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Andrew Crumey, Margaret Jull Costa BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour London W1

August 31, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Andrew Crumey, Margaret Jull Costa BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour London W1
The 10×10 BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour Launch Join us at Waterstones London W1, Gower Street W1, with independent publisher, Eric Lane, founder of Dedalus Books, in conversation with Andrew Crumey and Margaret Jull Costa. Discussion […]
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BookBlast Top 5 Reads for Independent Minds  This month we showcases Ariel Khan, Teresa Solana, Fred D’Aguiar, Marinko Koščec, Oliver Bottini. There’s much excitement here at BB HQ about the 10×10 tour of superb independent […]
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An Overcoat Jack Robinson a.k.a. Charles Boyle Review

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Written in the aftermath of the 2016 referendum when the UK voted to leave the EU, Robinson is an entertaining and intellectually mischievous read. By the end of the 19th century there were over 700 […]
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Charles Boyle C B Editions Interview

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Charles Boyle at C B Editions has given BookBlast an exclusive interview He is the quintessential self-published author who also publishes books by other authors (similar to Virginia and Leonard Woolf who set up the […]
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BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour Kickstarter Campaign News Archive

August 25, 2018 Guest Contributor Comments Off on BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour Kickstarter Campaign News Archive
The BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour, a celebration of independent publishing, has grown out of the BookBlast® Diary 2016 showcase, promoting daring, risk-taking small publishers who fill a unique niche discovering talent, publishing authentic and offbeat […]
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The 10×10 BookBlast® Waterstones Tour 2018, A Celebration of Independent Publishing Tour dates: 11 Sept-15 Nov. We’ve worked over the past year on this exciting tour. Now it’s time to get on the road! 10 […]
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Quinton Skinner Author Interview

August 19, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Quinton Skinner Author Interview
BookBlast interviews author Quinton Skinner, author, who lives in Minneapolis, USA Quinton Skinner, where were you born, and where did you grow up? I was born and grew up in a working-class area of Columbus, […]
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Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Goncourt among many prizes, and short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature, talks to Georgia de Chamberet for BANIPAL […]

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