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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

August 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

This month’s top 5 books range across history, art and human survival; moving across continents, eras and genres. From minute-by-minute reckonings with a political crisis and a chilling first-hand account of the extremes of tyranny, […]

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Bridging the Gender Divide: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Spotlight

August 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

When a reader strolls into a bookshop, they enter a rich universe of literary imagination, yet historically, great swathes of stories from around the world have been missing from the shelves. While translated literature as […]

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

July 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

Reading around the world this month features new releases and updated classics, taking in folklore, international fantasy, dark comedy and biography. An interior designer stumbles into a medieval parallel world; David Bowie finds reinvention in […]

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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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

May 24, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Our monthly top 5 books roundup brings together idiosyncratic strong voices in translation, each tracking the art of survival across vastly different landscapes. Whether navigating the external terrors of a regime or the internal wilderness […]

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BookBlast Book Club, Hatchards, Summer 2026 News

May 1, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person at 6pm on the second Monday of each month at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss engaging, well-written fiction in translation from the past decade, offering thought-provoking reads that […]

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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

April 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Our top five books of the month take in Brooklyn, Iraq, the West Bank, the Congo, Argentina, and a dystopian otherworld. Together, these stories explore a central question: What happens to a person when their […]

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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

March 22, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Our Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month come from France and the Congo, Iran, Suriname and the Netherlands, India, Spain. Ève Guerra, Shahnrush Parsipur, Astrid Roemer, Vivek Shanbhag and Sara Torres […]