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The Connection Between The Sabres of Paradise and Dune? Spotlight

March 22, 2024 Ben F Comments Off

More and more articles about the connection between The Sabres of Paradise and Dune are appearing online. Direct film adaptations provide the biggest boost to the popularity of a book and its sales, so […]

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Stalking the Atomic City Markiyan Kamysh Review

March 6, 2023 Ben F Comments Off

Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh must be one of the strangest examples of tourist literature ever written. Its focus is about visits to ‘the Zone’: the radioactive Exclusion Zone around the devastated nuclear […]

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Venice Noir Isabella Panfido Review

February 14, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of Venice Noir: The Dark History of the Lagoons by Isabella Panfido, the Venetian writer, cultural journalist and radio presenter. A truly unique city built on a series of low mud banks between […]

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Along the Amber Route St Petersburg to Venice C. J. Schüler Review

March 2, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast reviews the travelogue memoir Along the Amber Route, St Petersburg to Venice by C. J. Schüler. “I am standing in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. In a glass case in front of me are […]

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Madeleine Euan Cameron Review

August 18, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast reviews Euan Cameron’s novel Madeleine. Madeleine is a perfectly-formed, psychologically acute first novel of love and war, shameful secrets and cowardly treachery. Euan Cameron’s prose sparkles with unsettling beauty and intelligence as he vividly […]