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Wonderland Hanna Nordenhök BookBlast Review

Wonderland Hanna Nordenhök Review

September 2, 2026 Guest Contributor 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 Guest Contributor 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 […]

The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaelle Nohant BookBlast Review

The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaëlle Nohant Review

July 29, 2026 Guest Contributor 0

I read the entirety of The Bureau of Unknown Fates with the assumption that the International Tracing Service (ITS) is as fictional as Gaëlle Nohant’s protagonist, Irène. With this lack of knowledge, I followed Irène, […]

AND HOW HAVE YOU BEEN Maria Judite de Carvalho BookBlast Review

And How Have You Been? Maria Judite de Carvalho Review

June 19, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

If the title of this book by Maria Judite de Carvalho calls for an answer, it has to be, ‘As a woman, I’ve been frustrated, puzzled by the way life passes me by, with no-one, […]

Twenty Minutes of Silence Helene Bessette BookBlast Review

Twenty Minutes of Silence Hélène Bessette Review

June 18, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Kate Briggs, translator of Twenty Minutes of Silence and of Hélène Bessette’s first novel Lili is Crying, wrote in an essay for The Yale Review in September 2025: How, why, and under what material circumstances […]

Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life Samar Yazbek Review

May 20, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

In early 2024, Samar Yazbek found herself in Doha, where more than 2,500 Palestinian survivors of the genocide in Gaza were living alongside their families and receiving desperately needed medical care. Yazbek is a Syrian […]

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Night Train Xu Zechen Review

May 12, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Night Train by Xu Zechen is a campus novel with a difference: it’s set in small town China in the present day. Chen Munian is the hapless twenty-six year-old student at the centre of this […]

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Autobiography of Cotton Cristina Rivera Garza Review

May 5, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Nick Caistor, author of Mexico Inside Out, explores how Cristina Rivera Garza weaves a personal and political tapestry of Mexico in Autobiography of Cotton just published by And Other Stories. By the 1930s, the years […]