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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

August 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

This month’s top 5 books range across history, art and human survival; moving across continents, eras and genres. From minute-by-minute reckonings with a political crisis and a chilling first-hand account of the extremes of tyranny, […]

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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, […]

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

July 26, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

Reading around the world this month features new releases and updated classics, taking in folklore, international fantasy, dark comedy and biography. An interior designer stumbles into a medieval parallel world; David Bowie finds reinvention in […]

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Stalin’s Purges & Forgotten Women’s Histories Explorations

March 27, 2025 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Stalin’s Purges & Forgotten Women’s Histories by Ekaterina Drozdovica is an exclusive Spotlight feature celebrating Women’s History Month. Working at BookBlast® as social media coordinator, a key feature of my role is supporting the promotion […]

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A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare Book Club News

November 25, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson, was longlisted for the 2024 Man Booker International Prize. “History is usually reticent regarding what happens between poets and tyrants. The truth gives way to […]

The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate Donald Rayfield Review

A Seditious and Sinister Tribe, Donald Rayfield Review

July 29, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet 1

Donald Rayfield’s A Seditious and Sinister Tribe: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate, is a scholarly historical account of the origins of the Crimean Tatars which is loaded with intricate detail. He guides the reader […]

Honeymoon in Hell Gael Elton Mayo Media Release

May 22, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Honeymoon in Hell is a remarkable rediscovered World War Two novel originally published by Doubleday in 1944 September 1939. Star-crossed newly-weds, Anthea and Igor, have enjoyed a lazy summer on the French Riviera with their […]

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Donald Rayfield OBE Author & Translator Interview

April 3, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Donald Rayfield OBE is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers, and won the EBRD literature prize in 2019. […]