April 2024 - BookBlast® Official

The Childrens Book Project Spotlight feature bookblast diary

The Childrens Book Project BookBlast Spotlight

April 25, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The work of the charity, The Childrens Book Project, is heartwarming, inspiring and innovative: it is dedicated to helping children build a personal book collection of their own at home. This is a ground breaking […]

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Andreï Makine My Armenian Friend Review

April 20, 2024 Ben F Comments Off

BookBlast review of My Armenian Friend by Andreï Makine My Armenian Friend is a gentle narrative about a grim place by the Russian-born French author, Andreï Makine, who grew up during the Soviet era and […]

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The Devils’ Dance Hamid Ismailov Review

April 11, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The Devils’ Dance by Hamid Ismailov is an unusual novel which shines a light on Central Asia, a region that is still little known in the West. Even today, the Sovietised khanates Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, […]

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Donald Rayfield OBE Author & Translator Interview

April 3, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Donald Rayfield OBE is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers, and won the EBRD literature prize in 2019. […]

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Shadow of the Sun Taleb Alrefai Review

April 1, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai is a powerful work of fiction – beautifully translated by Nashwa Nasreldin – about the degrading lives endured by migrant Egyptian workers in Kuwait. It is a poignant […]