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Wonderland Hanna Nordenhök BookBlast Review

Wonderland Hanna Nordenhök Review

September 2, 2026 Guest Contributor 0

Wonderland is the second novel by multi-award-winning Swedish writer and translator, Hanna Nordenhök, translated into English by Saskia Vogel. Her first, Caesaria, was published in 2024. Both novels are published in English by Héloïse Press. […]

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation BookBlast Spotlight

Bridging the Gender Divide: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Spotlight

August 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

When a reader strolls into a bookshop, they enter a rich universe of literary imagination, yet historically, great swathes of stories from around the world have been missing from the shelves. While translated literature as […]

The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaelle Nohant BookBlast Review

The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaëlle Nohant Review

July 29, 2026 Guest Contributor 0

I read the entirety of The Bureau of Unknown Fates with the assumption that the International Tracing Service (ITS) is as fictional as Gaëlle Nohant’s protagonist, Irène. With this lack of knowledge, I followed Irène, […]

Andrey Kurkov Awarded Orwell Foundation Special Prize bookblast spotlight

How Book Prizes Propel Authors Beyond Their Best Spotlight

June 28, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book prizes are the ultimate tastemakers of the literary world, providing welcome cash to authors; boosting sales for publishers and booksellers; helping readers choose high-quality fiction and nonfiction out of the thousands of books being […]

AND HOW HAVE YOU BEEN Maria Judite de Carvalho BookBlast Review

And How Have You Been? Maria Judite de Carvalho Review

June 19, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

If the title of this book by Maria Judite de Carvalho calls for an answer, it has to be, ‘As a woman, I’ve been frustrated, puzzled by the way life passes me by, with no-one, […]

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BookBlast Book Club, Hatchards, Summer 2026 News

May 1, 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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Paradiso Michele Masneri Review

April 30, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Continental, classy and chic, Paradiso by Michele Masneri is an entertaining read. Federico Desideri, a young, underpaid, disillusioned journalist from Milan, is sent to Rome by his editor-in-chief at Comic Sans — “a niche magazine […]

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 […]