Founded in Notting Hill in 1984 on a shoestring budget and acquired by HarperCollins in 2000, 4th Estate is one of the most innovative imprints in the publishing industry, with a reputation for producing critically acclaimed and beautifully designed titles. We published Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, which made her the first woman and first British writer to win the Booker Prize twice. We are the home of Anthony Doerr, whose All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. We publish the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning authors Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Philip Hoare, and the Costa Novel Award winner Jon McGregor.
We explore American life with authors such as Jonathan Franzen, Annie Proulx, Michael Chabon and Valeria Luiselli, and celebrate African and Asian literature with the likes of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Tash Aw. We inspire cooks with books by Nigel Slater, Giorgio Locatelli and Anna Jones, and our non-fiction authors – Lena Dunham, Matt Ridley, Jia Tolentino and Hadley Freeman among them – influence the opinions and beliefs of readers around the world. We champion diverse British voices like Inua Ellams, Michael Donkor, Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené, and seek out new ones with our annual BAME Short Story Prize. Our office bookshelves are lined with classics from writers like J.G. Ballard, Joan Didion, Penelope Fitzgerald, Arundhati Roy and Joyce Carol Oates. From fiction to cookery, biography to polemic, 4th Estate is the home of literature at its best.