‘My novel Mainlander is set in Jersey over twelve days in October 1987. It features some very tangled relationships, so here I have tried to imagine how the characters would have approached Valentine’s Day, had it fallen within the timeframe of the book.’ Read more…
Red Lipstick is the Little Black Dress of beauty. No item sums up beauty so succinctly – if you had to imagine a make-up item, you would probably picture a red lipstick before foundation or mascara. Red is powerful, strong, smart, bold, sexy, lethally feminine and iconic (try to imagine Marilyn Monroe without her glossy, orangey-red lips – it’s not possible). Read more…
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Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at 4th Estate! We’ve made a mixtape of literary lovesongs for you. Aren’t we just adorable?
As some of you may know (and many of you may not), tomorrow is St Valentine’s Day. How better to celebrate it than to bake your love (or yourself) a sweet, sweet treat in the form of these deliciously rich and indulgent dark and white chocolate brownies from A Love for Food? Read more…
This month our blog theme is ‘Love in All its Forms’ – we’re celebrating the diverse ways in which love is depicted in literature – so we asked our authors to tell us who their dream fictional date would be. Laline Paull would hop into a hot air balloon with Lord Asriel from Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ and fly to a party in West Egg, New York…
This month our blog theme is ‘Love in All its Forms’ – we’re celebrating the diverse ways in which love is depicted in literature – so we asked our authors to tell us who their dream fictional date would be. Seni Glaister is torn between an 18th Century cad and a brooding Cornishman…
This month our blog theme is ‘Love in All its Forms’ – we’re celebrating the diverse ways in which love is depicted in literature – so we asked our authors to tell us who their dream fictional date would be. Will Smith would like to cheer up Lucy Snowe from Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’…
