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Surface Olivier Norek Review

August 28, 2026 Guest Contributor 0

In Olivier Norek’s latest crime thriller, Surface, translated by Nick Caistor, the French author demonstrates the distinctive skill required to construct a top-notch police procedural. Genre writing demands a set pact with the reader that […]

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 […]

Twenty Minutes of Silence Helene Bessette BookBlast Review

Twenty Minutes of Silence Hélène Bessette Review

June 18, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Kate Briggs, translator of Twenty Minutes of Silence and of Hélène Bessette’s first novel Lili is Crying, wrote in an essay for The Yale Review in September 2025: How, why, and under what material circumstances […]

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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 […]

Far Rosa Ribas Review

January 4, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

“The novel Far by Rosa Ribas – called Lejos in Spanish – translated by Charlotte Coombe, is a dark, satirical and very Spanish love story with echoes of Claudia Piñeiro and JG Ballard,” Sam Jones, […]

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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 […]

Olivier Norek in conversation with Andrey Kurkov IFRU UK BookBlast News

Olivier Norek in conversation with Andrey Kurkov, French Institute UK, News & Events

August 28, 2025 Ben F Comments Off

We look forward to seeing you at the French Institute on 16 September, when Olivier Norek will be in conversation with Andrey Kurkov. We featured Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees at our first BookBlast book club […]

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Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly, Spring-Summer 2025 News

February 16, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Following the success of the first year of the BookBlast® Translation Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly, we are thrilled to announce the titles up for discussion from March to June. We will meet as usual […]