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Brothers Jackie Thomae Review

September 14, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
Jackie Thomae’s award-winning novel, Brothers, is a versatile and engaging examination of how two half-brothers raised in separate households navigate life completely isolated from each other. Following a broad, classic, realist structure, this engrossing novel […]
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How to Make a Woman & Our Life in the Forest Marie Darrieussecq Review

September 10, 2026 Guest Contributor 0
Marie Darrieussecq exploded onto the literary scene in 1996 with her debut novel Pig Tales (Truismes). An award-winning literary multi-hyphenate, Darrieussecq’s work spans genres, style and form. Each of her books holds the potential of […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Red River Somnath Batabyal Review

August 25, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
A coming-of-age saga, Red River centres around the fate of three boys whose childhood friendship is strained by political upheaval and violence. Set against the turbulent shifts in power in Assam in the late twentieth […]
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Maureen Freely Translator, Novelist & Advocate Interview

August 20, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
BookBlast interview with Maureen Freely, the American novelist, journalist, professor and co-founder of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Georgia de Chamberet (GDC): Your early life bridged distinct worlds, moving from New Jersey to […]
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The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat Review

August 17, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0
‘A series of photographs titled, The Aquatics, featured terrified faces emerging from wastewater and flooding, ID cards floating, women hoisting babies, lamps or suitcases overhead, the swollen face of a drowned man. The images weren’t […]
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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, […]

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Two deliciously dark novels by Marie Darrieussecq Two deliciously dark novels by Marie Darrieussecq reviewed for BookBlast by @emily.unwin 
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This week, BookBlast brings you a curated collecti This week, BookBlast brings you a curated collection of some of the best contemporary writing from Albania, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. These translations capture the wit, grit and complex soul of the Balkan peninsula past and present. 
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