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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
This month’s top 5 books range across history, art and human survival; moving across continents, eras and genres. From minute-by-minute [...]
Reading Lists
Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
Reading around the world this month features new releases and updated classics, taking in folklore, international fantasy, dark comedy and [...]
Top 5 Books to Read
Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
This month’s Top 5 Books from around the world takes in five distinct voices embracing sun-baked Mediterranean islands, surreal, tech-fused [...]

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation BookBlast Spotlight

Bridging the Gender Divide: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Spotlight

August 26, 2026 0

When a reader strolls into a bookshop, they enter a rich universe of literary imagination, yet historically, great swathes of stories from around the world have been missing from the shelves. While translated literature as […]

Maureen Freely Translator, Novelist & Advocate Interview

August 20, 2026 0

BookBlast interview with Maureen Freely, the American novelist, journalist, professor and co-founder of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Georgia de Chamberet (GDC): Your early life bridged distinct worlds, moving from New Jersey to […]

Andrey Kurkov Awarded Orwell Foundation Special Prize bookblast spotlight

How Book Prizes Propel Authors Beyond Their Best Spotlight

June 28, 2026 Comments Off

Book prizes are the ultimate tastemakers of the literary world, providing welcome cash to authors; boosting sales for publishers and booksellers; helping readers choose high-quality fiction and nonfiction out of the thousands of books being […]

Wonderland Hanna Nordenhök BookBlast Review

Wonderland Hanna Nordenhök Review

September 2, 2026 0

Wonderland is the second novel by multi-award-winning Swedish writer and translator, Hanna Nordenhök, translated into English by Saskia Vogel. Her first, Caesaria, was published in 2024. Both novels are published in English by Héloïse Press. […]

Surface Olivier Norek Review

August 28, 2026 0

In Olivier Norek’s latest crime thriller, Surface, translated by Nick Caistor, the French author demonstrates the distinctive skill required to construct a top-notch police procedural. Genre writing demands a set pact with the reader that […]

Red River Somnath Batabyal BookBlast Review

Red River Somnath Batabyal Review

August 25, 2026 0

A coming-of-age saga, Red River centres around the fate of three boys whose childhood friendship is strained by political upheaval and violence. Set against the turbulent shifts in power in Assam in the late twentieth […]