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My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova BookBlast Review

My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova Review

July 12, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

My Dreadful Body is an award-winning debut autofictional novella by Egana Djabbarova. Originally published in Russian and translated into English by Lisa C. Hayden, it is an unsettling, disturbing, strangely absorbing read. I was unsure […]

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 […]

The White Desert Luis López Carrasco BookBlast Review

The White Desert Luis López Carrasco Review

June 16, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The White Desert is an unusual debut novel by Luis López Carrasco, expertly translated by Rosalind Harvey. Odd, unsettling and dystopian, the novel starts with nine people fleeing bombs in a hot air balloon which […]

Gemma Jackson Dispatches from the Intern's Desk BookBlast

Gemma Jackson Dispatches from the Intern’s Desk Spotlight

May 9, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

My dispatch from the intern’s desk begins with a struggle for a foothold in a competitive industry, but it ends on a happy note: do not lose hope! Truth be told, I emerged from my […]

three years on fire andrey kurkov bookblast diry review

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 […]