This week the office has been blissfully quiet, as the staff of 4th Estate have begun to migrate for the summer. The destinations are many and varied – from birdwatching on Lesbos to partying on Ibiza. But what books are we packing into our suitcases, rucksacks and bumbags? All is revealed in this list of our Holiday Reads…
While our summer certainly feels like it’s over (or at least dwindling rapidly…), Lena Dunham’s is not. The actor, director, producer AND writer of the upcoming Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned has instagrammed her summer reading list – a nice collation of book porn to keep us going through this British autumnal blip. Read more…
‘THE UK WILL BE AS HOT AS BALI TODAY’ we read on the front page of newspapers, sighing as we’re enveloped in the body heat of our fellow commuters. As we peel ourselves out of the tube and drag our humidity tormented and sleep-deprived bodies into the office, we remember why we’re here. For the BOOKS, of course. Read more…