July 2025 - BookBlast® Official

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My Sister’s Red Shirt by Tie Ning Review

July 25, 2025 Ben F Comments Off

My Sister’s Red Shirt by Tie Ning, beautifully translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan, is an unusual bestselling semi-autobiographical novella written through the lens of a young woman reflecting on a family in crisis […]

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BookBlast Book Club, Hatchards Piccadilly, Autumn 2025 News

July 22, 2025 Ben F Comments Off

The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person at 6pm on the second Monday of each month at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss engaging, well-written fiction in translation from the past decade, offering enjoyable reads and […]

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Daybreak in Gaza & From the River to the Sea Two Book Review

July 22, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller, with Juliette Touma and Jayyab Abusafia (Saqi Books), and From the River to the Sea and Other Poems by Samer Abu Hawwash (Banipal Books) are a […]

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Small Boat Vincent Delecroix Review

July 9, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix is a stark, tragic novel which confronts the moral bankruptcy and paralysis of Western humanism and liberalism. Set against the backdrop of desperate migrants attempting to cross the English Channel […]