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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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Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals Valentin Deudon Review

June 9, 2026 Ben F Comments Off

Valentin Deudon is a French poet, author and football fan, which is what makes Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals different to the usual journalistic endeavour. Instead of being yet another biography, to add to those by […]

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Zombie Proust Jérôme Prieur Review

December 16, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Marcel Proust may have died over a century ago, but his legacy endures. Readers are still captivated by the way À la recherche du Temps Perdu redefined modern literature; by how Proust shows the drama […]

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John-Paul Pryor & Graham Fink in Conversation Fitzrovia W1 Explorations

March 15, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Graham Fink, the multimedia artist, is one of the world’s most awarded creatives Formerly at Ogilvy China, his decades-long career has included senior creative posts at CDP, GGT and M&C Saatchi. Some of his most […]

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The Rain Watcher Tatiana de Rosnay Review

May 15, 2019 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of The Rain Watcher by bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay. Together with Dan Brown, Stephanie Meyer and Stieg Larsson, she has been named one of the top ten fiction writers in Europe. “The […]

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The Dandy at Dusk Philip Mann Review

September 13, 2017 Guest Contributor Comments Off

The Dandy at Dusk by Philip Mann reviewed by C. J. Schüler for BookBlast. What makes a dandy? In the popular imagination, the dandy is a peacock, eccentrically and eye-catchingly dressed. Nothing, however, could be […]

Soho Bohemia Philip Mann Explorations

September 12, 2017 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Soho bohemia by Philip Mann, written in the spirit of: “For thirty years I hid my fame in taverns”. “Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be,” the hypochondriac Mr. Wodehouse says in Jane Austen’s […]

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Philip Mann Author Interview

September 12, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Philip Mann, author Philip Mann, where were you born, and where did you grow up? I was born in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, but grew up in West Berlin by […]