June 2018 - BookBlast® Official

Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds XII BookBlast Recommends

June 24, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast’s Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds for this month take in calypso and a debut children’s book by Junot Díaz; Europe and the Middle East; murder most foul in the Australian Outback; tales of […]

Journey into the Mind’s Eye Lesley Blanch, NYRB Classics News Archive

June 16, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast Estates News: Journey into the Mind’s Eye by Lesley Blanch reissued by New York Review of Books Classics Lesley Blanch: “My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will […]

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The Chilli Bean Paste Clan Yan Ge Review

June 11, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of The Chilli Bean Paste Clan by Yan Ge. Winner of a PEN Translates Award “Chilli bean paste was big business, had been for Gran’s family for four or five generations. Sichuan peppers, […]

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Yan Ge Author Interview

June 10, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Yan Ge, author Yan Ge, where were you born, and where did you grow up? I was born in a small town outside of Chengdu, a major city in the southwest of […]