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My Women Yuliia Iliukha Review

April 6, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

My Women by Yuliia Iliukha, translated by Hanna Leliv, is a powerful and critically acclaimed collection of short fiction that shines a spotlight on the experiences of women during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The […]

The Fire Cecilia Sala Review

March 19, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Italian journalist, Cecilia Sala, belongs to the breed of courageous reporters – many of them women – who travel to some of the most dangerous countries in the world to see for themselves exactly what […]

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 […]

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City Like Water Dorothy Tse Review

March 9, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

City Like Water by Dorothy Tse out from Fitzcarraldo and translated by Natascha Bruce, is her third book to be translated into English, following the surreal short story collection Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky […]

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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

February 27, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

5 books, 5 countries: Russia, Spain, Algeria, Norway and Iraq (via the UK) set the scene. What links these works is a shared desire for clarity. Stepanova dismantles memory; García Llovet stalks the edges of […]

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Charlie Coombe & Tina Kover Translator Interview

February 13, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

In this translator interview for BookBlast Diary, Charlie Coombe and Tina Kover talk language, literature, inspiration, success and more. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Charlie Coombe (CC): I have been a translator for […]

BookBlast Book Club, Hatchards, Spring 2026 News

January 15, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person at 6pm on the second Monday of each month at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss engaging, well-written fiction in translation from the past decade, offering thought-provoking reads that […]

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Three Years on Fire Andrey Kurkov Review

November 19, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Andrey Kurkov is widely regarded as the most internationally visible Ukrainian writer of his generation, bridging Ukrainian, Russian-language and Western literary worlds without losing cultural specificity. He challenges Western assumptions and humanises a country that […]