June 2026 - BookBlast® Official

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

June 28, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

This month’s Top 5 Books from around the world takes in five distinct voices embracing sun-baked Mediterranean islands, surreal, tech-fused futures and witchy woods among other places, as they go behind the masks we wear […]

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How Book Prizes Propel Authors Beyond Their Best Spotlight

June 28, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book prizes are the ultimate tastemakers of the literary world, providing welcome cash to authors; boosting sales for publishers and booksellers; helping readers choose high-quality fiction and nonfiction out of the thousands of books being […]

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And How Have You Been? Maria Judite de Carvalho Review

June 19, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

If the title of this book by Maria Judite de Carvalho calls for an answer, it has to be, ‘As a woman, I’ve been frustrated, puzzled by the way life passes me by, with no-one, […]

Twenty Minutes of Silence Helene Bessette BookBlast Review

Twenty Minutes of Silence Hélène Bessette Review

June 18, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Kate Briggs, translator of Twenty Minutes of Silence and of Hélène Bessette’s first novel Lili is Crying, wrote in an essay for The Yale Review in September 2025: How, why, and under what material circumstances […]

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Dark Heart Silvia Avallone Review

June 18, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

A novel about second chances, which blends romance and melodrama, Dark Heart is strangely compulsive reading. Silvia Avallone’s heroine is both a deeply sensitive soul and fiercely independent. A paradoxical figure, she provokes both irritation […]

The White Desert Luis López Carrasco BookBlast Review

The White Desert Luis López Carrasco Review

June 16, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The White Desert is an unusual debut novel by Luis López Carrasco, expertly translated by Rosalind Harvey. Odd, unsettling and dystopian, the novel starts with nine people fleeing bombs in a hot air balloon which […]

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Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals Valentin Deudon Review

June 9, 2026 Ben F Comments Off

Valentin Deudon is a French poet, author and football fan, which is what makes Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals different to the usual journalistic endeavour. Instead of being yet another biography, to add to those by […]

Exit 8 Genki Kawamura Review

June 1, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Exit 8 by Genki Kawamura, translated by Sameeha Anwar, is a disturbing, short Japanese psychological mystery based on a hugely successful game that has sold three million copies, created by Kotake Create. The global craze […]