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The Simple Art of Killing a Woman Patrícia Melo Review

October 24, 2025 Guest Contributor Comments Off

The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo, tr. Sophie Lewis is published by Indigo Press. Righteous indignation rarely produces good novels. The writer is too busy shouting from a soap-box to construct […]

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London Book Fair 2025 Spotlight

March 14, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The mood at this year’s London Book Fair (LBF) was buoyant and hopeful about the evolving publishing landscape, despite the ongoing squabble between the tech sector and creative industries over copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). […]

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The Devils’ Dance Hamid Ismailov Review

April 11, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The Devils’ Dance by Hamid Ismailov is an unusual novel which shines a light on Central Asia, a region that is still little known in the West. Even today, the Sovietised khanates Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, […]

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The London Book Fair 2024 News Archive

March 6, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The annual London Book Fair kicks off next week with book publishing professionals from all around the world crowding into Olympia to sell and buy, display and demonstrate, give seminars sharing knowledge and experience, or […]

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Bridging the Divide series Season 2 BookBlast Podcast

November 15, 2020 Ben F Comments Off

Tune in to the final eight episodes of the BookBlast Podcast series, Bridging the Divide: Translation and the Art of Empathy for some literary finds. Podcast interview Lars Mytting and his translator Deborah Dawkin discuss […]

Bridging the Divide series Season 1 BookBlast Podcast

August 31, 2020 Ben F Comments Off

The BookBlast® Podcast series Bridging the Divide: Translation and the Art of Empathy might just fit the bill if you are looking for something a little different. When reading, do you “hear” the book as […]

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Bridging the Divide Full Listing Podcast Series

June 17, 2020 Ben F Comments Off

Bridging the Divide: Translation & the Art of Empathy The ground-breaking weekly BookBlast® podcast series kicks off on Thursday 30 July, 5 pm: championing independent publishers committed to publishing writing in translation; their authors and […]

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Wild Woman Marina Šur Puhlovski & Under Pressure Faruk Šehić Review

August 4, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

What can the novels Wild Woman by Marina Šur Puhlovski and Under Pressure by Faruk Šehić tell us about the breakup of Yugoslavia which caused such a tectonic shift in Balkan identity? Each to their […]