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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, […]

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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Lovers of Franz K Burhan Sönmez Review

June 24, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Lovers of Franz K, translated from the Kurdish by Sami Hêzil, is an unusual, labyrinthine tale. An exploration of truth, deception and the malleability of history, it questions how official and personal narratives are warped […]

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The Hand that Feeds You Mercedes Rosende Review

February 3, 2024 Ben F 2

The Hand that Feeds You is the eighth exhilarating, dark thriller by Mercedes Rosende, and the second of her trilogy featuring a forceful and impressive female detective. Not all thrillers have to feature gory murders […]

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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, […]

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Rosy & John & The Paris Crime Files Pierre Lemaitre Review

July 8, 2021 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of Rosy & John by Pierre Lemaitre, author and screenwriter of the Paris Crime Files a.k.a. Verhœven series. A Goncourt prizewinner, he is the acknowledged master of French Noir. Rosy & John, translated […]

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The Mystery of Henri Pick David Foenkinos Review

July 3, 2020 Guest Contributor Comments Off

The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos, translated by Sam Taylor, reviewed by Henrietta Foster for BookBlast. In January of this year when the world was quite normal with open functioning cinemas there was […]

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The Horseman’s Song Ben Pastor Review

May 5, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of The Horseman’s Song, the sixth in the Martin Bora series following on from the success of Road to Ithaca, Tin Sky, A Dark Song of Blood, Lumen and Liar Moon. “Bora felt […]