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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, […]

The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat BookBlast Review

The Aquatics Osvalde Lewat Review

August 17, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet 0

‘A series of photographs titled, The Aquatics, featured terrified faces emerging from wastewater and flooding, ID cards floating, women hoisting babies, lamps or suitcases overhead, the swollen face of a drowned man. The images weren’t […]

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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

May 24, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Our monthly top 5 books roundup brings together idiosyncratic strong voices in translation, each tracking the art of survival across vastly different landscapes. Whether navigating the external terrors of a regime or the internal wilderness […]

bookblast review Liquid Reflections Liliane Lijn

Liquid Reflections Liliane Lijn Review

August 31, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Liquid Reflections is a headlong dive into the coming-of-age of Liliane Lijn as an artist. The linear, raw narrative starts in Paris in 1958 where she lands from America. She is just eighteen and enrols […]

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Of Lead and Gold François Jonquet 4Translation

January 26, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Of Lead and Gold, De Plomb et d’Or by François Jonquet found 4Translation Over the past twenty years, I have kept a keen eye on the work of François Jonquet and his novelistic biographies 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 […]

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The Story of Langford Grove School & Among the Bohemians Review

May 28, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast review of The Story of Langford Grove School 1923-62, an illuminating dive into progressive education through the life of avant-garde educator Elizabeth Curtis, and Among the Bohemians by Virginia Nicholson about the unconventional lives […]

Memories of a Documentary Filmmaker Antony Thomas book blast review

In the Line of Fire Antony Thomas Review

March 25, 2022 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Antony Thomas was making documentary films at a time in film and TV when leading producers and executives were backed by their organizations, could stand by their principles and get films made. Three very different […]