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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? […]

Protest! Stories of Resistance (ed.) Ra Page Review

July 2, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Protest! Stories of Resistance is a superb anthology edited by Ra Page, CEO and Founder of Comma Press. He has edited over twenty anthologies. “Our own, personal experience of the event – as it unfolded […]

Polly Pattullo Papillote Press Interview

May 15, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Polly Pattullo, Papillote Press CEO based in Dominica. The list covers fiction and non-fiction, including children’s books, reflecting the island’s rich culture and literary heritage. Are (were) your parents great readers? Polly […]

The Past Alan Pauls BookTrust BookBlast® Archive

February 26, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast review of The Past by Alan Pauls, an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter. Georgia de Chamberet periodically reviewed translations by up-and-coming writers for BookTrust in 2008. The Past, first published in the […]

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Ricarda Huch The Last Summer Interview

February 18, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

The Last Summer by Ricarda Huch, superbly translated by Jamie Bulloch, is a welcome rediscovered classic thanks to Peirene Press. “We aged a hundred years, and this Happened in a single hour: The short summer […]

Russia – friend or frenemy? Literature in Focus Explorations

February 6, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet 2

Russia – friend or frenemy? As menace and dehumanizing political rhetoric enter the mainstream, literature can offer a contextualising and humanistic perspective. War in Ukraine and Russia’s direct military involvement in the Syrian Civil War […]