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July 15, 2023 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on The Children’s Bookshow (pt 3) Top 5 Reads BookBlast Recommends
BookBlast Presents Top 5 Reads The Children’s Bookshow (pt 3) Although The Children’s Bookshow hits the road in the Autumn, tickets to many shows have already sold out and the remainder are selling fast. All […]
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BookBlast Presents Top 5 Reads, The Children’s Bookshow (pt 2) For over twenty years, The Children’s Bookshow has tirelessly promoted, up and down the country, not only a love of reading, but also emerging and […]
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BookBlast Presents Top 5 Reads The Children’s Bookshow (pt 1)  The Childrens Bookshow is back! The writers and illustrators of children’s literature touring the regions of England this year are offering a fantastic variety of […]
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December 27, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Andrey Kurkov, Tony Fairweather, The Children’s Bookshow (pt 2) Spotlight
Following up on 2022 in Review, Spotlight (pt 1), lack of time has meant that mastering the TBR pile has been a frustrating challenge this year. Many fantastic books have been published in 2022 by […]
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December 22, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds XV BookBlast Recommends
BookBlast’s Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds to end the year offers a smorgasbord of brain food, bringing you a medley of writing and ideas by way of France, Germany, Mexico, Romania and true-grit Britain. […]
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December 8, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on The 10 Worst of Everything Sam Jordison Review
BookBlast reviews Sam Jordison’s The 10 Worst of Everything: The Big Book of Bad, a compelling source of alternative general knowledge. We live in an increasingly polarised mad and maddening world seemingly going from bad […]
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March 31, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Beauty Victims at Le Palace 3:AM Magazine BookBlast® Archive
An early article, Beauty Victims at Le Palace, by Georgia de Chamberet especially written for 3:AM Magazine first published in 2005. During a recent trip to Paris, I mentioned to various French publishers that in the UK, […]

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Looking for an unputdownable crime read? Look no f Looking for an unputdownable crime read? Look no further! 
Surface by Olivier Norek translated by Nick Caistor is the ultimate police procedural due out with @openborderspress 
In her review for BookBlast Diary, Emily Unwin breaks down why this thriller delivers on every front:
- Deep suspense & clever twists
- High-stakes crimes & misdemeanours 
- A lead detective you’ll root for
As @emily.unwin puts it, genre writing requires a pact with the reader and @NorekOlivier delivers a perfectly packaged, gripping story from start to finish. One for your TBR pile that's for sure! 
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Women in Translation Month may be ending, but grea Women in Translation Month may be ending, but great literature is timeless. Whose world will you step into next?
We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Maureen Freely and her team @elifgulez.writer spotlighting @warwickprizewomenintranslation The annual prize celebrates the finest full-length book written by a woman translated into English, published in the UK or Ireland. All literary genres are welcomed: novels, poetry, creative non-fiction, graphic novels, children’s or YA fiction, short story collections, novellas and plays.
Established in 2017, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation champions and propels international women’s voices from the periphery into mainstream cultural conversations.
‘We’ve come a long way with the championing of world literature over the past decade... In the same period, however, we’ve noticed that it is markedly more difficult for women to make it into English translation. This prize offers us an opportunity to welcome in the voices and perspectives we’ve missed thus far,’ Maureen Freely, BookBlast Diary - read the full feature on our website. 
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