It has been 10 years since Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Orange Prize-winning masterpiece Half of a Yellow Sun was published. Last year the novel was awarded the prestigious honour of the The Baileys Prize Best of the Best and this year we celebrate the 10th Anniversary with a set of stunning new editions. All four books are available now at all good bookshops, or via the links below.
Purple Hibiscus
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Thing Around your Neck
Americanah
As we’ve been seeing across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc for the past two weeks, you guys are in love with our Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reissues. Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus, The Thing Around Your Neck and Americanah have had a makeover by cover designer Jo Walker and boy, do they look good. Read more…
Merry Christmas! If, like us, you’ve had your dinner and would like to take yourself to a quiet corner with something good to read and a cup of tea (or a second Christmas dinner- why not?) , rather than get into yet another discussion about politics or similar tricky topics with your aunt’s husband, then we have a treat for you.
Kindle have discounted a whopping 12 of our bestselling titles. Just click on the tiny price next to each title below and you’ll be able to read Wolf Hall, Americanah, All the Light We Cannot See, Pretty Honest and many more in an instant. With enough titles to take you through to 2016, you’ll have a very happy new year too. Read more…
Dambisa Moyo. Isabel Dos Santos. Vera Songwe. Alengot Oromait. Lupita Nyong’o. These women are just some of the offerings from the second largest Continent on earth, Africa. Over the short few decades of post-colonial Africa, women from all reaches of the Continent have become just as highly valued a commodity as the land’s gold, oil and cocoa. Moreover, if we expand our understanding of what it means to ‘be African’ – that is, to trace back ones descendants to the land (though let’s not go too far back) the 54 glorious nations give you Condoleezza Rice, Zadie Smith, Dr Aileen Alleyne, Oprah, Beyoncé. These women are no small gifts. Read more…
Last night saw Stylist magazine align their inaugural book club with the 4th Estate Literary Salon for the first time, to present ‘In Conversation With’ author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The event was held at the beautiful Walforf Hilton hotel in London. Ahead of the Bailey’s Prize, the winner of which will be announced on the 4th of June, Chimamamda read an extract from the shortlisted Americanah, going on to discuss the motifs of love, family and politics within the book with Stylist, as well as her own upbringing and resulting attitudes to love, sex and language.
4x4th Estate brings you four novels focal on Black identity, looking at how it shapes and inspires.
To make up for a missed post last week, today we err from the trodden path of five best internet things and bring you the six articles, videos and ideas that we’ve been sharing and discussing this week. We hope you enjoy sharing them too. Read more…
