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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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Ethel Mannin, Colin MacInnes & others Explorations

March 4, 2022 Ben F Comments Off

A BookBlast Explorations feature by Sharif Gemie, shining a spotlight on forgotten woman writer, Ethel Mannin, her contemporaries and her world. How many of you have heard of Ethel Mannin (1900-84), a contemporary of Colin […]

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Negative Capability A Diary of Surviving Michèle Roberts Review

May 21, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving gives the reader something really special. Michèle Roberts’ intimate, candid writing is underpinned by a dry humour, wry observations, and a poignant strain of melancholy perfect for our time. […]

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Lesley Blanch & the 1950s Woman Waterstones London News Archive

June 19, 2017 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Georgia de Chamberet & Elisa Segrave celebrate the 1950s Woman Wednesday 5th July, 6.30 pm Waterstones, Gower Street, London W1 @gowerst_books @quartetbooks Join us for a glass of wine to toast the publication of Far […]

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Magnum Photographic Group Gael Elton Mayo Apollo Magazine BookBlast® Estates

May 12, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) was writer-researcher for the Magnum Photographic Group, Paris, 1950-56, working with Robert Capa, David Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She wrote Generation X (England) with Cartier-Bresson, later changed to Youth of the […]

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A History of the Authors Club of London C. J. Schüler Review

April 24, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast review of Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies: A History of the Authors’ Club of London 1891-2016. “The history of the Authors’ Club is studded with famous names: Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Rider Haggard, […]

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Far To Go and Many To Love Lesley Blanch BookBlast® Archive

April 21, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

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 […]