Want to win the perfect summer read? We have 3 novels up for grabs, & will pick ONE lucky winner for each! Visit bookblast.org/competition to find out T&Cs and Enter. 1 entry per person per book. Ends: 23 July 6 pm BST. UK residents. Winners chosen only from here. Watch out for scam accounts!

If you’re in London at the end of July this discussion is not one to miss! We’re looking forward to it. tinyurl.com/jcy5jveb

This month’s BookBlast book club choice, My Women by Yuliia Iliukha tr. Hanna Leliv, is a powerful collection of flash fiction by women enduring war. Shortlisted 2025 EBRD Literature Prize. Yuliia now lives in Austria. Join us 6pm, Mon 11 May Hatchards Piccadilly. Tickets via linktr.ee/bookblast

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 piccadilly 6pm Mon 13 April linktr.ee/bookblast

Does he even know what a library is? Other than this kind of course! 🤯

« A powerful, unflinching portrait of a generation fighting for change in Iran, Afghanistan, Ukraine » How is Gen Z living with war, repression, revolution & fighting for freedom? Join us 6pm Mon 13 April to discuss The Fire by Cecilia Sala @europaeditions.bsky.social Tix www.linktr.ee/bookblast

Thanks for the follows folks, appreciated! 👏🌞

Not your usual book club read! Imagine being in the shoes of those in the dinghy in November 2021 when 27 drowned? Join us 6pm Monday 9 February @hatchards to discuss SMALL BOAT by Vincent Delecroix with translator Helen Stevenson #bookclub #shortlist #internationalbookerprize

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 & @helenstevenson.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social 6pm Mon 9 February @hatchards.bsky.social Tickets via linktr.ee/bookblast

Based on a real event, Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix is written through the POV of a French coastguard employee who let migrants sink in a dinghy in the Channel - 27 died. Join us at our book club 6pm Monday 9 Feb @hatchardspiccadilly to discuss this brief, powerful novel tickets via link in bio

Far translated by Charlotte Coombe, 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

“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 what happens linktr.ee/bookblast

Warmest wishes to you all for a joyous Christmas and a successful 2026 from Georgia and Team BookBlast

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Last Evenings with Teresa by Juan Marsé is an engrossing read imbued with literary sophistication and emotional force bookblast.org/blog/last-ev...

At Istros Books seasonal shindig, Ludovic Bruckstein’s son spoke about how his father’s novellas capture the subtle, insidious rise of totalitarianism & prejudice in ordinary lives, shattering harmonious living between communities. An illuminating read in our age of increasingly ‘normalised’ cruelty

An inspiring wide-ranging discussion was had about Roque Larraquy’s weird funny fabulous novel at our book club on Monday at Hatchards with heavyweight translator of contemporary French and Spanish literature Frank Wynne @terribleman.com in attendance.

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The National Telepathy by Roque Larraquy, skilfully translated by @terribleman.com is an extraordinary, disturbing darkly funny read perfect for our age of Horror Politics! Join us at our book club Mon 8 December 6pm to discuss it & enjoy a festive drink or two on the house www.linktr.ee/bookblast

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Andrey Kurkov in conversation with Tim Judah. Three Years on Fire. Daunt Books Notting Hill 6.30pm. Sold Out. Superb

Political leadership today in many, albeit not all, countries & continents?!🤔😵‍💫🥹

We’re discussing Oliver Norek’s The Winter Warriors at our book club on Monday at 6pm @hatchards.bsky.social Piccadilly. Got your tickets yet? Come & share your thoughts about this very fine writer with good company over a glass of wine! Tickets > linktr.ee/bookblast

Chilling to say the least! #Truth #Ethics #InnerStrength #Heart #CriticalThinking #Humanity

Romania’s new ‘just-opened’ Orthodox Cathedral rather trumps (*lol*) the ballroom being built on the trashed remains of the White House East wing inspired by the Winter Palace ballroom in St Petersburg 😱

Patrícia Melo is a Brazilian author of more than a dozen novels. The Simple Art of Killing, translated by Sophie Lewis, is reviewed for us by Nick Caistor. Visit BookBlast® Diary to read the full review. 🔗linktr.ee/bookblast

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The long-awaited publication of one of Juan Marsé’s greatest novels LAST EVENINGS WITH TERESA translated by Nick Caistor was celebrated this evening at cervanteslondon.bsky.social out with Mountain Leopard Press 🥳 A novel about ambition and desire in postwar Barcelona I can’t wait to get stuck in!

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