April 2016 - BookBlast® Official

Ana Pérez Galván Hispabooks Interview

April 30, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Ana Pérez Galván, Hispabooks founder & CEO Tell us a bit about yourself. Are your parents great readers? No, my father is a voracious newspaper reader, but not a book reader. My […]

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Peter Bush Translator Interview

April 30, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Peter Bush, translator Tell us a little bit about yourself. I had a happy childhood on council estates in Lincolnshire on the edge of the Fens. My father was a typographer, so […]

A Bad End Fernando Royuela Bookblast review

A Bad End Fernando Royuela Review

April 29, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

In the novel A Bad End, by Fernando Royuela, an ageing midget looks back over his life and loves and losses to hilarious effect. Beautifully translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush, A Bad End […]

Ludwig’s Room Alois Hotschnig, Henrietta Foster Review

April 19, 2016 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Ludwig’s Room by Alois Hotschnig, translated by Tess Lewis, reviewed by Henrietta Foster for BookBlast. Alois Hotschnig sent me a copy of Ludwig’s Room about a year or so ago. Accompanying the book was a […]

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Sex in the City Nineteenth-century Paris & London Explorations

April 10, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Sex in the City for women of the demi-monde living in nineteenth-century Paris and London involved living a racy, scandalous and at times, dangerous, lifestyle. Nana and Prostitution In his planning notes for Nana, the […]

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Zola and the Victorians Eileen Horne Review

April 2, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Borne out of a personal fascination with the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century, Zola and the Victorians by Eileen Horne is a work of imaginative narrative non fiction which is a […]

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Eileen Horne Author Interview

April 2, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Eileen Horne, author Eileen Horne, tell us a little bit about yourself It is hard to decide which little bit is worth telling! For the purposes of this questionnaire: I am a […]