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Unknown Host hosts BookBlast® Podcast, a arts show with 36 episodes published.
A surreal, subversive, richly allegorical work that explores political anxiety, complacency and desire through a magical realist lens, Owlish was widely praised by critics in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New
What inspires a reader to choose one book and not another? Do readers' groups stick to safe books only? Are marketing segmentation and persona-creation such a good idea? To what extent, in reality, are readers influenced
Book Club Lovers of Franz K. Burhan Sönmez with Kirsty Gunn, novelist Lovers of Franz K. by Burhan Sönmez appears to be focused on the fate of Ferdy Kaplan who is arrested in 1968 West Berlin for killing a twenty-year-ol
The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek, beautifully translated by Nick Caistor, out with Open Borders Press, is based on the forgotten conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union known as the Winter War. Norek draws on g
Byron and the Beauty: A Turkish Tale by Muharem Bazdulj, translated by John Cox (2016), is an atmospheric, fictional reimagining of Lord Byron’s 1809 travels through the Balkans. Set over two weeks in October, the novel
Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker and read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix is a stark, tragic, beautifully written novel which confronts the moral bankruptcy and paralysis of
Anton Chekhov’s short stories are staples of English literature degrees and creative writing courses alike, yet his earliest stories written between the ages of twenty and twenty-two are often overlooked. This volume of
“He wanted to forget not only what he’d done, but above all the person he was when he did it and the reasons he’d become so corrupt.” A man on the run breaks into an unoccupied flat in an isolated, half-abandoned Spanish
The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person on the second Monday of each month, hosted by Georgia de Chamberet, at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss works of fiction in English translation published in the last
Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro translated by Frances Riddle, out with Charco Press, discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly, London, in person with the author and her publisher. Shortlisted
Fathers and Fugitives by S. J. Naude translated by Michiel Heyns, out with Europa Editions, discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly, London. Fathers and Fugitives follows Daniel, a gay jo
Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Lucy North, published by Pushkin Press discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly, London. Record of a Night Too Brief is a coll
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare translated by John Hodgson discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly Ismail Kadare, the renowned Albanian novelist and poet, navigated the oppressive envir
Clara Reads Proust by Stephane Carlier translated by Polly Mackintosh discussed at the BookBlast Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly. Set in part in a hairdresser's salon in regional France this engaging novel a
The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person on the second Monday of each month, hosted by Georgia de Chamberet, at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss works of fiction in translation published in the last ten year
Pour célébrer la parution du livre 'Une femme, deux hommes Lesley Blanch, Théodore Kommissarzhevsky et Romain Gary' à la Maison de Balzac, Paris, le Mercredi 5 Juin 2024, Simon Bentolila de Lire Magazine a discuté avec G
Georgia de Chamberet at BookBlast® is delighted to interview Sian Williams, the visionary founder of the Children’s Bookshow. Discover how this much loved and hugely popular national tour of writers and illustrators of c
Prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet and academic, Abdourahman Waberi in conversation with Georgia de Chamberet about the events and cultures that have inspired him. Born in 1965 in Djibouti, he left his homeland for F
An autobiographical first novel, The Last One tells the story of Fatima and her family. The confusing polarities between different worlds and cultures that are portrayed sparked an intense Media debate in France. Althoug
Faïza Guène writes about normal people living in urban tower block estates surrounding cities like Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. Her first novel, Kiffe kiffe demain, published in England under the title Just Like Tomorrow,
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