Book Reviews Archives - Page 2 of 29

Ticker

[ October 11, 2026 ] Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 Pt 2 News & Events Curated Reading Lists
[ October 7, 2026 ] Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 Pt 1 News & Events Curated Reading Lists
[ 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

Surface Olivier Norek Review

August 28, 2026 Guest Contributor 0

In Olivier Norek’s latest crime thriller, Surface, translated by Nick Caistor, the French author demonstrates the distinctive skill required to construct a top-notch police procedural. Genre writing demands a set pact with the reader that […]

Red River Somnath Batabyal BookBlast Review

Red River Somnath Batabyal Review

August 25, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

A coming-of-age saga, Red River centres around the fate of three boys whose childhood friendship is strained by political upheaval and violence. Set against the turbulent shifts in power in Assam in the late twentieth […]

The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat BookBlast Review

The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat Review

August 17, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

‘A series of photographs titled, The Aquatics, featured terrified faces emerging from wastewater and flooding, ID cards floating, women hoisting babies, lamps or suitcases overhead, the swollen face of a drowned man. The images weren’t […]

The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaelle Nohant BookBlast Review

The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaëlle Nohant Review

July 29, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

I read the entirety of The Bureau of Unknown Fates with the assumption that the International Tracing Service (ITS) is as fictional as Gaëlle Nohant’s protagonist, Irène. With this lack of knowledge, I followed Irène, […]

My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova BookBlast Review

My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova Review

July 12, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

My Dreadful Body is an award-winning debut autofictional novella by Egana Djabbarova. Originally published in Russian and translated into English by Lisa C. Hayden, it is an unsettling, disturbing, strangely absorbing read. I was unsure […]

Ever Land by Amy Abdelnoor bookblast review

Ever Land by Amy Abdelnoor Review

July 9, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

In her striking debut novel Ever Land, Amy Abdelnoor steps into the polarized landscape of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, exploring its fractures through a supernatural interweaving of the lives of two teenage girls separated by three […]

Ben Faccini Other People's Children BookBlast review

Other People’s Children Ben Faccini Review

July 8, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Ben Faccini has written an unusual and clever novel which reflects the shifting reality of family life today and how unresolved emotional wounds of the past impact the present. As stepfamilies have increasingly become a […]

AND HOW HAVE YOU BEEN Maria Judite de Carvalho BookBlast Review

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, […]