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Brothers Jackie Thomae Review

September 14, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

Jackie Thomae’s award-winning novel, Brothers, is a versatile and engaging examination of how two half-brothers raised in separate households navigate life completely isolated from each other. Following a broad, classic, realist structure, this engrossing novel […]

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

August 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

This month’s top 5 books range across history, art and human survival; moving across continents, eras and genres. From minute-by-minute reckonings with a political crisis and a chilling first-hand account of the extremes of tyranny, […]

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation BookBlast Spotlight

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

August 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 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 […]

Red River Somnath Batabyal BookBlast Review

Red River Somnath Batabyal Review

August 25, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 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 […]

Maureen Freely Translator, Novelist & Advocate Interview

August 20, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 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 […]

The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat BookBlast Review

The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat Review

August 17, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

‘A series of photographs titled, The Aquatics, featured terrified faces emerging from wastewater and flooding, ID cards floating, women hoisting babies, lamps or suitcases overhead, the swollen face of a drowned man. The images weren’t […]

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

July 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

Reading around the world this month features new releases and updated classics, taking in folklore, international fantasy, dark comedy and biography. An interior designer stumbles into a medieval parallel world; David Bowie finds reinvention in […]

My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova BookBlast Review

My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova Review

July 12, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

My Dreadful Body is an award-winning debut autofictional novella by Egana Djabbarova. Originally published in Russian and translated into English by Lisa C. Hayden, it is an unsettling, disturbing, strangely absorbing read. I was unsure […]