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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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Skies Alison Brackenbury Review

March 20, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

“Alison Brackenbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural world and its people like no other poet.” Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales Brackenbury’s latest (ninth) collection, Skies, reflects on childhood memory, Christmas in the […]

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Maurice Girodias & Olympia Press Explorations

March 11, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet 1

Maurice Girodias writes in his introduction to The Olympia Reader, Grove Press, 1965: “Since my earliest childhood the notion of individual freedom had been deeply rooted in me. Everything I saw or felt as I […]

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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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Aleppo Syria’s Great Merchant City Review

February 22, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

After four years of war, Aleppo, Syria’s great merchant city is in ruins, bombed by the Syrian air force, threatened by ISIL, its population decimated. Bread queues, electricity and water cuts, rationing and road-blocks are […]

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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 […]

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Silent Women Pioneers of Cinema (Eds) Bridges & Robson Review

February 7, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Silent Women: Pioneers of Cinema is the first book to give an overview of early women filmmakers in the USA, Europe and beyond. It has fantastic b/w photos which will appeal to all lovers of […]

Patrick Modiano: public novelist, private man Spotlight

September 20, 2015 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Patrick Modiano is a private man who remains aloof from the Parisian literati; a refreshing antithesis to the self-promoting writer blasting forth at every opportunity. “Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting […]