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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 […]

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 […]

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Paradiso Michele Masneri Review

April 30, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Continental, classy and chic, Paradiso by Michele Masneri is an entertaining read. Federico Desideri, a young, underpaid, disillusioned journalist from Milan, is sent to Rome by his editor-in-chief at Comic Sans — “a niche magazine […]

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Zombie Proust Jérôme Prieur Review

December 16, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Marcel Proust may have died over a century ago, but his legacy endures. Readers are still captivated by the way À la recherche du Temps Perdu redefined modern literature; by how Proust shows the drama […]

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Liquid Reflections Liliane Lijn Review

August 31, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Liquid Reflections is a headlong dive into the coming-of-age of Liliane Lijn as an artist. The linear, raw narrative starts in Paris in 1958 where she lands from America. She is just eighteen and enrols […]

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Of Lead and Gold François Jonquet 4Translation

January 26, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Of Lead and Gold, De Plomb et d’Or by François Jonquet found 4Translation Over the past twenty years, I have kept a keen eye on the work of François Jonquet and his novelistic biographies of […]

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The Story of Langford Grove School & Among the Bohemians Review

May 28, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of The Story of Langford Grove School 1923-62, an illuminating dive into progressive education through the life of avant-garde educator Elizabeth Curtis, and Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson about the unconventional lives […]