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Small Boat a book by Vincent Delecroix and Helen Stevenson.
£12
Lovers of Franz K.
£12
Lowest Common Denominator
£14
Facing the Bridge
£12
The Fire: Voices of a Generation in Iran, Ukraine, & Afghanistan
£14
Apparitions
£11
Palestine Minus One - Stories from the eve of the Nakba | Comma Press
£11.99
Far
£12
Summer at Mount Asama Masashi Matsuie Review | BookBlast®
Last Evenings with Teresa: A Financial Times Book of the Year 2025
£16
Zombie Proust
£13
On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life
£10
In Farthest Seas
£10
The Winter Warriors a book by Olivier Norek and Nick Caistor.
$18
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
£9
Vaim
£12
Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev
£12
My Mother's Silver Fox
£19
Wolf Moon
£10
The Woman Dies
£14
Our Daily War
£10
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN: The Ebola Tales a book by Veronique Tadjo and John Cullen.
£9
Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation a book by OBE Andrew Hussey.
£23.75
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture a book by Matthew Teller and Mahmoud Muna.
£14
From the River to the Sea: and other poems
£16.04
A Carnival of Atrocities a book by Natalia Garcia Freire and Victor Meadowcroft.
£14
Owlish a book by Dorothy Tse and Natascha Bruce.
£13
The Palace on the Higher Hill by Karim Kattan, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Men Don't Cry a book by Faiza Guene, translated by Sarah Ardizzone.
Byron and the Beauty by Muharem Bazdulj, translated by John K. Cox
£9
Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro, translated by Frances Riddle
£11.39
Fathers and Fugitives by S J Naude, translated by Michiel Heyns
£14.24
Record of a Night Too Brief a book by Hiromi Kawakami and Lucy North.
£9
A Dictator Calls a book by Ismail Kadare and John Hodgson.
£9.49
Clara Reads Proust a book by Stphane Carlier and Polly Mackintosh.
£9.49
Warsaw Tales selected and tranlated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
£12.34
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg a book by Dubravka Ugresic, Celia Hawkesworth, Ellen Elias-bursac, et al.
£10.44
The Years a book by Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer.
£9.49
The Quarter a book by Naguib Mahfouz and Roger Allen.
£10.44
Grey Bees: A captivating, heartwarming story about a gentle beekeeper caught up in the war in Ukraine a book by Andrey Kurkov and Boris Dralyuk.
£10.44
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel a book by Olivier Guez and Georgia de Chamberet.
A Man With No Title by Xavier Le Clerc and William Rodarmor.
$10
What I Know About You a book by Eric Chacour and Pablo Strauss.
$9
The Last One a book by Fatima Daas and Lara Vergnaud.
Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, translated by Natasha Lehrer
Book Club
Get tickets: February Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly
Get tickets: February Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly
Join Bookblast's Georgia de Chamberet to discuss Vincent Delecroix's 'Small Boat' translated by Helen Stevenson.
Get tickets: March Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly
Get tickets: March Book Club at Hatchards, Piccadilly
Join Bookblast's Georgia de Chamberet to discuss "Lovers of Franz K" by Burhan Sönmez, translated from the Kurdish by Sami Hêzil.
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Review: Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix
Review: Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix
Review of Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix base on a real event: the November 2021 tragedy in which a dinghy carrying thirty-three migrants sank after its engine failed. Twenty-seven people, including women and children, died.
Review: Lovers of Franz K Burhan Sönmez Review
Review: Lovers of Franz K Burhan Sönmez Review
BookBlast review of Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez. It's a literary crime novel; a creative resurrection; a metafictional kaleidoscope where Poe meets Kafka whose bureaucracy is refracted through a Cold War lens
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Book List: Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
Book List: Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
BookBlast Diary Top 5 Books of the Month, January - Palestine Minus One: Stories from the eve of the Nakba (Ed) Basma Ghalayini, Apparitions Margo Glantz, The Fire: Voices of a Generation in Iran, Afghanistan and Ukraine Cecilia Sala, Facing the Bridge Yoko Tawada, Lowest Common Denominator Pirkko Saisio
Classic Reads: ON THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE: A Bohemian Life, Lesley Blanch
Classic Reads: ON THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE: A Bohemian Life, Lesley Blanch
The posthumously published memoirs of Lesley Blanch collect together her portrait of married life with Romain Gary; a selection of her journalism; and some evocative travel pieces, conveying the essence of a bohemian life
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Welcome to the website of Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (1904 – 2007), author of The Wilder Shores of Love; historian, journalist, travel writer
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