February 2017 - BookBlast® Official

The Past Alan Pauls BookTrust BookBlast® Archive

February 26, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast review of The Past by Alan Pauls, an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter. Georgia de Chamberet periodically reviewed translations by up-and-coming writers for BookTrust in 2008. The Past, first published in the […]

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René Magritte Selected Writings Review

February 20, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

A thinker, René Magritte was in permanent revolution against banality and crass assumptions. He communicated his ideas through paintings, which he called “visible thoughts,” upending society’s conventions. He united the familiar in unexpected ways to […]

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Ricarda Huch The Last Summer Interview

February 18, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The Last Summer by Ricarda Huch, superbly translated by Jamie Bulloch, is a welcome rediscovered classic thanks to Peirene Press. “We aged a hundred years, and this Happened in a single hour: The short summer […]

Jamie Bulloch Translator Interview

February 18, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Jamie Bulloch, translator Jamie, tell us a little bit about yourself. I’m forty-seven, married with three daughters and live in London, where I was born. Outside of books, I love cooking, gardening, […]

Andrew Lycett Author Interview

February 4, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Andrew Lycett, author Andrew Lycett, tell us a bit about yourself. Where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and was then spirited out […]

Professor Elton Mayo

The Three Faces of Elton Mayo J H Smith New Society BookBlast® Estates

February 1, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Elton Mayo was born in Australia one hundred years ago this month (on December 26, 1880) and died in a nursing home in Guildford almost sixty-nine years later. Towards the end of his life, through […]