May 2026 - BookBlast® Official

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The Roof Beneath Their Feet Geetanjali Shree Review

May 25, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The Roof Beneath Their Feet by Geetanjali Shree, who won the International Booker in 2022 with Tomb of Sand, is a lyrical meditation on memory, grief and unconventional female love. Beautifully translated into English by […]

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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

May 24, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Our monthly top 5 books roundup brings together idiosyncratic strong voices in translation, each tracking the art of survival across vastly different landscapes. Whether navigating the external terrors of a regime or the internal wilderness […]

Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life Samar Yazbek Review

May 20, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

In early 2024, Samar Yazbek found herself in Doha, where more than 2,500 Palestinian survivors of the genocide in Gaza were living alongside their families and receiving desperately needed medical care. Yazbek is a Syrian […]

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Night Train Xu Zechen Review

May 12, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Night Train by Xu Zechen is a campus novel with a difference: it’s set in small town China in the present day. Chen Munian is the hapless twenty-six year-old student at the centre of this […]

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Gemma Jackson Dispatches from the Intern’s Desk Spotlight

May 9, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

My dispatch from the intern’s desk begins with a struggle for a foothold in a competitive industry, but it ends on a happy note: do not lose hope! Truth be told, I emerged from my […]

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Autobiography of Cotton Cristina Rivera Garza Review

May 5, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Nick Caistor, author of Mexico Inside Out, explores how Cristina Rivera Garza weaves a personal and political tapestry of Mexico in Autobiography of Cotton just published by And Other Stories. By the 1930s, the years […]

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BookBlast Book Club, Hatchards, Summer 2026 News

May 1, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 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 thought-provoking reads that […]