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Lesley Blanch

Lesley Blanch (1904–2007) was a distinguished English traveller, historian and bestselling author. As Vogue features editor during WWII, she worked with Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton who became lifelong friends. A scholarly romantic, she effortlessly bridged Western and Eastern cultures. Blanch pioneered the group biography genre with her 1954 classic, The Wilder Shores of Love. Her memoirs, On The Wilder Shores of Love and Far To Go and Many To Love, are published by Virago.

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The Connection Between The Sabres of Paradise and Dune? Spotlight

March 22, 2024 Ben F Comments Off on The Connection Between The Sabres of Paradise and Dune? Spotlight
  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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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 on Croquis d’une vie de bohème Lesley Blanch News Archive
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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April 21, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Far To Go and Many To Love Lesley Blanch BookBlast® Archive
Far To Go and Many To Love: People and Places by Lesley Blanch is a selection of early journalism and travelling tales, edited by Georgia de Chamberet. The collection forms a captivating sequel to On […]
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Lesley Blanch A Bohemian Life, Waterstones London News Archive

December 26, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Lesley Blanch A Bohemian Life, Waterstones London News Archive
Lesley Blanch’s memoirs, On The Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life, published posthumously by Virago, will now be available in paperback. Join Lennie Goodings, Anne Sebba and others for an evening celebrating Trailblazing Women […]
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Sex in the City Nineteenth-century Paris & London Explorations

April 10, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Sex in the City Nineteenth-century Paris & London Explorations
Sex in the City for women of the demi-monde living in nineteenth-century Paris and London involved living a racy, scandalous and at times, dangerous, lifestyle. Nana and Prostitution In his planning notes for Nana, the […]
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Her Brilliant Career the 1950s Woman Rachel Cooke Review

January 25, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Her Brilliant Career the 1950s Woman Rachel Cooke Review
The stereotypical view of the 1950s woman is reflected in vintage postcards on sale at stalls in Portobello Market, featuring colourful ads for hoovers, OMO, ‘Empire’ baby pants, or Kenwood chef food processors alongside an […]
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Bridport Literary Festival was first held in 2005, having grown out of the internationally renowned Bridport Prize, founded in 1973, to raise funds for the fledgling Bridport Arts Centre. While the bigger book festivals like […]

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This week, BookBlast spotlights a selection of lit This week, BookBlast spotlights a selection of literature from India translated from Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and Assamese. These works capture the lived experience and heartbeat of the sub-continent, including numerous languages and regional dialects, ranging from the intimate domestic sphere to great epics. 
Our chosen books feature the 2022 International Booker Prize Winner, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, which is a powerful meditation on gender, age and family conventions recounted from myriad narrative perspectives, Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag, a tense and engrossing family drama set over the course of four days, One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, a contemporary Indian novel which scrutinises and subverts patriarchal expectations of marriage, the anthology A Fistful of Moonlight which collates contemporary writing from Assam through fourteen distinct stories, and finally Dog Star by Nabarun Bhattacharya, a chilling, dystopian allegory that reimagines a city’s relationship with its abandoned animals. 
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This week, BookBlast highlights modernist prose fr This week, BookBlast highlights modernist prose from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Literature from the German-speaking world navigates a tumultuous century of war, division and reunification. From the symbolism and culture of the Danube region to the tricky realities of life in Berlin, memory, identity and family legacies are explored.
Ranging from the international bestseller Lázár by Nelio Biedermann, a multigenerational family saga with a gothic twist, the confrontational complicity of wartime legacy in Ludwig's Room by Alois Hotschnig, to the indulgent humour of Christian Kracht’s tragicomic, International Booker Prize nominee Eurotrash, these novels scrutinise the search for identity in the shadow of history. 
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