 4th Estate. We’ve seen Anthony Doerr’s epic All The Light We Cannot See win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Laline Paull’s extraordinary debut The Bees shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, and Bruce Robinson’s excoriating They All Love Jack longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. We’ve published some fantastic books – Jonathan Franzen’s Purity (surely the most talked-about book of the year), Nigel Slater’s long-awaited third volume of The Kitchen Diaries and Nell Zink’s iconic yellow-boxed double whammy of The Wallcreeper and Mislaid among them. We’ve hosted some stimulating Literary Salons at the Book Club in Shoreditch, and we’ve launched a stylish new video series, RE4DINGS.
We’ve been telling you how brilliant our books are all year, so as it’s Christmas, we thought we’d be charitable and highlight some of books we’ve loved from across the industry. So without further ado, here are our favourite books that we read in 2015…
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.
Today is #BallardDay, J.G. Ballard’s birthday and 4th Estate’s annual celebration of all things Ballardian. This year we asked our staff – as well as some famous Ballard fans – to tell us about the Ballardwerks that had the greatest effect on them. From ecological SF early works like The Drowned World to the near-future mystery of Super-Cannes, their choices are testament to a writing career that flourished for almost 50 years…
