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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 […]

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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 […]

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Autobiography of Cotton Cristina Rivera Garza Review

May 5, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Nick Caistor, author of Mexico Inside Out, explores how Cristina Rivera Garza weaves a personal and political tapestry of Mexico in Autobiography of Cotton just published by And Other Stories. By the 1930s, the years […]

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In the Line of Fire Antony Thomas Review

March 25, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Antony Thomas was making documentary films at a time in film and TV when leading producers and executives were backed by their organizations, could stand by their principles and get films made. Three very different […]

Alastair Niven OBE LVO Lecturer & Arts Administrator Interview

March 1, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Alastair Niven, OBE LVO lecturer & arts administrator Alastair Niven, where were you born and brought up? Were you a happy child? I was born in a nursing home in Edinburgh. It […]

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In Glad or Sorry Hours A Memoir Alastair Niven Review

March 1, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of In Glad or Sorry Hours, a memoir by Alastair Niven OBE LVO Hon FRS, formerly Director General of The Africa Centre, Director of Literature at the Arts Council of Great Britain and […]

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Three Women Lucy Tertia George Review

April 13, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast reviews Three Women by Lucy Tertia George “Be the heroine of your life, not the victim,” Nora Ephron A strong woman is not defined by men, but is in full possession of herself and […]

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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 […]