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[ October 5, 2026 ] Night of a Thousand Hells Intan Paramaditha Review Adult Fiction
[ October 2, 2026 ] Pity Piety Mercy Antonio Galetta Review Adult Fiction
[ September 29, 2026 ] Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month Top 5 Monthly Picks
[ September 25, 2026 ] Adrift in the South Xiao Hai Review Adult Fiction
[ September 24, 2026 ] The Bookshop of Forbidden Books Marc Levy Review Adult Fiction
[ September 19, 2026 ] Eden at Dawn Karim Kattan Review Adult Fiction
[ September 14, 2026 ] Brothers Jackie Thomae Review Adult Fiction
[ September 10, 2026 ] How to Make a Woman & Our Life in the Forest Marie Darrieussecq Review Adult Fiction

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Liquid Reflections Liliane Lijn Review

August 31, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Liquid Reflections is a headlong dive into the coming-of-age of Liliane Lijn as an artist. The linear, raw narrative starts in Paris in 1958 where she lands from America. She is just eighteen and enrols […]

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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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French Cooking for One, Michèle Roberts Review

June 7, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Another book about French cooking, when so many are published? But this one is a little different since Michèle Roberts is the daughter of a French mother and an English father — it is essentially […]

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The Dyatlov Pass Henning Kuersten, The Palermo Stone Gary McPherson Review

October 13, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Here at Book Blast® we believe in promoting literary diversity and innovation by occasionally reviewing self-published books, especially since their authors often lack the visibility that traditionally published authors enjoy. The traditional publishing industry has, […]

Partita and A Winter in Zürau Gabriel Josipovici BookBlast Diary Review

Partita & A Winter in Zürau Gabriel Josipovici Review

September 19, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of Partita & A Winter in Zürau by Gabriel Josipovici (Carcanet) Partita & A Winter in Zürau are an unsettling, exploratory and seductive read which challenge the essential strangeness of existence. Gabriel Josipovici […]

The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate Donald Rayfield Review

A Seditious and Sinister Tribe, Donald Rayfield Review

July 29, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet 1

Donald Rayfield’s A Seditious and Sinister Tribe: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate, is a scholarly historical account of the origins of the Crimean Tatars which is loaded with intricate detail. He guides the reader […]

Before the Queen Falls Asleep Huzama Habayeb Review

May 7, 2024 Ben F Comments Off

Before the Queen Falls Asleep by Huzama Habayeb, translated from the Arabic by Kay Heikkinen, reviewed The BookBlast Diary by Sharif Gemie. Two people say goodbye at an airport. We’re not sure of their age, ethnicity […]

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Sad Tiger Neige Sinno Review

November 4, 2023 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Sad Tiger is a vivid account of incest and its consequences, beautifully written in purist prose. But this book is more than a confessional memoir in which the author lifts the lid on shocking facts […]