Stranger Than...

5th Estate

Stranger Than... a series of 15 non-fiction classics, coming to a bookseller near you. To mark the collections launch, Perennial, Foyles and 5th Estate organised a collaborative day-long celebration, where a host of published writers and book industry folk discussed how non-fiction works, how to write non-fiction and why the format is so successful.

  • 5 minutes 7 seconds
    Nigel Slater Autumn Podcast 2
    Second Autumn podcast from Nigel Slater.
    10 September 2007, 12:00 am
  • 5 minutes 48 seconds
    Nigel Slater Autumn Podcast 1
    Part one of two Autumn podcasts from Nigel Slater.
    10 September 2007, 12:00 am
  • 4 minutes 55 seconds
    Nigel Slater Spring Podcast 2
    Second Spring podcast from Nigel Slater.
    1 April 2007, 12:00 am
  • 5 minutes 42 seconds
    Nigel Slater Spring Podcast 1
    Part one of two Spring podcasts from Nigel Slater.
    1 April 2007, 12:00 am
  • 4 minutes 6 seconds
    The Personal and the Political
    What are the differences in approaching the personal memoir and the political biography?
    23 March 2007, 12:00 am
  • 57 minutes 18 seconds
    A Life Writing Masterclass
    How do you teach someone to write non-fiction?
    16 March 2007, 12:00 am
  • 54 minutes 14 seconds
    From the Page to the Screen
    What makes a good film adaptation and how does a producer identify and adapt a book for the screen?
    9 March 2007, 12:00 am
  • 53 minutes 7 seconds
    Writing Fiction and Non-Fiction
    What are the differences between writing fiction and non-fiction?
    2 March 2007, 12:00 am
  • 52 minutes 2 seconds
    The Art of Autobiography
    Xandra Bingley, Antonia Quirke & Salena Godden. What drives a writer to write an autobiography? What makes a memoir unique? And what is it about them that so appeals to publishers and readers? Three outstanding memoirists talk about their very different experiences of writing about their own lives. They are joined by Arabella Pike, Publishing Director of Harper Press and the event is chaired by Observer interviewer and writer Rachel Cooke.
    23 February 2007, 12:00 am
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