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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 […]

The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaelle Nohant BookBlast Review

The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaëlle Nohant Review

July 29, 2026 Guest Contributor 0

I read the entirety of The Bureau of Unknown Fates with the assumption that the International Tracing Service (ITS) is as fictional as Gaëlle Nohant’s protagonist, Irène. With this lack of knowledge, I followed Irène, […]

My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova BookBlast Review

My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova Review

July 12, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

My Dreadful Body is an award-winning debut autofictional novella by Egana Djabbarova. Originally published in Russian and translated into English by Lisa C. Hayden, it is an unsettling, disturbing, strangely absorbing read. I was unsure […]

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Other People’s Children Ben Faccini Review

July 8, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

Ben Faccini has written an unusual and clever novel which reflects the shifting reality of family life today and how unresolved emotional wounds of the past impact the present. As stepfamilies have increasingly become a […]

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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 […]

Angst Hélène Cixous Review

March 17, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Hélène Cixous is best known in the Anglophone world for her 1976 essay The Laugh of the Medusa (Le Rire de la Méduse) — published in English one year later — in which she laid […]