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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 […]

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Killing the Nerve Anna Pazos Review

January 9, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Killing the Nerve by Anna Pazos, superbly translated by Charlotte Coombe and Laura McGloughlin, is an autobiographical account of the early stages of a journalistic career (a genre the blurb calls ‘auto-journalism’) which focuses less […]

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European Literature Days Lucy Popescu Spotlight

December 23, 2024 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Lucy Popescu heads to Austria, and writes a special report for BookBlast® about European Literature Days which brings together writers from around the world to discuss current topics and stimulate debate. The festival has taken […]

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A Little Luck Claudia Piñeiro Review

September 28, 2023 Ben F Comments Off

A Little Luck by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle, reviewed by Sharif Gemie for BookBlast. A Little Luck is a skilfully structured novel by Claudia Piñeiro, the award-winning Argentinian crime and suspense writer, in […]

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Six Spanish Women Writers Review

January 10, 2023 Ben F Comments Off

Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers edited by Simon Deefholts & Kathryn Phillips-Miles reviewed by Sharif Gemie for BookBlast. Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers edited by Simon Deefholts & Kathryn Phillips-Miles is a welcome […]

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Exhumation: Madan Lal Dhingra, Leena Dhingra Review

August 5, 2022 Ben F Comments Off

Exhumation: Madan Lal Dhingra by Leena Dhingra reviewed by Sharif Gemie for BookBlast. The great niece of Madan Lal Dhingra, Leena Dhingra, unravels the life and death of an Indian revolutionary in Exhumation: The Life […]

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Be As Children Vladimir Sharov Review

January 4, 2022 Ben F Comments Off

Be As Children by Vladimir Sharov, reviewed by Sharif Gemie for BookBlast. A finalist for the Russian Booker and Big Book awards in 2008. “My own experience has taught me that being at the centre […]

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Turf Wars (2) Olivier Norek Review

November 8, 2021 Ben F Comments Off

Turf Wars by Olivier Norek, translated by Nick Caistor, reviewed by Sharif Gemie for BookBlast. Norek has an unusual C.V. Born in Toulouse in 1975, he worked for a humanitarian charity in in the 1990s, […]