The Great Guerilla Giveaway

100 books, 15 minutes and an eager Oxford crowd: today the Fifth Estate Estate rolled onto the Literary Festival Site to give away a boot-full of the finest literature – and the good people of Oxford turned out to cheer us on.

Lit fans old and young scooped up modern classics from our beautiful new Perennial Collection, leaving our alarmingly yellow vehicle considerably lighter within a speedy quarter hour. Our JG Ballard, William Burroughs, Carole Shields and quite a lot more disappeared rather swiftly into the throng outside Christ Church college, and even The Times turned up for a gander…

With our guerilla giveaway well underway I took the chance to grab some cheesy snaps of Fifth Estate’s newest fans, books in hand. Hope they appreciate it – between negotiating Oxford’s notorious one-way system and scraping through Christ Church’s narrowest of gates, I think I might just be getting a ticket…