Incredible first look at RESISTANCE in the Observer today with an extract by Steve McQueen and selection of some of the fascinating archival images it gathers @4thestatebooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

John Patrick McHugh, author of Fun and Games, named as one of the Observer’s Best Debut Novelists 2025! ‘A funny and frank coming-of-age drama, propelled by the heart-swelling comic agony of the protagonist’s incapacity to act’ @4thestatebooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Major @theguardian.com books cover profile of @tonytula.com Brilliant on craft, ‘The Feminist’, politics, charlatans and satire ‘Extremely dark, mordantly, laugh-out-loud funny…morally and politically ambiguous’—REJECTION, out in Feb! @4thestatebooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

The Persians is @theguardian.com Book of the Day in a rave first review by Joanna Cannon! 'Mahloudji writes with a wisdom and confidence rarely seen in a debut, and her sharp observations are humorous and poignant' Comped to Min Jin Lee, Elif Shafak & Verghese! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

my favorite reviews of Rejection so far are like, this made me want to puke up my ribcage. don't show it to anyone or read it in public. wear head to toe PPE while you read it and perform a Shinto cleansing rite as soon as you finish. 5 stars 👍🏼

REJECTION is coming to the UK in time for Valentine's Day (do not buy as Valentine's gift, buy it for something else) www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

Delighted to welcome @tonytula.com to @4thestatebooks.bsky.social with REJECTION ‘A thrill for the sickos among us’ JIA TOLENTINO ‘Utterly inimitable’ RAVEN LEILANI ‘A book of mad, madcap genius’ GARTH GREENWELL 'The funniest, darkest thing' ST VINCENT Out Feb! www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

'It’s the best book I’ve read this year – romantic, dangerous and sexy. It made me cry and made the hair on the back of my neck stand up' SOFT CORE by Brittany Newell is a Stylist magazine best romance novels that will be everywhere!💋 @4thestatebooks.bsky.social www.stylist.co.uk/books/best-r...

Wonderful to see Adelaide Faith author of Happiness Forever and Sanam Mahloudji author of The Persians in Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2025 writers to watch! @4thestatebooks.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

‘The word-of-mouth breakout … a funny, unexpected and riotous read’ Love to see The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji in Stylist magazine’s most anticipated books of 2025! @4thestatebooks.bsky.social www.stylist.co.uk/books/2025-b...

All I want for Christmas is you, Feathers McGraw x

Thanks to the readers, fellow writers and reviewers who have made time for Hagstone; to all the festivals & bookshops who invited me to read, and to @kishani.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social @mattclacher.bsky.social @cormackinsella.bsky.social

With thanks to @kishani.bsky.social Delighted to get a proof copy of Fun and Games, the forthcoming debut novel by John Patrick McHugh. Very much looking forward to this – have heard great things. Had the privilege of hearing him read from the excellent Pure Gold a while back.

‘I thought carefully about the responsibility that my position has afforded me, and I wanted to create something with a collective spirit’ @renieddolodge.bsky.social interviewed in @theguardian.com about @monumentbooks.bsky.social! @4thestatebooks.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh is essentially unputdownable in my view. So moving, so believable, so unsparing of yet merciful towards its characters. Funny and heartbreaking (what more can you ask for?).

Lovely to see BUTTER by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton and Forest of Noise by @mosababutoha.bsky.social in Helen Charman’s @artreview.bsky.social books of the year

Great event today at the Irish Writers’ weekend at the British Library with @sineadgleeson.bsky.social talking about her novel Hagstone, alongside the brilliant @ronanhession.bsky.social and @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social on their recent books, deftly chaired by Barry Pierce

Jordan Tannahill, author of The Listeners, interviewed in the @theguardian.com as his debut novel airs as a limited series on the BBC starring Rebecca Hall www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I live for Mark Rylance as Cromwell!

There is now some hard evidence that X boosted the Trump campaign and suppressed the Harris campaign. What's to stop Musk from doing the same in other countries? www.threads.net/@profsander....

The new Francis Bacon show at the National Portrait Gallery is so interesting and affecting for bringing out the biographical and personal aspects of his work. Especially moving to see the paintings of George Dyer.

We are hiring! 4th Estate Books is recruiting for a talented Assistant Editor to work across a global list of literary fiction and non-fiction. Come join our team 👩🏾‍💻 Closes 24 Nov, vacancy here: app.beapplied.com/apply/ruxf4x...

This is an absolute pain in the arse

Happy New Year!

Currently reading the utterly brilliant Thunderclap by Laura Cumming, and so went to go find the painting in the National Gallery that opens the book, the remarkable, A View of Delft by Carel Fabritius, tucked away in a corner among some warren-like rooms.

Loved, loved the Philip Guston show at the Tate. Think Laura Cumming captured it perfectly, ‘Tragicomic, wild, ceaselessly inventive…unmissable’, in her top ten shows of the year www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A special year! Thank you to all these writers, all the many people who helped their books into the world and the readers, booksellers, reviewers and bloggers who supported them once out there.

#CeasefireNOW

'What does it feel like to stand at the edge of annihilation? I can only speak from my vantage a few degrees from the epicenter of war. Here, it feels like falling through an endless throat'. Sarah Aziza in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/dooms...

Interested in the logistics of this jacket, feel like it really takes cut outs to a whole new place. No cold shoulder this…

Love this Booker Prizes film for @escoffery.bsky.social’s Booker shortlisted debut, If I Survive You, featuring Alfred Enoch in an electric performance. So good! m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

Totally loved this book and I know you will love it too. It's going to be the talk of the town

‘Years later, while cloistered in the countryside and aching for my birthplace by the sea, I would come to understand. There was more than one way to be lost, more than one way to be saved’ Stunning excerpt from HOW TO SAY BABYLON by Safiya Sinclair in Guardian amp.theguardian.com/culture/2023...

HOW TO SAY BABYLON by Safiya Sinclair is out on Tuesday A book many years in the making and one I love with all my heart ‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER ‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES ‘Unforgettable, heartbreaking, heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK