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…
It’s Halloween tomorrow, and tonight the 4th Estate team will be busy designing costumes, whittling pumpkins and stockpiling sweets. And most importantly, reading. Here are the books we recommend you scare yourself silly with this evening – from chilling children’s books to fearsome fiction to terrifying true crime (but including no ghost writers, suprisingly). As the Goosebumps books used to say on the cover: reader beware… you’re in for a scare…
Congratulations to those who went to collect your A Level results today. We also extend our congratulations to those who couldn’t bear to collect their results, instead crossing their fingers that everything will work out and, come the late autumn, they’ll be heading off to their university of choice (or the university chosen for them). Read more…
