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Frank Wynne Translator Interview

July 30, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Frank Wynne Translator Interview
BookBlast interview with Frank Wynne, translator Frank Wynne, tell us a little bit about yourself. I was born in Sligo, Ireland and while I was a good student, and a precociously gifted musician, I did […]
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Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds, BookBlast® Recommends

July 9, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds, BookBlast® Recommends
BookBlast® Recommends brings you the first of its monthly Top 10 reads for Independent Minds, showcasing the internationalist originality of indie publishers. There’s something for everyone – enjoy! Fantasy & Shamanism Lin Man-Chiu, The Ventriloquist’s […]
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Paul Muldoon,Sadie & the Sadists Book Launch News Archive

July 4, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Paul Muldoon,Sadie & the Sadists Book Launch News Archive
Eyewear Book Launch: Paul Muldoon: Sadie and the Sadists Launch @TrumanBrewery @RoughTradeEast Tonight’s your chance to catch the legendary Paul Muldoon performing from a new @EyewearBooks collection @RoughTrade East @TrumanBrewery 91 Brick Lane, London E1 […]
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Ra Page Comma Press Interview

July 2, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Ra Page Comma Press Interview
BookBlast interview with Ra Page, Comma Press founder and CEO  Ra Page, tell us a bit about yourself. Are (were) your parents great readers? Absolutely, both of them. My parents hoarded books, and they read […]
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Protest! Stories of Resistance (ed.) Ra Page Review

July 2, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Protest! Stories of Resistance (ed.) Ra Page Review
Protest! Stories of Resistance is a superb anthology edited by Ra Page, CEO and Founder of Comma Press. He has edited over twenty anthologies. “Our own, personal experience of the event – as it unfolded […]
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Stuart Evers Author Interview

July 2, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Stuart Evers Author Interview
BookBlast Interview with Stuart Evers, author Stuart Evers, thank you for doing this exclusive interview. Where were you born, and where did you grow up? I was born and raised in a small market town […]

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This week, BookBlast spotlights a selection of lit This week, BookBlast spotlights a selection of literature from India translated from Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and Assamese. These works capture the lived experience and heartbeat of the sub-continent, including numerous languages and regional dialects, ranging from the intimate domestic sphere to great epics. 
Our chosen books feature the 2022 International Booker Prize Winner, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, which is a powerful meditation on gender, age and family conventions recounted from myriad narrative perspectives, Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag, a tense and engrossing family drama set over the course of four days, One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, a contemporary Indian novel which scrutinises and subverts patriarchal expectations of marriage, the anthology A Fistful of Moonlight which collates contemporary writing from Assam through fourteen distinct stories, and finally Dog Star by Nabarun Bhattacharya, a chilling, dystopian allegory that reimagines a city’s relationship with its abandoned animals. 
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Ranging from the international bestseller Lázár by Nelio Biedermann, a multigenerational family saga with a gothic twist, the confrontational complicity of wartime legacy in Ludwig's Room by Alois Hotschnig, to the indulgent humour of Christian Kracht’s tragicomic, International Booker Prize nominee Eurotrash, these novels scrutinise the search for identity in the shadow of history. 
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