Kishani Widyaratna
@kishani.bsky.social
Book bore
Publishing Dir, 4th Estate
Views all my own, retweets ≠ endorsement
Publishing Dir, 4th Estate
Views all my own, retweets ≠ endorsement
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
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February 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
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www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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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’
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‘A funny and frank coming-of-age drama, propelled by the heart-swelling comic agony of the protagonist’s incapacity to act’
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
January 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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’
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘A funny and frank coming-of-age drama, propelled by the heart-swelling comic agony of the protagonist’s incapacity to act’
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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!
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Brilliant on craft, ‘The Feminist’, politics, charlatans and satire
‘Extremely dark, mordantly, laugh-out-loud funny…morally and politically ambiguous’—REJECTION, out in Feb!
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
January 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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...
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...
'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...
January 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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...
'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...
‘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!
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www.stylist.co.uk/books/2025-b...
Love to see The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji in Stylist magazine’s most anticipated books of 2025!
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www.stylist.co.uk/books/2025-b...
January 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
‘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...
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
December 26, 2024 at 10:58 AM
All I want for Christmas is you, Feathers McGraw x
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
November 24, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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
I live for Mark Rylance as Cromwell!
November 17, 2024 at 8:04 PM
I live for Mark Rylance as Cromwell!
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.
November 17, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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:
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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:
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November 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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...
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...
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.
December 31, 2023 at 9:54 AM
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...
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December 30, 2023 at 11:18 AM
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...
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.
December 30, 2023 at 11:14 AM
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.
Interested in the logistics of this jacket, feel like it really takes cut outs to a whole new place. No cold shoulder this…
October 8, 2023 at 2:27 PM
Interested in the logistics of this jacket, feel like it really takes cut outs to a whole new place. No cold shoulder this…
Plus, one of my favourite answers from Safiya in the piece…
October 8, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Plus, one of my favourite answers from Safiya in the piece…
‘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...
Stunning excerpt from HOW TO SAY BABYLON by Safiya Sinclair in Guardian
amp.theguardian.com/culture/2023...
October 1, 2023 at 11:59 AM
‘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...
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
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
September 30, 2023 at 7:28 AM
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
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
