December 2022 - BookBlast® Official

children's bookshow 2022 bookblast diary year in review

Andrey Kurkov, Tony Fairweather, The Children’s Bookshow (pt 2) Spotlight

December 27, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Following up on 2022 in Review, Spotlight (pt 1), lack of time has meant that mastering the TBR pile has been a frustrating challenge this year. Many fantastic books have been published in 2022 by […]

BookBlast Diary Annie Ernaux Olivier Guez Empire Windrush Frank Herbert Lesley Blanch

Annie Ernaux, Olivier Guez, Empire Windrush, Lesley Blanch (pt 1) Spotlight

December 15, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast 2022 in Review Spotlight, what an odd post-pandemic year this has been, deranged in so many ways, over and beyond the realities of Brexit hitting home, and the depressing normalization of exploitation by the […]

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European Literature Days Lucy Popescu Spotlight

December 11, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Lucy Popescu heads to European Literature Days in Austria, and writes a special report for BookBlast. It was a delight to return, in person, to European Literature Days (ELit) a three-day literary festival, held in […]