Книги 4th Estate

Going after Cacciato | Winner of the National Book Award, 'Going After Cacciato' captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked the Vietnam War, this strangest of wars. In a ble...

The Good Terrorist | A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era and winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction. In a London sq...

The List | Online rumours. Real life trouble. Ola Olajide, a high-profile journalist, is marrying the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, successful - she and her fiance Michael se...

Bring Up The Bodies | With this historic win for ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes, as well as being the fir...

Greenfeast. Autumn, Winter | The second in a pair of fast, season-led vegetable books from beloved author and cook Nigel Slater. 'Much of my weekday eating contains neither meat nor fish… It is simply...

The Pages | The new novel about the transformative power of art, the weight of history and the strange connection we make with one another from the author of The Speckled People. Narrated in the voice...

Empire of the Sun | Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will ...

Sea State. A Memoir | Tabitha Lasley left her job, her relationship and London, and headed to Aberdeen to meet offshore oil rig workers. She wanted to see what men are like with no women around. She s...

What We’re Teaching Our Sons | Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We’re teaching our sons about money; about hear...

We Must Be Brave | We can’t choose who we love. We can choose who we fight for. Ellen Parr has always been sure she never wanted children. But when she finds a young girl asleep and unclaimed at the b...

Kingdomtide | The lives of two women - the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her - intersect in a gripping debut novel of second thou...

Woke Up This Morning. The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos | Who made the phone call that got HBO to launch the show? What’s the significance of all those eggs? And, what the hell ever happened...

The God Species. How Humans Really Can Save the Planet... | The green movement has got it very wrong. Nature no longer controls our planet – it is humanity, ‘the god species’, that must save the envir...

Barkskins | From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the t...

Plume | The dark, doomy humour of Care of Wooden Floors mixed with the fantastical, anarchic sense of possibility of The Way Inn, brought together in a fast moving story set in contemporary London. Ja...

Angela's Ashes | Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story o...

The Kitchen Diaries | Classic cookery writing from the award-winning food writer and author of bestselling autobiography, ‘Toast’. ‘The food in “The Kitchen Diaries” is simply what I eat at home. The ...

The Harmony Silk Factory | A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth cen...

Map of the Invisible World | From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning 'The Harmony Silk Factory' comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and...

The World I Fell Out Of | On Good Friday, 2010 Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back. She was 52. Paralysed from the top of her chest down, she was to spend...

I Wish I Knew This Earlier. Lessons on Love | We've all been on promising dates that left us feeling worse in the long run, suffered from breakups we might have mishandled, or stayed in relationships ...

Albert & the Whale | An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan. Albrecht Durer changed the way we saw nature through art....

Learning to Talk. Short stories | A companion piece to the captivating memoir Giving Up the Ghost by the Man Booker-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, this co...

A Cold Death | Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally bestselling series from Italian cri...

The Way We Eat Now. Strategies for Eating in a World of Change | A riveting exploration of the hidden forces behind what we eat, The Way We Eat Now explains how modern food has transformed our lives a...

Concrete Island | A chilling novel about our modern world, from the author of ‘Empire of the Sun’ and ‘Crash’. Robert Maitland, a 35 year-old architect, is driving home from his London offices when a ...

Fabulous | Not since Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders’ Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday been so magica...

One Two Three Four. The Beatles in Time | Winner Of The Baillie Gifford Prize 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the Year * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A Sunday Times Book of the Y...

The Kitchen Diaries II | Includes over 250 recipes, with a selection from his BBC TV series Dish of the Day, Simple Suppers and Simple Cooking. From Nigel Slater, presenter of Dish of the Day and one ...

Innocence | A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes. Innocence is set in the 1950s, when ...

The Bookshop | In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change ...

The Things They Carried | The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. ‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its...

All The Light We Cannot See | A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World ...

Magpie | When Marisa meets Jake, everything falls into place. But then their new lodger Kate arrives. Something isn’t right about her. It’s the way she looks at Jake, keeps her toothbrush right next t...

Early Morning Riser | Jane easily falls in love with Duncan: he's charming, good-natured, and handsome. He has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfr...

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke | The second book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Marti...

Beyond Black | Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Hilarious and sinister, ‘Beyond Black’ is a tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England. Alison Hart is a medium by trade: d...

Every Day Is Mother's Day | From the author of the Man Booker prize-winners Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies comes a story of suburban mayhem and merciless, hilarious revenge. Barricaded inside their...

The Man on the Balcony | The third book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck ...

M. Son of the Century | A startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical fiction. M tells the story of the rise of fascism from ...

RisingTideFallingStar | From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery plan...

The Yiddish Policemen's Union | What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska - and not Israel - had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'A...

Feast Days | So. We were Americans abroad. We weren't the doomed travellers in a Paul Bowles novel, and we weren't the idealists or the malarial, religion-damaged burnouts in something by Greene; but ...

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch | The plague is spreading. The Thirty Years’ War is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch. An illiterate widow, Katherina Kepler is known by her n...

Zorro | Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since 'Portrait in Sepia' - beautiful, disturbing and atmospheric. Beneath the mask, there is a man. And in his heart burns the fire of in...

Girl in the Walls | She doesn't exist. She can't exist. 'Those who live in the walls must adjust, must twist themselves around in their home, stretching themselves until they're as thin as air. Not ev...

Reservoir 13 | Winner of the 2017 costa novel award A Guardian book of the year An FT book of the year A TLS book of the year A Telegraph book of the year From the award-winning author of If Nobody Sp...

Cop Killer | The ninth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s – the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck seri...

Victorians Undone. Tales of the Flesh in the Age | A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. Why did the great philosophical novelist Ge...

Scabby Queen | Three days before her fifty-first birthday Clio Campbell – one-hit wonder, political activist, lifelong love and one-night-stand – kills herself in her friend Ruth’s spare bedroom. And,...

Breathe | Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take residency at a distinguished academic institute. But then Gerard is stricken with a ...

The Listeners | A masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy, and mania in contemporary America. While lying in bed next to her husband one night, Claire Devon hear...

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street | From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. ...

Empire of the Sun | The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. B...

The Creativity Code. How AI is learning to write, paint and think | Can Machines Be Creative? In The Creativity Code, Marcus du Sautoy examines the nature of creativity, asking how much of our emotion...

Standard Deviation | A divinely funny novel about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raising children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not taken. ...

The Day of Creation | In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient t...

Year of Wonders | From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'March' and 'People of the Book'. A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plagu...

The Trackers | The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch trav...

The Pages | The new novel about the transformative power of art, the weight of history and the strange connection we make with one another, from the author of The Speckled People. The narrator of The ...

Notes on Grief | A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. Y...

Tell Me How it Ends. An Essay in Forty Questions | A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American chil...

The Lover’s Dictionary. A Love Story in 185 Definitions | How does one talk about love? We are all beginners when it comes to love, from those tentative first dates to learning how to live with, or wi...

Roseanna | The first book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were th...