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Ooh ah Cantona! Ooh ah nostalgie! A clever little book this, not the usual predictable football offering…..
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Looking forward to this! A glorious read….
A lyrical meditation on memory, grief, unconventional female love, The Roof Beneath Her Feet by International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree is our book club pick Mon 8 June 6pm at Hatchards Piccadilly.
Come along for a rousing discussion!
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Our book club read up for discussion next Mon 8 June at 6pm @Hatchards Piccadilly - glorious and lyrical.
See linktr.ee/bookblast for tickets & more!
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A lyrical meditation on memory, grief, unconventional female love, The Roof Beneath Her Feet by International Booker winner Geetanjali Shree is our book club pick Mon 8 June 6pm at Hatchards Piccadilly.
Come along for a rousing discussion!
Tikts linktr.ee/bookblast
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Upcoming BookBlast book club pick, My Women by Yuliia Iliukha tr. Hanna Leliv, is a powerful collection of flash fiction by women enduring war. On 2025 EBRD Literature Prize shortlist. Yuliia now lives in Austria. Join us 6pm Mon 11 May @Hatchards
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Cecilia Sala creates an unflinching portrait of young generations in Iran, Ukraine, Afghanistan fighting for
change in THE FIRE « Immersive & original » New York Times Book Review
Come join our book club discussion @hatchards 6pm Mon 13 April linktr.ee/bookblast
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Our book club pick for 9 March at Hatchards, Piccadilly 6pm Tickets link in bio. See you there!
Lovers of Franz K Burhan Sönmez Review bookblast.org/blog/lovers-of…
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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month bookblast.org/blog/reading-a…
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East Asian Literature Leads the Way Taiwan, Korea & Japan Spotlight bookblast.org/blog/east-asia…
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Charlie Coombe & Tina Kover talk language, literature, translating across languages & more in an inspiring interview bookblast.org/blog/charlie-c…
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Looking forward to this!
Do come along if you can!
Tickets available: BookblastChamberetHatchards.…
#SmallBoat #VincentDelecroix #HelenStevenson @hoperoadpublish #Translation
Not your usual book club read! Imagine being in the shoes of those in the dinghy in November 2021 when 27 died?
Join us 6pm Monday 9 February @hatchards to discuss SMALL BOAT by Vincent Delecroix with translator Helen Stevenson
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Not your usual book club read! Imagine being in the shoes of those in the dinghy in November 2021 when 27 died?
Join us 6pm Monday 9 February @hatchards to discuss SMALL BOAT by Vincent Delecroix with translator Helen Stevenson
#bookclub #shortlist
#internationalbookerprize
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Venice Requiem by @khalidlym, translated by @RosSchwartz and published by @hoperoadpublish — “A vibrant and poetic tribute to all African migrants. A necessary book” (Jury of the Alain Spiess Second Novel Prize).
👉 hoperoadpublishing.com/books…
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Who’s responsible for migrants drowning in the Channel? The author of Small Boat compels us to imagine ourselves being in the dinghy then the freezing sea…. Join us & @HelenStevenson4 @hoperoadpublish 6pm on Mon 9 February @Hatchards tickets via linktr.ee/bookblast
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This will be such a fascinating discussion and, brilliantly, translator Helen Stevenson will be with us for the evening!
#SmallBoat #VincentDelecroix @hoperoadpublish @bookblast @TheBookerPrizes
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Based on a real event, Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix @hoperoadpublish is written from the POV of a French coastguard who let migrants sink in a dinghy in the Channel; 27 died.
Join us 6pm Mon 9 Feb @Hatchards to discuss this powerful read Tickets via link in bio
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Based on a real event, Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix @hoperoadpublish is written from the POV of a French coastguard who let migrants sink in a dinghy in the Channel; 27 died.
Join us 6pm Mon 9 Feb @Hatchards to discuss this powerful read Tickets via link in bio
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Far is a dark, satirical, very Spanish love story with echoes of Claudia Piñeiro and JG Ballard,” Sam Jones, The Guardian
Check out the BookBlast Diary review of FAR by Rosa Ribas @foundryeditions.bsky.social
Join our book club 6pm Mon 12 Jan @hatchards to discuss it. Link in bio
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Far by Rosa Ribas @FoundryEditions is our book club choice for this month. Join us @Hatchards Piccadilly 12/1 at 6pm to discuss how it is compulsively readable, with its hallucinatory landscape, fragmented world, simmering violence, oddball love story tinyurl.com/mrxd22hs
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“He wanted to forget not only what he’d done, but above all the person he was when he did it and the reasons he’d become so corrupt.” A man hides in a remote unfinished Spanish housing development. Join us 6pm Mon 12/1 @Hatchards to discover more linktr.ee/bookblast
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