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How to Make a Woman & Our Life in the Forest Marie Darrieussecq BookBlast Review

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 […]

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation BookBlast Spotlight

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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Dark Heart Silvia Avallone Review

June 18, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

A novel about second chances, which blends romance and melodrama, Dark Heart is strangely compulsive reading. Silvia Avallone’s heroine is both a deeply sensitive soul and fiercely independent. A paradoxical figure, she provokes both irritation […]

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Summer at Mount Asama Masashi Matsuie Review

December 8, 2025 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Summer at Mount Asama by Masashi Matsuie is a novel that comes together through its attention to minutiae. Whether describing the sound of a Kogera bird or the angle of a chair leg, Masashi Matsuie’s […]

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Pretty Ugly, Kirsty Gunn Review

February 23, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

If you have not had the luck to read any fiction by Kirsty Gunn, then Pretty Ugly — her recently published collection of fourteen stories — is a great introduction to her work. Her distinctive […]

Read the World with MacLehose Press 5 notable writers bookblast

Read the World with MacLehose Press pt 1 Spotlight

August 1, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

MacLehose Press, the imprint of Quercus Books within the Hachette Group UK which champions literature in translation from around the world, offers to English-language readers different styles of writing and new perspectives that might otherwise […]

Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah A Mauritanian Tale Review

February 11, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast Review of Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah, Birds of Nabaa A Mauritanian Tale It’s not every day that we encounter novels by Mauritanian writers. The Sahel region usually gets into the news because of […]

Forgotten female photographers Gael Elton Mayo Spotlight BookBlast

Forgotten Female Photographers Gael Elton Mayo BookBlast® Estates

January 15, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The work of forgotten female photographers, gifted artists hiding in plain sight, is finally coming to light by way of exhibitions, books and more. The UK’s first Eve Arnold retrospective in ten years has just ended […]