Making all the right noise

A converted church in NW1 was an appropriately acoustic venue for the Guardian First Book Award ceremony this week. 

Fourth Estate has a particularly good history with this prize so we were absolutely delighted when Alex Ross was able to add his name to the honours board.

His book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century has had countless rave reviews since its publication so it was a real pleasure to see it receive this accolade. 

The judges described it as ‘a triumph with a magisterial quality and marvelous scope’ and we couldn’t agree more. 

Alex has also created one of the best blogs in the business to accompany the book, his audio guide takes you through the decades and will have you clicking onto iTunes to download in no time.

A fantastic book and an extremely worthy winner.

Congratulations Alex!