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The Connection Between The Sabres of Paradise and Dune? Spotlight

March 22, 2024 Ben F Comments Off

More and more articles about the connection between The Sabres of Paradise and Dune are appearing online. Direct film adaptations provide the biggest boost to the popularity of a book and its sales, so […]

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Forgotten Female Photographers Gael Elton Mayo BookBlast® Estates

January 15, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The work of forgotten female photographers, gifted artists hiding in plain sight, is finally coming to light by way of exhibitions, books and more. The UK’s first Eve Arnold retrospective in ten years has just ended […]

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Journey into the Mind’s Eye Lesley Blanch, NYRB Classics News Archive

June 16, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast Estates News: Journey into the Mind’s Eye by Lesley Blanch reissued by New York Review of Books Classics Lesley Blanch: “My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will […]

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Croquis d’une vie de bohème Lesley Blanch News Archive

April 14, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

CROQUIS D’UNE VIE DE BOHÈME Lesley Blanch, La Table Ronde 19-04-2018 Préfacé et présenté par Georgia de Chamberet Traduit de l’anglais par Lucien d’Azay Écrivain et voyageuse, fascinée par l’Orient, Lesley Blanch est restée célèbre […]

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Sparring with Hemingway Robert Ruark 1954-55 BookBlast® Estates

February 24, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

An article about sparring with Hemingway and the stamina required to be a writer fell out of Gael Elton Mayo’s copy of Robert Ruark’s Something of Value while rearranging the overfilled bookshelves in the hallway […]

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Gael Elton Mayo Letter from Brittany BookBlast® Estates

February 4, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer and artist, first wrote a column while living in Spain in the 1950s for The Spanish-American Courier. This piece came out in April 1954. In the northwest of Spain, […]

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Elton Mayo The Problem of Working Together 1932 BookBlast® Estates

November 21, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

My grandfather, George Elton Mayo (1880-1949), the psychologist, organizational theorist and acknowledged founder of the Human Relations Movement, had innovative ideas and theories based on a lifetime of research which he often expressed in speeches […]

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Jean Anouilh Dramatist & Screenwriter 1956 Interview BookBlast® Estates

November 12, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

From the archive: articles by Gael Elton Mayo. Jean Anouilh (1910-87) dramatist & screenwriter was interviewed by her in 1956 for Queen Magazine. Best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ classical […]