Fiction
Pomeranski Gerald Jacobs Review
BookBlast review of Pomeranski by Gerald Jacobs, a novel loosely based on his memories of Brixton in the 1950s and 1960s which was very different to the gentrified place it has become today. Now black-and […]
Month: April 2020
Interviews
Gerald Jacobs Critic & Author Interview
BookBlast interviews Gerald Jacobs, Literary Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, whose books include Judi Dench: A Great Deal of Laughter, A Question of Football, The Sacred Games, Nine Love Letters and a novel, Pomeranski. Gerald […]
Reading Lists
Top 10 Reads for Self-isolating Minds BookBlast Recommends
As a deadly virus strikes, we hope our Top 10 Reads will provide some solace and a change of ideas, however isolated we might feel! According to HISTORY UK, the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, […]
Fiction
Winter in Sokcho Elisa Shua Dusapin Review
BookBlast review of Winter in Sokcho by French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin — born to a French father and a South Korean mother like the heroine of her first novel which has gained recognition worldwide.
Interviews
Aneesa Abbas Higgins Translator Interview
BookBlast interview with translator Aneesa Abbas Higgins Aneesa Abbas Higgins, tell us a little bit about yourself. I grew up here in London – my father is Indian and my mother English, and at the […]