May 2016 - BookBlast® Official

Arab Jazz Karim Miské Review

May 29, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Although a thriller, Arab Jazz is really about muddled identities, lives destroyed by religious extremism, and dysfunctional families coexisting in fragile racial harmony in impoverished neighbourhoods. The narrative travels between the ungentrified 19ième arrondissement of […]

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Oh, Freedom! Francesco d’Adamo Review

May 22, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Oh, Freedom!, winner of the Premio Asti D’Appello Junior, is an engrossing adventure story about a family of runaway slaves in the USA in 1860. “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, […]

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Ghassan Fergiani Darf Publishers Interview

May 21, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with the founder of Darf Publishers Ghassan Fergiani, tell us a bit about yourself. Are (were) your parents great readers? My father was a teacher, a bookseller and a publisher. He was a […]

Siân Williams Translator Interview

May 21, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast Interview with Siân Williams, translator Siân Williams, tell us a little bit about yourself. I’m a translator and the founder of The Children’s Bookshow, a national tour of writers and illustrators of children’s literature […]

Melanie Schwapp Author Interview

May 16, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Melanie Schwapp, author Melanie Schwapp, tell us a little bit about yourself. I love life . . . the good, the bad and the messiness of it. I love the fact that […]

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Dew Angels Melanie Schwapp Review

May 16, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Dew Angels is one of the best young adult novels I have read in a long time. It’s not just Melanie Schwapp’s strong, lucid writing; believable, engaging characters; compelling plotlines; and snappy pace, but also […]

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Betty Boo Claudia Piñeiro Review

May 8, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Claudia Piñeiro is Argentina’s leading crime and mystery writer who has created “A new literary genre: paranoid fiction. Everyone is a suspect; everyone feels pursued,” Ricardo Piglia. Beef, gauchos and the tango. Eva Perón, military […]

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François von Hurter Bitter Lemon Press Interview

May 6, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with François von Hurter, Bitter Lemon Press CEO François von Hurter, tell us a bit about yourself. Are (were) your parents great readers? With a Greek mother and a Swiss/Austrian father, the bookshelves […]