4th estate catalogue july-december 2016

BOOKS FOR THE INDEPENDENT READER

4TH ESTATECATALOGUE 2016


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Publication Date 30.06.2016

TPB978-0-00-752107-4£12.99

E-book 978-0-00-750915-7

E-audio (unabridged)978-0-00-754380-9

A refreshingly modern look at the midlife crisis, delving into the truth, and the lies, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour

Out of Time Midlife, If You Still Think You’re Young by Miranda Sawyer

Miranda Sawyer’s midlife crisis began when she was 44. She felt uncomfortable; too hot, as though she had the wrong coat on. Out of Time is an exploration of this crisis. Speaking to friends, musicians and artists, Miranda asks how they too have confronted midlife, and the lessons, if any, they’ve learned along the way.

Miranda Sawyer is a journalist, arts critic and broadcaster. She lives in Brixton.

A Making a Murderer set in South Africa – a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheid


TPB978-0-00-819107-8 £14.99

E-book 978-0-00-819106-1


An investigation into the murder of a young white American activist in a South African township in 1993, this is a gripping journey through the case and its aftermath – and a lucid, eye-opening account of life today in South Africa.

Justine van der Leun has written about South Africa for Harper’s and the Guardian. She lives in Brooklyn.

We Are Not Such Things A Murder in a South African Township and the Search for Truth and Reconciliationby Justine van der Leun



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HB Demy 978-0-00-730709-8£12.99

E-book 978-0-00-816798-1


From the author of Dying Young and Daniel Isn’t Talking, a deeply absorbing and moving story of a family in crisis coming to terms with their painful past

Age of Consentby Marti Leimbach

Radio DJ Craig took a shine to Bobbie when she was only thirteen years old. He remembers their relationship as a love affair. She remembers it as abuse. Decades later, she returns to her hometown to testify against him but Craig has a witness that she could not have anticipated – her own mother, now Craig’s wife.

Marti Leimbach has written several novels, including Dying Young, which was turned into a major feature film staring Julia Roberts. Marti lives in the UK.

Borderlines by Michela Wrong‘A gripping thriller … an ambitious, multi-layered mystery’ Guardian

A British lawyer in Africa is drawn to a former rebel and an idealistic young doctor - and to actions no decent lawyer should ever contemplate.

Michela Wrong is an unrivalled authority on Africa and is the author of It’s Our Turn to Eat, I Didn’t Do It For You and In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz.

Publication Date30.06.2016

PB B-Format978-0-00-812301-7£8.99

Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan


PB B Format978-0-00-749113-1£10.99

‘A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel’ Independent

A revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father’s name – and of a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us.

Rosemary Sullivan has written poetry, fiction, biography and literary criticism. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.



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PBO978-0-00-812433-5 £7.99

E-book 978-0-00-812435-9


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 crime series. In an elegant apartment in a chilly Alpine town a cleaning lady makes a gruesome discovery: the body of her employer hanging from a chandelier.

The official version of events says it was suicide, but the incurably cynical Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone thinks otherwise.

Antonio Manzini is an actor, screenwriter, director and author. He lives in Italy.

A Cold Deathby Antonio Manzini


B Format PB978-0-00-747909-2 £7.99

E-book 978-0-00-747939-9

The bestselling modern fairytale, with a new introduction from YouTube star Luke Cutforth, who is making a Kickstarter-funded film adaptation of the novel

The Drowning of Arthur Braxtonby Caroline SmailesArthur Braxton has had enough. His mum has left, his dad is broken and he’s the laughing stock of his high school.

When Arthur runs away and shelters in an old abandoned bathhouse, he sees a naked woman swimming in the pool. From this point on, his sad little life will never be the same.

Caroline Smailes worked as a lecturer for several years before turning her hand to fiction. She lives in Liverpool.

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PB B Format978-0-00-753278-0£8.99

E-book 978-0-00-753279-7


‘Purity makes the most compelling reading, and Franzen reveals himself here to be even more a master than ever’ Evening Standard

Pip Tyler knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with student debt and a reclusive mother, but has no idea who her father is or how she’ll ever have a normal life. Purity is the story of one young woman’s quest to find her father – and a grand tale of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder from one of the major writers of our time. Jonathan Franzen is the author of four other novels, most recently The Corrections and Freedom, and five works of non-fiction and translation.

Purityby Jonathan Franzen


HB978-0-00-737834-0£25.00

A special limited edition of Ballard’s cult, post-modern novel

“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”

When Ballard smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he is introduced to a world full of head-on collisions of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity. One of the 20th century’s most seminal novels, Crash is presented in a gift edition with slipcase, facsimile signature and reproduced manuscript pages.

J.G. Ballard was at the forefront of modern British fiction for over three decades. He passed away in 2009.

Crash A Special Edition by J.G. Ballard



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TPB Demy 978-0-00-820173-9£12.99

E-book 978-0-00-820174-6


“I spent Sunday trawling the listings in my pyjamas, while eating leftover Chinese takeaway. It’s easy to become obsessive about the online dating search. It’s like the kind of feverishness that can grab you when you’ve sold one house and can’t find another.”

Middle aged and newly single, Stella Grey is embarking on a mission – to find love online. Her journey is certainly never dull, featuring marriage proposals, invitations to Tangier, badly timed food poisoning and much younger men – but will it be successful? Stella Grey is a pseudonym.

The mind-boggling, heart-rending, darkly comic story of one woman’s quest to find true love online, from the author of the Guardian column, Mid-Life Ex-Wife

Would Like To Meet An Online Dating Diary by Stella Grey


HB Demy 978-0-00-810059-9£12.99

E-book 13.09.2016978-0-00-810060-5

E-audio (unabridged)13.09.2016978-0-00-810061-2

After a lifetime spent firmly in English, New Yorker journalist Lauren Collins is struck one day to find herself newly married and living in French-speaking Geneva. As she embarks on learning French in her new surroundings, Lauren reflects on her lifelong love affair with language and her own linguistic roots.

As a Europe-based staff writer at the New Yorker, Lauren has covered stories from London, Paris and beyond.

A funny, thoughtful memoir on how our mother tongues shape our lives, from how we think, to how we fall in love

When in Frenchby Lauren Collins

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We British by Andrew Marr


B Format PB978-0-00-813092-3 £12.99

Publication Date25.08.2016 PB B-Format978-0-00-814661-0 £8.99

‘A writer of extraordinary strengths’ Guardian

A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest writers.

Joyce Carol Oates’ most recent novel is The Man Without a Shadow.

The Lost Landscape by Joyce Carol Oates

A history of Britain, told through the verse of its greatest poets.

‘Every school kid in the country should be given a free copy of this book’ Paula Byrne

Andrew Marr hosts BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show. He is also a hugely successful non-fiction author.


HB Demy 978-0-00-757660-9£20.00

E-book 978-0-00-757662-3


From the theatre’s opening in 1776, to Sergei Filin’s acid attack in 2013, the Bolshoi has long been a location where art and politics collide. In Bolshoi Confidential, renowned music historian Simon Morrison looks at this longstanding relationship between culture and political power, and the perils it often entails for dancers and politicians alike.

Simon Morrison is a Professor of Music at Princeton University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Bolshoi Confidential Secrets of the Russian Ballet - From the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison

‘Energetically researched, beautifully written... and full of serious ideas, boldly stated.’

New Yorker



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The Fortnum & Mason Cookbook by Tom Parker Bowles

Fortnum & Mason is a constantly evolving, hugely successful modern enterprise that respects its magnificent history while looking forward into the 21st century. The first Fortnum & Mason Cookbook will do the same, shining a light on the history of the best British cuisine, with delicious, contemporary modern British dishes.

Tom Parker Bowles is an award-winning food writer and the author of five cook books. He lives in London.

The first cook book from a beloved British institution and national icon


HB 978-0-00-819936-4£30.00

E-book 978-0-00-819940-1

Pretty Iconic by Sali Hughes

Sali Hughes takes us through her favourite beauty finds, from beloved, treasured favourites such as Chanel No 5, to mould-breaking game changers such as MAC’s Ruby Woo. Pretty Iconic is a personal, expert look at beauty products of the past, present and future from Britain’s most trusted beauty writer.

Sali Hughes is a journalist, broadcaster, and founder of the award-winning salihughesbeauty.com. She lives with her two sons in Brighton.

In the ever-expanding world of beauty, Sali Hughes uses her peerless expertise to curate the beauty products which no woman should be without


HB 978-0-00-819453-6£22.00

E-book 978-0-00-819454-3

Audio (unabridged)978-0-00-818184-0

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Mislaid by Nell Zink


PB B Format978-0-00-813088-6£7.99


PB B Format978-0-00-810057-5£8.99

‘A slim, strange masterpiece, and one of those alluring, elliptical, exceptional novels that I will want to keep rereading for the rest of my life’ Sunday Times

‘Mislaid catapults Zink straight into the company of not only Franzen, but also Donna Tartt and Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and John Irving. Zink takes her big-name predecessors in her stride and goes that bit weirder … An extraordinary talent’ Daily Telegraph

The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink


HB Demy 978-0-00-817917-5£14.99

E-book 978-0-00-817918-2


‘An unusual and original talent, one fearless in her approach to language and subject’ Observer

Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life—by being the conventional one. But all that changes when she inherits her father’s house in New Jersey. Finding it occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters, united in defence of smokers’ rights, she becomes enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters.

Nell Zink is the much acclaimed author of The Wallcreeper and Mislaid. She lives in Germany.

Nicotine by Nell Zink

‘A talent that is as rare and strange as a kestrel on Oxford Street’ Sunday Times



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HB Demy978-0-00-730718-0£30.00

E-book 978-0-00-730719-7

Brindisa The True Food of Spain by Monika Linton

Ranging from the most unusual artisan dishes to the essentials of Spanish cooking, this cook book draws on Brindisa’s specialist knowledge to cover the unique way good food is integral to everyday Spanish life. Brindisa: The True Food of Spain is a celebration of Spain: its food, its people and its landscape.

Founded by Monika Linton in 1988, Brindisa is a hugely respected brand and wholesaler, importing artisan Spanish foods to Britain.

The ultimate in contemporary Spanish cooking, from classic recipes and tapas dishes to information about the very best ingredients and food producers


PB B Format978-0-00-745989-6£9.99


PB B Format978-0-00-818940-2£8.99

‘A true heir to J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine, and T.H. White’s The Goshawk, this is a unique and wonderful work.’ Philip Hoare

Lockhart explores all fifteen breeding birds of prey on these shores in a book that will change how we think of our own skies.

James Macdonald Lockhart is an associate editor of Archipelago Magazine, and a literary agent at Antony Harwood Limited.

‘A pacy and … timely history of undercover war’ The Times

An engrossing human history, from the English Civil War to modern times, of the men and women who transformed how war is waged.

Andy Dougan is the author of the bestselling Dynamo: Defending the Honour of Kiev.

One Shot, One Kill by Andy Dougan

Raptor by James Macdonald Lockhart

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PB B Format978-0-00-814406-7£8.99

E-book 978-0-00-814405-0

Gluten Exposed The Science Behind the Hype and How to Navigate a Healthy, Symptom-free Life by Dr. Peter H.R. Green and Rory Jones

Thousands of people have adopted a gluten-free lifestyle, believing it’s healthier, that it will help them lose weight or increase their energy.

Gluten Exposed provides an in-depth examination of every symptom and condition associated with gluten, how gluten works in the body, what the gluten-free diet cures - and what it doesn’t.

Dr. Peter H.R. Green is the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University.

Rory Jones is a science writer and Adjunct Professor of Narrative Medicine at Barnard College of Columbia University.

The definitive book on gluten, explaining the science behind the gluten-free craze


TPB978-0-00-817234-3£12.99

E-book 978-0-00-817235-0


When we wake each morning after a night of fasting, our insulin, blood sugar and cholesterol levels fall. But eating interrupts this fast. Terence Kealey investigates the possibility that eating breakfast may not be as beneficial as previously believed; indeed it may even have hazardous repercussions, from type 2 diabetes to obesity and heart disease.

Terence Kealey is a professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham, where he served as vice chancellor until 2014.

Breakfast is a Dangerous Mealby Terence Kealey

Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it

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PB B Format978-0-00-754972-6£8.99

E-book 978-0-00-754971-9


First Bite How We Learn to Eatby Bee WilsonFrom childhood onwards, we learn how big a portion is. We learn to love broccoli - or not. But once we acquire our food habits, can we change them for the better?

An exploration of the extraordinary origins of our eating habits, First Bite explores how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives.

Bee Wilson is an award-winning food writer, reviewer and journalist. She lives in Cambridge.

‘A brilliant read; a month after finishing it, I still think of it every time I set the table’

Observer

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