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The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat Review

August 17, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
‘A series of photographs titled, The Aquatics, featured terrified faces emerging from wastewater and flooding, ID cards floating, women hoisting babies, lamps or suitcases overhead, the swollen face of a drowned man. The images weren’t […]
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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

July 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
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 […]
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Venice Requiem Khalid Lyamlahy Review

February 2, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off on Venice Requiem Khalid Lyamlahy Review
Khalid Lyamlahy’s Venice Requiem, out with HopeRoad’s imprint Small Axes in four days’ time,  impeccably translated by Ros Schwartz, is a novel based on the true story of Pateh Sabally, a twenty-two-year-old Gambian refugee. In […]
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Shadow of the Sun Taleb Alrefai Review

April 1, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Shadow of the Sun Taleb Alrefai Review
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai is a powerful work of fiction – beautifully translated by Nashwa Nasreldin – about the degrading lives endured by migrant Egyptian workers in Kuwait. It is a poignant […]
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Abdourahman Waberi Why Do You Dance When You Walk? Podcast

April 3, 2023 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Abdourahman Waberi Why Do You Dance When You Walk? Podcast
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 […]
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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Cassava Republic Press Interview

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BookBlast interview with Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Cassava Republic Press CEO Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, tell us a bit about your childhood and where you grew up. It was a very privileged upbringing in the sense of growing up […]
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In the Company of Men The Ebola Tales Véronique Tadjo Review

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In the Company of Men – The Ebola Tales by Véronqiue Tadjo is a beautifully written and translated, stark collection of concise narratives about the Ebola epidemic of 2014. A short but unforgettable novel, it […]
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A Long Way From Douala Max Lobe Review

May 1, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on A Long Way From Douala Max Lobe Review
A Long Way From Douala by Max Lobe is an entertaining, edgy read about serious subjects, including violence, terrorism, homosexuality and migration. Only yesterday, yet another story about small boats carrying migrants crossing the English […]

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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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