October is here, we’re all getting chillier (yet somehow the tube stays just as hot?) and everywhere we go, Halloween paraphernalia seems to be creeping out of various stockrooms… Although our month on the site isn’t dedicated to the scariest night of the year per se, it wouldn’t be October on the 4th Estate blog without something gothic/monstrous… Read more…
This month sees the publishing of many a 4th Estate book on the exploration and conquering of new pastures. The Museum of Things Left Behind by Seni Glaister takes us to Vallerosa: A place lost in time you’ll never have heard of before, while screenwriter Antonio Manzini’s international hit Black Run is set in the Italian Alps where what seems to be a slightly higher than usual mound of snow is in fact a corpse. Enter Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, a man stuck in a backwards Alpine town after getting on the wrong side of the wrong people. Read more…
