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Dreamtime Venetia Welby Review

September 7, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of Dreamtime, Venetia Welby’s futuristic second novel which has an altogether different atmosphere and resonance to her first, Mother of Darkness, also set in London’s Soho. Both novels, however, feature central characters in […]

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Monkey King Journey to the West Wu Cheng’en Review

March 23, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en, in a new translation by Julia Lovell, is an acknowledged classic not only for children but adults too. The new Penguin Classics clothbound hardback edition is […]

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Translating China by Nicky Harman Podcast

February 25, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Nicky Harman, translator, discusses translating China with BookBlast Podcast host Georgia de Chamberet, on the launch of online magazine Paper Republic’s roundup of new books in English translation. This year’s roll call features thirty-three novels, […]

Andrew Crumey Author Podcast

November 24, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast® Podcast with Andrew Crumey, author Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Allan Massie, Val McDermid, Andrew O’Hagan, Ian Rankin, Ali Smith, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner . . . the list of fine Scottish writers […]

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Seven Terrors Selvedin Avdić Review

April 3, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of Seven Terrors, Selvedin Avdić tr. Coral Petkovich Foreword by Nick Lezard. Longlisted for the Dublin Impac Awards 2014, Shortlisted for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards 2013 (Istros Books) “I noticed […]

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As a God Might Be Neil Griffiths Review

October 10, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast review of As a God Might Be, an ambitious novel by Neil Griffiths. “What was the grand plan? Build a clifftop church and then hurry away back to London when it was finished? […]

Witchbroom Lawrence Scott Review

May 15, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast reviews Witchbroom by Lawrence Scott. “Here at the window of the turret room, Lavren, at the sill of the Demerara window, Marie Elena behind him on her deathbed telling the last tales before […]