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4th Estate Books episodes:

• 07.13.2017

  NEW VOICES: 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize Podcast #3, Being Published

  Welcome to NEW VOICES, a three-part podcast series from 4th Estate Books and a happy offshoot from the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. Each podcast will address a step in a writer's journey; from the writing process, to...

  
• 07.07.2017

  NEW VOICES: 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize Podcast #2, Getting an Agent

  Welcome to NEW VOICES, a three-part podcast series from 4th Estate Books and a happy offshoot from the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. Each podcast will address a step in a writer's journey; from the writing process, to...

  
• 06.29.2017

  NEW VOICES: 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize Podcast, #1: Being A Writer

  Welcome to NEW VOICES, a three-part podcast series from 4th Estate Books and a happy offshoot from the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. Each podcast will address a step in a writer's journey; from the writing process, to...

  
• 09.16.2016

  4 Books: Lauren Collins, author of When in French

  In 4 Books, we ask an author to answer 4 questions on the books that made them — on those books that made a significant impact at distinct junctures of their lives. It might be the book that guided them through...

  
• 06.16.2016

  4 Books: Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen

  In 4 Books, we ask an author to answer 4 questions on the books that made them — on those books that made a significant impact at distinct junctures of their lives. It might be the book that guided them through...

  
• 06.02.2016

  4 Books: Eleanor Wasserberg, author of Foxlowe

  In 4 Books, we ask an author to answer 4 questions on the books that made them — on those books that made a significant impact at distinct junctures of their lives. It might be the book that guided them through...

  
• 04.05.2016

  4 Poems: Decca Aitkenhead, author of All At Sea

  In 4 Books, we ask an author to answer 4 questions on the books that made them — on those books that made a significant impact at distinct junctures of their lives. It might be the book that guided them through...

  
• 03.09.2016

  Swallow This: A podcast with Joanna Blythman Part 1

  Hello, and welcome to the 4th Estate podcast. This week, we were lucky enough to have Britain's leading investigate food journalist Joanna Blythman in the studio answering your questions. Do you know the best butter substitute when baking? Should we...

  
• 12.22.2015

  4 Books: Nikesh Shukla and Niven Govinden

  In 4 Books, we ask an author to answer 4 questions on the books that made them — on those books that made a significant impact at distinct junctures of their lives. It might be the book that guided them through...

  
• 10.15.2015

  4 Poems: Andrew Marr

  In 4 Books, we ask an author to answer 4 questions on the books that made them — on those books that made a significant impact at distinct junctures of their lives. It might be the book that guided them through...

  
• 10.07.2015

  4 Books: Bruce Robinson

  In 4 Books, we ask an author to answer 4 questions on the books that made them — on those books that made a significant impact at distinct junctures of their lives. It might be the book that guided them through...

  
• 06.10.2015

  Confessions of a 4th Estate Podcast

  On this episode we celebrate the best and brightest of May, taking a look at Laline Paull's novel 'The Bees' - the only debut on the prestigious Baileys Prize shortlist - and another debut from our stellar new author, Claire...

  
• 06.10.2015

  4th Estate interviews 'Left of the Bang' author Claire Lowdon

  Lettice Franklin interviews Claire Lowdon, author of 'Left of the Bang', a 'Vanity Fair' for our times. Daringly, radically honest and very, very funny, this is the best novel yet about the ‘lost generation’ of young Londoners today. Left of the...

  
• 05.19.2015

  Sixteen People Who Defined Their Time - And What They Did Next: A special episode

  In this special episode of the 4th Estate Books podcast we talk to writer Chris Wright, author of one of the finest books from our sibling imprint, The Friday Project. Imagine you are the one standing on the moon looking...

  
• 03.31.2015

  Beats, ghosts and Lagondas: 4th Estate Books rounds up March

  We discovered royalty-free music. Ambitions grew. Podcasts were made. On this episode we chat to Judith Claire Mitchell, author of the beautiful 'A Reunion of Ghosts' - think 'Middlesex' meets Sylvia Plath filmed by Wes Andersen - and Ian Sansom,...

  
• 03.09.2015

  4th Estate Interviews T. Geronimo Johnson, Author of 'Welcome to Braggsville'

  In this podcast, we were more than lucky enough to speak to T. Geronimo Johnson about his novel 'Welcome to Braggsville', his writing processes, his persona; soundtrack, the challenges that he faces as a writer, and how egotistical penning a...

  
• 02.12.2015

  4th Estate Interviews Katherine Heiny, author of 'Single, Carefree, Mellow'

  In this podcast, we interview Katherine Heiny, author of the astounding set of short stories 'Single Carefree Mellow'. The literary love-child of Nora Ephron and Bridget Jones and written by an author who is incredibly witty, irreverent and charming, the...

  
• 02.06.2015

  4th Estate Interviews Scott Blackwood

  In this podcast, 4th Estate interviews the sublime and recently Grammy nominated Scott Blackwood, the author of the sublime new novel 'See How Small', which is based on the real life murders of three young girls in Texas. We speak...

  
• 01.22.2015

  4th Estate interviews Will Smith, author of Mainlander

  In this podcast, 4th Estate sits down with Will Smith, screenwriter of The Thick of It, VEEP and more, to speak about his upcoming novel Mainlander. With Candice Carty-Williams and Tom Killingbeck, Will Smith discusses novel writing, his processed, writing...

  
• 10.15.2014

  Pretty Honest Audiobook Extract

  ‘Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together’ Elizabeth Taylor Think of beauty books – cue immediate images of coffee-table photographs of ludicrously beautiful models with few clothes and fewer time restraints, works inundated with ‘up-to-date’ reviews...

  
• 09.12.2014

  An Interview with OkCupid founder Christian Rudder, author of 'Dataclysm'

  Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In ‘Dataclysm’, Christian Rudder, founder of one of the world’s biggest dating websites OkCupid, puts this flood of information to an...

  
• 09.01.2014

  4th Estate interviews Jeff VanderMeer, Author of the Southern Reach Trilogy

  "When Stephen King calls your trilogy creepy and fascinating, you know you're onto a winner". Tom Killingbeck from 4th Estate speak to Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy.

  
• 08.01.2014

  Michael Cunningham for the 4th Estate Podcast

  While it may not be seasonally appropriate, The Snow Queen is sublimely beautiful, desperately poignant and highly deserving of a spot on your summer read list. Michael Cunningham was kind enough to submit to our questioning when he was last...

  
• 06.26.2014

  4th Estate interviews Jeremy Herrin, director of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up The Bodies'

  4th Estate interviews Jeremy Herrin, director of the RSC adapted 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up The Bodies' by Dame Hilary Mantel.

  
• 05.27.2014

  4th Estate takes over the BookD Podcast: How To Read Dangerously, in conversation with Andy Miller

  4th Estate talks to Andy Miller about the fifty great books that saved his life, from 'Anna Karenina' to 'The Da Vinci Code' by way of 'Moby Dick'. Interview by Morwenna Loughman For more from Andy Miller: Website: http://mill-i-am.com Twitter: @i_am_mill_i_am For more from...

  
• 05.08.2014

  The Bees - Interview with Laline Paull, by Erin Wicks

  An exclusive interview with Laline Paull - debut author of 'The Bees', a brilliantly imagined cross between 'The Handmaid's Tale' and 'The Hunger Games'. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit...