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Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals Valentin Deudon Review

June 9, 2026 Ben F Comments Off on Éric Cantona’s 82 Goals Valentin Deudon Review
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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Earliest Stories 1880-1882, Anton Chekhov (eds) Rosamund Bartlett, Elena Michajlowska Review

January 30, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Earliest Stories 1880-1882, Anton Chekhov (eds) Rosamund Bartlett, Elena Michajlowska Review
Anton Chekhov’s short stories are staples of English literature degrees and creative writing courses alike, routinely held up as an example of “show, don’t tell.” Revered as a master of psychological realism, he demonstrates how […]
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Lucy Popescu Journalist & Editor Interview

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Book Blast interview with journalist & editor Lucy Popescu Lucy Popescu, tell us about your childhood and where you grew up I grew up in Oxfordshire. My late mother was the children’s author, Christine Pullein-Thompson […]
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BookBlast Estates News: Journey into the Mind’s Eye by Lesley Blanch reissued by New York Review of Books Classics Lesley Blanch: “My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will […]
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Croquis d’une vie de bohème Lesley Blanch News Archive

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CROQUIS D’UNE VIE DE BOHÈME Lesley Blanch, La Table Ronde 19-04-2018 Préfacé et présenté par Georgia de Chamberet  Traduit de l’anglais par Lucien d’Azay Écrivain et voyageuse, fascinée par l’Orient, Lesley Blanch est restée célèbre […]
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Andrew Harmon Theatre Director & Writing Coach Interview

March 17, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Andrew Harmon Theatre Director & Writing Coach Interview
BookBlast interview with Andy Harmon, Theatre Director & Writing Coach Andy, where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in 1946 in Studio City, California. Studio City was ‘The Home […]
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New year, new in from France: here is the BookBlast list of top 5 French reads creating a buzz across the Channel, found for translation into English. I, Self, Me: social media and the human […]
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From the archive: articles by Gael Elton Mayo. Jean Anouilh (1910-87) dramatist & screenwriter was interviewed by her in 1956 for Queen Magazine. Best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ classical […]

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Looking for an unputdownable crime read? Look no f Looking for an unputdownable crime read? Look no further! 
Surface by Olivier Norek translated by Nick Caistor is the ultimate police procedural due out with @openborderspress 
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As @emily.unwin puts it, genre writing requires a pact with the reader and @NorekOlivier delivers a perfectly packaged, gripping story from start to finish. One for your TBR pile that's for sure! 
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Women in Translation Month may be ending, but grea Women in Translation Month may be ending, but great literature is timeless. Whose world will you step into next?
We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Maureen Freely and her team @elifgulez.writer spotlighting @warwickprizewomenintranslation The annual prize celebrates the finest full-length book written by a woman translated into English, published in the UK or Ireland. All literary genres are welcomed: novels, poetry, creative non-fiction, graphic novels, children’s or YA fiction, short story collections, novellas and plays.
Established in 2017, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation champions and propels international women’s voices from the periphery into mainstream cultural conversations.
‘We’ve come a long way with the championing of world literature over the past decade... In the same period, however, we’ve noticed that it is markedly more difficult for women to make it into English translation. This prize offers us an opportunity to welcome in the voices and perspectives we’ve missed thus far,’ Maureen Freely, BookBlast Diary - read the full feature on our website. 
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