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[ October 5, 2026 ] Night of a Thousand Hells Intan Paramaditha Review Adult Fiction
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[ September 14, 2026 ] Brothers Jackie Thomae Review Adult Fiction
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Oh, Freedom! Francesco d’Adamo Review

May 22, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Oh, Freedom!, winner of the Premio Asti D’Appello Junior, is an engrossing adventure story about a family of runaway slaves in the USA in 1860. “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, […]

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Dew Angels Melanie Schwapp Review

May 16, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Dew Angels is one of the best young adult novels I have read in a long time. It’s not just Melanie Schwapp’s strong, lucid writing; believable, engaging characters; compelling plotlines; and snappy pace, but also […]

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Betty Boo Claudia Piñeiro Review

May 8, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Claudia Piñeiro is Argentina’s leading crime and mystery writer who has created “A new literary genre: paranoid fiction. Everyone is a suspect; everyone feels pursued,” Ricardo Piglia. Beef, gauchos and the tango. Eva Perón, military […]

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A Bad End Fernando Royuela Review

April 29, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

In the novel A Bad End, by Fernando Royuela, an ageing midget looks back over his life and loves and losses to hilarious effect. Beautifully translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush, A Bad End […]

Ludwig’s Room Alois Hotschnig, Henrietta Foster Review

April 19, 2016 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Ludwig’s Room by Alois Hotschnig, translated by Tess Lewis, reviewed by Henrietta Foster for BookBlast. Alois Hotschnig sent me a copy of Ludwig’s Room about a year or so ago. Accompanying the book was a […]

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Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Explorations

March 11, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

“Lolita was rejected by four American publishers in 1954; published in Paris by The Olympia Press, September 1955; banned by the French government, December 1956; found “not objectionable” by U. S. Customs, February 1957; back […]

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Beneath the Surface Heidi Perks Review

March 4, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Heidi Perks excels at writing page-turners, unravelling the darker side of family secrets, mystery and intrigue. Abigail, a pretty, rebellious seventeen year old, gets home from school to find her family gone. Her toddler twin […]

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The Book of the Sultan’s Seal, Youssef Rakha Review

February 16, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Youssef Rakha explores a man’s “transformation during twenty-one days from a Europeanized intellectual to a semi-madman who believed he could perform magic deeds to resurrect the Islamic caliphate” is a very readable feast — taking […]