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[ 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

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Celebrating Translation at Hatchards, Piccadilly, season 2 News Archive

August 18, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Following the success of the first season of the BookBlast® Translation Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly, we are thrilled to announce the titles up for discussion this coming Autumn. We will meet as usual on […]

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Read the World with MacLehose Press pt 1 Spotlight

August 1, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

MacLehose Press, the imprint of Quercus Books within the Hachette Group UK which champions literature in translation from around the world, offers to English-language readers different styles of writing and new perspectives that might otherwise […]

Naguib Mahfouz Annie Ernaux BookBlast Hatchards Translation Book Club News

Andrey Kurkov, Naguib Mahfouz, Annie Ernaux BookBlast® Book Club News

May 21, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The just-launched BookBlast® Hatchards Translation Book Club meets on the second Monday of each month to discuss works of fiction in translation from around the world published in the last ten years. The titles chosen […]

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The Devils’ Dance Hamid Ismailov Review

April 11, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The Devils’ Dance by Hamid Ismailov is an unusual novel which shines a light on Central Asia, a region that is still little known in the West. Even today, the Sovietised khanates Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, […]

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Celebrating Translation at Hatchards, Piccadilly News & Events

March 12, 2024 Ben F Comments Off

Celebrating Translation at Hatchards, Piccadilly Join host Georgia de Chamberet and guests, Donald Rayfield OBE, translator from the Russian, Georgian and Uzbek – his translation of The Devils’ Dance by Hamid Ismailov won the EBRD […]

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Andrey Kurkov, Tony Fairweather, The Children’s Bookshow (pt 2) Spotlight

December 27, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Following up on 2022 in Review, Spotlight (pt 1), lack of time has meant that mastering the TBR pile has been a frustrating challenge this year. Many fantastic books have been published in 2022 by […]

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Annie Ernaux, Olivier Guez, Empire Windrush, Lesley Blanch (pt 1) Spotlight

December 15, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast 2022 in Review Spotlight, what an odd post-pandemic year this has been, deranged in so many ways, over and beyond the realities of Brexit hitting home, and the depressing normalization of exploitation by the […]

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Ethel Mannin, Colin MacInnes & others Explorations

March 4, 2022 Ben F Comments Off

A BookBlast Explorations feature by Sharif Gemie, shining a spotlight on forgotten woman writer, Ethel Mannin, her contemporaries and her world. How many of you have heard of Ethel Mannin (1900-84), a contemporary of Colin […]