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Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds XIII BookBlast Recommends

July 31, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds XIII BookBlast Recommends
This month’s top 10 reads from Book Blast comes late since preparations for the exhilarating BookBlast Waterstones 10×10 Tour have eaten up time. We bring you a sequel to the lodestar of Modernist writing, mind […]
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Vernon Subutex 2 Virginie Despentes Review

July 27, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Vernon Subutex 2 Virginie Despentes Review
Virginie Despentes debut novel Baise-moi (Fuck Me) was an overnight sensation in France, selling 50,000 copies for éditions Florent Massot in 1994 before being picked up by éditions Grasset and J’ai Lu. Today sales of […]
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Jackie Law Never Imitate Blog Interview

July 22, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Jackie Law Never Imitate Blog Interview
BookBlast interview with Jackie Law, ‘Never Imitate’ book blogger @followthehens Jackie Law, where were you born, and where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Belfast during The Troubles. My parents grew […]
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BookBlast Waterstones 10×10 Tour Full Books Listings News Archive

July 15, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on BookBlast Waterstones 10×10 Tour Full Books Listings News Archive
THE BOOKBLAST WATERSTONES 10×10 TOUR A Nationwide Festival of Independent Publishing! Book Info & Authors A carnival of authors, poets, translators and publishers, under the banner of trailblazing marketing & literary agency BOOKBLAST® will be […]
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BookBlast Waterstones 10×10 Tour News Archive

July 9, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on BookBlast Waterstones 10×10 Tour News Archive
BookBlast® News & Events BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour A CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING 11 SEPT – 15 NOV 2018 A Nationwide Festival of Independent Publishing! A carnival of authors, poets, translators and publishers, under the […]
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Toby Litt Author Interview

July 1, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Toby Litt Author Interview
BookBlast interview with Toby Litt, author, mentor and academic based at the University of Southampton. How has Ampthill changed from when you were growing up there in the 1970s? When I was five or six, […]
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Wrestliana Toby Litt Review

July 1, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Wrestliana Toby Litt Review
“I decided to write a book about William, and to pay tribute to him by calling it Wrestliana. By doing this, I would explicitly take William on, on his home ground. Because all of this […]

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Two deliciously dark novels by Marie Darrieussecq Two deliciously dark novels by Marie Darrieussecq reviewed for BookBlast by @emily.unwin 
How to Make a Woman @fittzcarraldoeditions and Our Life in the Forest @transitbooks form a razor-sharp social duet dissecting womanhood, autonomy and the disturbing pressures of modern existence. 
If you love unsettling, atmospheric French fiction that lingers in the mind, The Handmaid’s Tale, or feminist dystopias, these are perfect reads.
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This week, BookBlast brings you a curated collecti This week, BookBlast brings you a curated collection of some of the best contemporary writing from Albania, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. These translations capture the wit, grit and complex soul of the Balkan peninsula past and present. 
Immerse yourself in The Siege by Ismail Kadare, a compelling, fictional account set in pre-Ottoman Albania against the backdrop of an impending war, Café Europa by Slavenka Drakulić, a collection of essays which traverse daily life in various Eastern European countries acclimatising to the fall of Communism, Belladonna by Daša Drndić, an intense, psychological novel that exposes the cruelty of historical artefacts and events, the timeless classic Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić, which entwines ancient Eastern European mythology through interconnected stories, and finally Byron and the Beauty by Muharem Bazdulj, a historical fiction inspired by the Romantic poet’s famous journey through the Balkans. 
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