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Andrew Crumey Author Podcast

November 24, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Andrew Crumey Author Podcast
BookBlast® Podcast with Andrew Crumey, author Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Allan Massie, Val McDermid, Andrew O’Hagan, Ian Rankin, Ali Smith, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner . . . the list of fine Scottish writers […]
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It’s a wrap! BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour News Archive

November 18, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on It’s a wrap! BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour News Archive
The inaugural BookBlast® Waterstones 10×10 Tour was wrapped up on a night of political disunity and meltdown as Brexit hit the road. So we were only too relieved to be hosting the concluding event of […]
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Dedalus Chris McCabe Review

November 11, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Dedalus Chris McCabe Review
BookBlast review of Dedalus by Chris McCabe, the sequel to James Joyce’s Ulysses. “Too poetical that about the sad. Music did that. Music hath charms. Shakespeare said. Quotations every day in the year. To be […]
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Chris McCabe Author Interview

November 5, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Chris McCabe Author Interview
BookBlast interview with Chris McCabe, author Chris McCabe, where were you born, and where did you grow up? Mill Road hospital Liverpool, and then in Liverpool (built on the site of a Victorian workhouse), until […]
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David Henningham at Henningham Family Press Interview

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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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