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[ 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

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 BookBlast News

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 Pt 2 News & Events

October 11, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

Four more books from our three-part tour of this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist, the most multilingual in the prize’s history. In Part One we travelled from Gaza to Stockholm; from Budapest […]

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 Pt 1 News & Events

October 7, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

Discover the first four titles on this year’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist. 167 submissions. 37 languages. 13 books that made it through. Here’s the first instalment of our three-part longlist tour. Prizes […]

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

September 29, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

Our top 5 books of the month kicking off the Autumn take in fiction, foodie explorations, memoir and literary experimentation. From Emmanuel Carrère’s unsettling excavation of history and memory in Kolkhoz, to Fuchsia Dunlop’s richly […]

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 Comments Off

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 […]