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Books for the independent reader. Bookseller Imprint of the Year, and publishers of Hilary Mantel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Day and Nigel Slater.
Joined June 2010
DREAM COUNT by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 4 March 2025. A publishing event ten years in the making - a searing and exquisite new novel - the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires. Pre-order now:
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We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.
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As part of our commitment against racism, and to help facilitate ongoing conversations, we have also made Superior by @AngelaDSaini available as a free eBook this week. Download it now.
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An incredible sight to behold this evening. The cover of Hilary Mantel’s #TheMirrorandtheLight projected onto the walls of the @TowerOfLondon, returning the book to the very site where it thrillingly starts and ends.
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BIG. NEWS. We can confirm that #TheMirrorandtheLight – the triumphant conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy – will publish in March 2020. Find out more here:
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It’s a beautiful sunny Saturday and so how about a spring giveaway? 🌞🌷. Simply follow us and RT this to be in with a chance of winning these incredible 2021 books! . Good luck! 🍀. *Closes 25th April 23.59
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We are marking #BlueMonday with a competition to ✨💙WIN💙✨ a numbered & signed limited edition blue proof of #ReallyGoodActually by @monicaheisey! . Simply follow us and RT to be in with a chance of winning!. *Competition open until midnight 17/1, open worldwide, five available
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We are delighted to welcome @JuliaArmfield to 4th Estate with her stunning second novel. PRIVATE RITES follows three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. Coming June 2024.
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We are SO excited to launch the 4thWrite Short Story Prize, in association with the @guardian, for Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic writers. We want to read your story, whatever it may be. Entries are open NOW until the 30th April!. ➡️️. #4thWritePrize
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We want to support the extraordinary initiative of @NewhamBookshop & @JessWade to give away copies of Superior: The Return of Race Science by @AngelaDSaini and so have donated 1,000 books. Find out how you can request a copy and support the postage here.
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Introducing BUTTER, the cult Japanese novel about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case. From bestselling author Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton. 🧈 29 February 2024, pre-order your signed copy:
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We are thrilled to launch the 2023 4thWrite Short Story Prize, in association with the @guardian, for Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic writers. We want to read your story, whatever it may be. Entries are open NOW until the 2nd July. #4thWritePrize
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Greenfeast: spring, summer is the first in a pair of fast, season-led vegetable books from @NigelSlater. Greenfeast: autumn, winter will follow in October. Perfect for people who want to eat less meat, but don’t want to compromise on flavour and ease of cooking. Out in May.
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Wishing @yomiadegoke a very happy publication day! 💜. We can’t wait for everyone to read her incredible debut novel #TheList🫢
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REVEALING #CHIMAMANDANGOZIADICHIE backlist-inspired by Nigerian wax print designs - out 28/07/16! We are in love!
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We are absolutely over the moon to announce that we will be the proud publisher of @yomiadegoke's debut novel, THE LIST, coming in the summer of 2023. 🔥. A sensational, daring, page-turning debut about secrets, lies and our lives online.
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We are overjoyed to share the news that Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named the @WomensPrize ‘Winner of Winners.’ 🎉. Huge congratulations to Chimamanda. We couldn’t be more proud to publish this extraordinary book and author.
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We are beyond excited to reveal the cover of #THERAVENMASTER by @ravenmaster1 himself, Chris Skaife. Coming 4th October, this is the first behind-the-scenes account of life with the ravens at the Tower of London. 🇬🇧
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🚨 PSA: The most delectable proof of the year has landed 🚨. We'd like to introduce you to #Butter by Asako Yuzuki, a tantalising tale of food and murder. Best before 29th February 2024. 🧈
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We are so excited to announce MONUMENT BOOKS, a new imprint under 4th Estate Books, founded in collaboration with Reni Eddo-Lodge, the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race. @monumentbooks_
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We are SO thrilled to launch the 2019 Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. We want to read your story, whatever it may be. Entries are open NOW until June 7th. Go, go, go! 👉🏽 #BAMEPrize
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💫💜 #TheList is an INSTANT Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller! 💜💫. Huge congratulations to debut author @yomiadegoke, and thank you to all our readers, booksellers and bloggers who have been championing this incredible novel 🫢
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BUTTER by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton, has sold more than a whopping 150,000 copies across all formats since publication! 🧈🐄. A huge thank you to all the readers and booksellers for spreading the BUTTER love far and wide 💛
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It’s competition time! 💥👀🔥. To be in with a chance of winning one of these gorgeous limited edition proofs of GOOD INTENTIONS by Kasim Ali, one of the hottest debuts of 2022, simply RT this and follow us @4thestatebooks and @juskasim!. There are 5 up for grabs, good luck! 💙💕
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OUT TODAY 🧈🐄. The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook turned serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story 🩸. #Butter by Asako Yuzuki is out now!
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Congratulations to @NigelSlater, whose vibrant #Greenfeast is out today. Over 110 beautiful spring and summer recipes that can mostly be on the table in 30 minutes. This is perfect for people who want to eat less meat, but don’t want to compromise on flavour and ease of cooking.
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The wait is over. Ten years after the publication of ANNIHILATION, @jeffvandermeer returns to his blockbuster Southern Reach series. 🐊ABSOLUTION is out today.
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Your whole life depends on the next beat of Henry’s heart. #TheMirrorandtheLight.05.03.2020.
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We are absolutely over the moon for @jon_mcgregor who has just won Fiction Book of the Year with #RESERVOIR13 at the #Nibbies! Congratulations, Jon.
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Today at Southwark Cathedral we celebrated the life and legacy of our beloved author and friend Dame Hilary Mantel. ❤️
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We are so honoured to be publishing NOTES ON GRIEF by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, Chimamanda remembers her beloved father and examines the layers of loss and the nature of grief. Out on 13th May. 🖤
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#GIVEAWAY TIME! We’ve teamed up with @ReadingInHeels to give away beautiful boxes including one of our favourite books! RT & Like to #WIN
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5 days until the wickedly funny @HighRise_movie hits the big screen. Get yourself ready by RTing to win this bundle!
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Absolutely stunning finished copies of Frances Liardet’s #WEMUSTBEBRAVE arrived at the office yesterday. We are in love. 😍.Out on 7th February, it is one of the most beautiful books you will ever read.
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Take a minute and watch the wonderful Sarah Winman unboxing finished copies of her new novel, Still Life. Pure joy right here! 🦜🍊💛. Out on Tuesday! 💙🍋✨
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Well, well, well. What do we have here? 👀. Publishing this October from the twice Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, an irresistible collection of writing – essays, book reviews, memoir – from over thirty years contributing to the London Review of Books. #MantelPieces
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'There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded. It is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else'. Revealing the beautiful cover for @JuliaArmfield's new novel #PrivateRites!. Pre-order your signed copy from @Waterstones:
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BUTTER by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton, is the the 2024 @Waterstones Book of the Year! 🐄🧈🎉. Huge congratulations to Asako, and a massive THANK YOU to every single bookseller and reader who has supported this sensational novel. We are so proud! 💛✨. #BookoftheYear
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HUGE news! Congratulations to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2018! 👑 #PENPinterPrize
We are thrilled to announce that author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2018. She will receive the award at a public ceremony on 9 October @britishlibrary where she will deliver an address. #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #PENPinterPrize
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“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” . JOAN DIDION ❤️.5 December 1934 - 23 December 2021. 📸: Henry Clarke
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We are thrilled to launch the 2022 4thWrite Short Story Prize, in association with the @guardian, for Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic writers. We want to read your story, whatever it may be. Entries are open NOW until the 14th Aug. ➡️️. #4thWritePrize
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💅 The List nails are coming. We've teamed up with Shoreditch Nails to offer a complimentary Shape + Paint with custom nail art to celebrate the publication of #TheList! Drop in to their Shoreditch salon between 9am-12pm this Thursday and take home a book!
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We are thrilled to launch the 2024 4thWrite Short Story Prize, in association with the @guardian, for Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic writers. We want to read your story, whatever it may be . Entries are open NOW until the 22 Sept. #4thWritePrize
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Stay tuned at 10am tomorrow for a very exciting announcement! 👀
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Finished copies of @jiatolentino’s #TRICKMIRROR are in and we are in LOVE. Out in August, available for pre-order now. 😈🍀🐚🌕
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She doesn’t exist. She 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 exist. 🔹.We are SO excited to reveal the stunning cover of #GirlintheWalls by @ajgnuse - 4th Estate’s lead debut title for 2021. 🔹.Make sure your sound is turned up watching this video! 👀🕊🕰🚪
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‘OMG!!!! Have you seen #TheList?’. Unveiling the stunning cover for @yomiadegoke’s debut novel #TheList, thank you @WaterstonesCroy for hosting our beautiful window display 💜💜💜. Coming July 2023 .
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THRILLED to announce that we are publishing the iconic Julia Fox this October with her electrifying memoir, DOWN THE DRAIN. 💧. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable & riveting detail.
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As riveting as it is disturbing, #MYDARKVANESSA goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues our age is grappling with. Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, this is an era-defining novel. Proofs recently in, who’s excited?👀
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The @guardian 4th Estate Short Story Prize is BACK! This is the third year of the prize and we have been overwhelmed by the quality of the stories and the impact the prize has had. Find out how to apply here:
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Blow out the candles. The séance is about to begin. #TheOtherSideofMrsWood is the irresistible historical comedy about two rival mediums in Victorian London, coming June 2023 from @lucysmallbark 🕯️. 🔖
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We're v excited to announce (+ bring you) the film tie-in cover of #HighRise by J.G. Ballard
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We are SO delighted to announce that STILL LIFE by Sarah Winman is an instant Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller! 🦜💙. We’d like to say a HUGE thank you to all the amazing booksellers and readers who have rallied around this extraordinary novel. ✨💛. Massive congrats to Sarah! 🥂🎉
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You can also support diversity-led inclusive independent publishers across the UK by donating here. @_knightsof and @JacarandaBooks.
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▶️ 4thWrite Short Story Prize. ▶️ Story published in @guardian. ▶️ £1000 prize. ▶️ Publishing workshop with us . ▶️Judges: @BeeBabs, @CecilekvPin, @LondonHelena, @ange_tranvan, @KishWidyaratna, @justine_jordan. ❗️ONE WEEK left to enter❗️ . #4thWritePrize
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We are SO excited to share the cover of Sarah Winman's new novel, STILL LIFE. Moving from the Tuscan Hills and piazzas of Florence to the smog of the East End, Still Life is a is a sweeping, mischievous, richly tapestried story about beauty, love, family and fate. Out 10.6.21.
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On this day in 1536, Anne Boleyn was executed at the Tower of London. Watch here as Hilary Mantel reads from #TheMirrorandtheLight, which opens in the seconds following that harrowing event.
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We are SO thrilled to announce the long-list for the @guardian @4thEstateBooks BAME Short Story Prize. Massive congratulations to all our long-listed authors! Find out more about their stories here 👉🏾 #BAMEPrize
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STAY TUNED this week as we reveal the essay titles that feature in @slayinyourlane's #LoudBlackGirls, publishing this October. 🤩
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We’re delighted to unveil the longlist for the 2019 Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. 🥳 Find out more about the twelve writers and their stories here: #BAMEPrize
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Behold the beauty of these! 🌹🔥. We are so thrilled to reveal the new paperback editions of Hilary Mantel's #WolfHall and #BringUpTheBodies ahead of the release of #TheMirrorandtheLight next March, the stunning conclusion to the Thomas Cromwell trilogy.
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Welcome to London! 🐊. Jeff VanderMeer is in town and was signing copies of his books, including his new novel ABSOLUTION, at @ForbiddenPlanet this morning.
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We're delighted to announce an indies special edition, complete with exclusive extra content! .Available to pre-order at your local independent bookshop 🔖. #PrivateRites
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Paperback publication is fast approaching for the biggest selling debut novel of 2023, @monicaheisey's #ReallyGoodActually. We cannot wait!. Out 28th September. 🧡💙
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Such exciting news! ✨ Sarah Winman’s beautiful novel STILL LIFE has been chosen to appear on @sarajcox’s Between the Covers on the BBC, with the new series airing this autumn!. We cannot wait for more readers to discover this joyous story. 💙💛
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Um, look! 😍 The #SLAYINYOURLANE (@slayinyourlane) samplers are in! We are SO proud to be publishing the long-awaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women. Out 12th July.
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We are absolutely delighted to share the beautiful paperback cover of @MichaelDonkor’s debut novel #Hold - out on 2nd May. Two girls, two different worlds, one unexpected friendship.
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We’ll just leave this here. 👀. #CloudCuckooLand, the new novel from Anthony Doerr, author of the worldwide phenomenon #AllTheLightWeCannotSee, is coming this September. *SCREAMS!*
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Oh, bookshops. How we have missed you!.📚💕📚.Good luck to all the amazing booksellers out there today. Don’t forget to support your local either in person or by ordering online.
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We are proud as punch! @NigelSlater has received an OBE for services to cookery and literature. Wonderful news. Congratulations, Nigel. 🍾✨.
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#100years ago today, some women were given the right to vote. Not all, but some. A monumental day in history, but 100 years on we are still marching together for a truly inclusive society for ALL women from ALL backgrounds. 100 years, and counting! Here is to the future of women!
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📣HUGE NEWS! @yomiadegoke's debut novel #TheList is being adapted for TV by @hbomax, @bbc and @A24 🎉 .
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🌟📢 EVENT OF THE YEAR KLAXON 📢🌟.We are SO excited to announce that we have 1 TICKET up for grabs to witness Michelle Obama discuss her memoir #Becoming with our very own Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at Royal Festival Hall on Mon 3rd December. ENTER HERE:
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Oh, hello. What do we have here? 👀 We are delighted to share these beautiful new hardback editions of #WolfHall and #BringUpTheBodies to coincide with the publication of #TheMirrorandtheLight on the 5th March. *drools*
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Legend has it that if the ravens should ever leave the Tower of London, it will crumble into dust, and great harm will befall the kingdom. One man is personally responsible for ensuring that such a disaster never comes to pass – the Ravenmaster. A perfect read this #Halloween.
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Look what has arrived! 🦜. Breathtakingly beautiful finished copies of Sarah Winman’s stunning new novel, STILL LIFE. 💛💙. And just *look* and those incredible Florence Duomo end papers. We are in total awe of this book’s beauty, inside and out! ✨. Out 1st June, pre-order now.
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Has a book ever been more timely? 👀 The essential #HOWTOLOSEACOUNTRY by @ETemelkuran publishes in paperback today. Read it. Read it now.
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What better way to spread Christmas cheer than by offering you lovely lot the chance to win bundles of our beautiful books? 🌟🎄. You guessed it, the 4th Estate Christmas Advent Calendar is back!. To be in with a shot of winning a set of #MatchbookClassics, simply follow & RT!
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Mood.
bill nighy reading joan didion alone at lunch the only man i respect
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We are so delighted to announce the acquisition of a new novel by @CecilekvPin, CELESTIAL LIGHTS 💫. A heartbreaking meditation on memory, manhood, love and the sacrifices required to achieve greatness, partly inspired by the myth of Odysseus. Publishing June 2025 ☄️
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We are so thrilled to share our new Collins Modern Classics list in collaboration with our sister imprint, @wmcollinsbooks. 💥. A paperback library of literature featuring some of the most significant books of recent times. Incredible design by @byjotho. Publishing 13th May.
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We're delighted to brighten your Friday morning by revealing the gorgeous cover for WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, the dazzling new collection of short stories from Yiyun Li!✨. Spanning a decade of writing, Yi demonstrates why she is one of our finest living authors. Out 14th September 2023
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We are thrilled to unveil the longlist for the 2021 4thWrite Short Story Prize! 🎉. The standard of entries was incredibly high, and we want to thank everyone who submitted a story. Congratulations to our longlisted writers! . ➡️ #4thWritePrize
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Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, #MrsS is a tale of queer love, set in an elite English boarding school, that smoulders with the heat of summer. We'll be sending out early proof copies very soon.
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WINNER of the Costa Book Award for BEST NOVEL is #RESERVOIR13 by Jon McGregor. Massive congratulations!!
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Revealing the stunning cover of WITNESS by @jamelbrinkley. An electric new collection of stories set in contemporary New York. Out 3rd August. 👁️. ‘Brinkley’s sentences are daggers’ Raven Leilani. ‘A dazzling collection’ Yiyun Li. ‘A revelation’ Garth Greenwell
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Tonight’s the night! 🏆. As we get ready for the #BookerPrize2023 ceremony, we wanted to say thank you everyone that has championed IF I SURVIVE YOU. We are enormous proud to publish Jonathan Escoffery’s sensational debut. Good luck Jonathan!
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W O W. Just LOOK at these incredible flags displayed at @Foyles Charing Cross to mark the release of #TheMirrorandtheLight next week. We are obsessed!😍. #WolfHall #TheMirrorandtheLight
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