BookBlast® Podcast Archives - BookBlast® Official

Ticker

bookblast diary book club ismail kadare podcast

A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare BookBlast® Book Club Podcast

January 6, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

A Dictator Calls is based around Stalin’s alleged three-minute telephone call to Boris Pasternak in 1934. Who better than Kadare to write about it, given how he navigated the oppressive environment of communist Albania under […]

Clara Reads Proust, Translation Book Club, Hatchards Piccadilly

Clara Reads Proust Stéphane Carlier Book Club Podcast

January 3, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Set in part in a hairdresser’s salon in regional France, Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier is an engaging and unusual novel about how reading Proust changes a young woman’s life for the better. Some […]

warsaw tales antonia lloyd-jones bookblast book club

Warsaw Tales, Clara Reads Proust Podcast Roundup

November 3, 2024 Ben F Comments Off

Our special guest at the October translation book club discussion was Antonia Lloyd-Jones, co-editor and translator of Warsaw Tales (OUP 2024). She is best-known for translating Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. Hear highlights of Antonia’s presentation […]

sian williams founder childrens bookshow bookblast podcast bbd

Sian Williams, founder The Children’s Bookshow Podcast

July 17, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The Children’s Bookshow is back! BookBlast® is delighted to interview its visionary founder, Sian Williams, to discover how this much loved and hugely popular national tour of writers and illustrators of children’s literature first began […]

bookblast-podcast-interview-abdourahman-waberi-

Abdourahman Waberi Why Do You Dance When You Walk? Podcast

April 3, 2023 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Why Do You Dance When You Walk? is the most autobiographical work to date by Abdourahman Waberi. Poet, novelist and essayist, his earlier stories and novels bring to life the story of his homeland, the […]

the last one fatima daas bookblast review

Fatima Daas The Last One (French & English) Podcast

April 7, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

An autobiographical first novel, The Last One tells the story of Fatima Daas and her family. The confusing polarities between different worlds and cultures that are portrayed sparked an intense Media debate in France. Although […]

bookblast podcast natasha lehrer discusses consent vanessa springora

Natasha Lehrer on Consent Vanessa Springora Podcast

April 9, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Hear the BookBlast® Podcast with award-winning translator, Natasha Lehrer, discussing Consent; the “existential” idealism of “liberty”, the trouble with Feminism in France and literary name-and-shame public revelations leading to the downfall of powerful sexual abusers. […]

bookblast podcast bridging the divide series season 2

Bridging the Divide series Season 2 BookBlast Podcast

November 15, 2020 Ben F Comments Off

Tune in to the final eight episodes of the BookBlast Podcast series, Bridging the Divide: Translation and the Art of Empathy for some literary finds. Podcast interview Lars Mytting and his translator Deborah Dawkin discuss […]