Be sure to check out our Hay gallery! Lots of pics from Louise and a few from me. In the meantime, here’s my experience of my second day at Hay… Continue reading »
Hay Festival 08
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Rain, basically. What is it about me and festivals? I act like some sort of precipitation magnet. Clouds seem to gather without warning, winds whip up in all directions wherever I walk, rain from some vengeful event-hating god lashes my back. It can only be a party in British Summertime. Continue reading »
Rejoice! The Fifth Estate Sampler has arrived, straight from our brains to your eyes… Continue reading »
Do bring sunglasses and wellies
On Saturday afternoon, the garden of deckchairs was full of Guardian-reading festival-goers, licking icecreams, drinking fizz and shading their eyes from the sun. But the wind whipping through the colourful flags around the site was a warning…on the midnight news on Radio 4 the announcer forecast 60mm of rain… Continue reading »
Those of us who work in literary fiction are used to hearing, and moaning, that it is increasingly difficult to sell any books without winning a prize – but every so often there is a book that catches a wave and manages to sell through nothing more tangible than buzz and word of mouth.
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The biggest literary festival in the UK is now on and for a few days and Fifth Estate is going to be there.
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