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Winter in Sokcho Elisa Shua Dusapin Review

April 2, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Winter in Sokcho Elisa Shua Dusapin Review
BookBlast review of Winter in Sokcho by French-Korean author Elisa Shua Dusapin — born to a French father and a South Korean mother like the heroine of her first novel which has gained recognition worldwide.
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Along the Amber Route St Petersburg to Venice C. J. Schüler Review

March 2, 2020 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Along the Amber Route St Petersburg to Venice C. J. Schüler Review
BookBlast reviews the travelogue memoir Along the Amber Route, St Petersburg to Venice by C. J. Schüler. “I am standing in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. In a glass case in front of me are […]
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Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds XII BookBlast Recommends

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BookBlast’s Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds for this month take in calypso and a debut children’s book by Junot Díaz; Europe and the Middle East; murder most foul in the Australian Outback; tales of […]
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Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds XI BookBlast Recommends

May 31, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds XI BookBlast Recommends
BookBlast’s Top 10 Reads this month is going up at the eleventh hour as I have just got back from a break in Patmos, a paradise in the Aegean Sea . . . The independent […]
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February 4, 2018 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Gael Elton Mayo Letter from Brittany BookBlast® Estates
Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer and artist, first wrote a column while living in Spain in the 1950s for The Spanish-American Courier. This piece came out in April 1954. In the northwest of Spain, […]
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Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds VI Book Blast Recommends

December 25, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds VI Book Blast Recommends
BookBlast Top 10 reads for December: a time of merry abandon, or seasonal reflection? Our round up of eclectic reads to delight and inspire you takes in both . . . Happy Christmas! @bookblast Black […]
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Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds V BookBlast Recommends

November 25, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds V BookBlast Recommends
Our BookBlast November top 10 reads rejoice in strong women and have a radical, cosmopolitan flavour. We continue our celebration of 15 years of the Childrens’ Bookshow, highlighting two more books featured in this year’s […]
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The Directors of Eland Books Interview

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BookBlast interview with Rose & Barnaby, Eland Books Rose & Barnaby, tell us a bit about yourselves. Were your parents great readers? ROSE: No, but there were books around. I was quite a lonely child, […]

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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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