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"The melding of fiction, memoir and history raises questions about the extent to which a novelist fuses the raw material of life with their fertile imagination."
Georgia de Chamberet @bookblast.org admires Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me
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Georgia de Chamberet @bookblast.org admires Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me
bookanista.com/memoir-social-history-and-more/
Memoir, social history and more
Georgia de Chamberet finds much to admire in Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me, a dual biography of Dickens and the author’s workhouse apprentice ancestor.
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One for your TBR pile folks! A clever, many-layered read by award-winning novelist @nicholasblincoe.bsky.social 💙📚
Et voila ladies & gentlemen, this year’s winner… 🥳👏
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Et voila ladies & gentlemen, this year’s winner… 🥳👏
Sounds wonderfully surreal, must read! 💙📚
Oh my gosh!!! 🪼💙🪼💙🪼💙!!!
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.
Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Sounds wonderfully surreal, must read! 💙📚
Intriguing….🤔👍
'If you think you’ve heard this kind of story before, think again.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘Breathtaking, immensely beautiful and impossible to stop reading.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On the Calculation of Volume III is nearly here! Publishing 18 November 📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
‘Breathtaking, immensely beautiful and impossible to stop reading.’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On the Calculation of Volume III is nearly here! Publishing 18 November 📚
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Intriguing….🤔👍
Machine translation can be useful for mundane or technical texts, but it falls short when applied to creative works & literature. The results are monotonous, with one-dimensional characters, awkward or repetitive word choices and inaccuracies galore 😫😵💫
When I was translating Arqueles Vela's Señorita Etc. (famed as the first avantgarde stories from Latin America) there were so many times where the use of the word by Vela was uhhh quite far from "the first definition you find in the dictionary" which is what machine translation always does
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Machine translation can be useful for mundane or technical texts, but it falls short when applied to creative works & literature. The results are monotonous, with one-dimensional characters, awkward or repetitive word choices and inaccuracies galore 😫😵💫
Important that disillusioned writers of good fiction remember this! Much as writing a good novel is the hardest thing to achieve.
Self-publishing history. Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities in his periodical. Melville, Hardy, and Twain all subsidized early works, paying publishers to issue them. And Leonard and Virginia Woolf started Hogarth Press to publish Virginia's fiction that was too innovative for mainstream houses.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Important that disillusioned writers of good fiction remember this! Much as writing a good novel is the hardest thing to achieve.
A pleasure 😉
Thanks so much! xxxx
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A pleasure 😉
One for your TBR pile folks! A clever, many-layered read by award-winning novelist @nicholasblincoe.bsky.social 💙📚
"The melding of fiction, memoir and history raises questions about the extent to which a novelist fuses the raw material of life with their fertile imagination."
Georgia de Chamberet @bookblast.org admires Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me
bookanista.com/memoir-social-history-and-more/
Georgia de Chamberet @bookblast.org admires Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me
bookanista.com/memoir-social-history-and-more/
Memoir, social history and more
Georgia de Chamberet finds much to admire in Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me, a dual biography of Dickens and the author’s workhouse apprentice ancestor.
bookanista.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
One for your TBR pile folks! A clever, many-layered read by award-winning novelist @nicholasblincoe.bsky.social 💙📚
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
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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
Another one for the TBR pile 👍
Paperback, with new preface, available TODAY
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Another one for the TBR pile 👍
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Hahhhh 🙃
The first instalment of our subscriber-only collaboration with the FT is live today. Our @caiwei.bsky.social speaks with John Thornhill about who is winning the AI race: China or Silicon Valley www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/03/1...
The State of AI: Is China about to win the race?
In this conversation, the FT’s John Thornhill and MIT Technology Review’s Caiwei Chen consider the battle between Silicon Valley and Beijing for technological supremacy.
www.technologyreview.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hahhhh 🙃
Sick of the usual genre fiction? Looking for something a little different? Come say hello and explore today!
tinyurl.com/9tp66esa
tinyurl.com/9tp66esa
The 100 Best Novels in Translation Boyd Tonkin Review | BookBlast®
Book Blast review. The 100 Best Novels in Translation edited by Boyd Tonkin, literary editor of The Independent newspaper from 1996 to 2013
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November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sick of the usual genre fiction? Looking for something a little different? Come say hello and explore today!
tinyurl.com/9tp66esa
tinyurl.com/9tp66esa
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 😱
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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 😱
More bookish activism - we need good brain food! 🤗
If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Join the movement.
We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans
uniteagainstbookbans.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
More bookish activism - we need good brain food! 🤗
Nice one!✊👍
And don’t forget that you can still get 20% off on select banned and challenged titles on our site through October 19 using code BBW25 at checkout!
Keep reading. Keep fighting the good fight. I’ll see you soon. 💜
Keep reading. Keep fighting the good fight. I’ll see you soon. 💜
November 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Nice one!✊👍
More info, lookie here folks! 👀
You can watch the full interview here:
Author Robert Reich in conversation with Bookshop.org Founder/CEO Andy Hunter
YouTube video by Bookshop
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
More info, lookie here folks! 👀
Where do you buy your books? Take note and blockade! 👿🕊️📚
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Where do you buy your books? Take note and blockade! 👿🕊️📚
One for the diary! 📝
That’s a wrap. Thank you for fighting censorship with us! Let's keep this momentum going until we gather again October 4-10, 2026, because every week is #BannedBooksWeek and we are stronger TOGETHER!
#CensorshipIsSo1984
#CensorshipIsSo1984
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
One for the diary! 📝
Living a multicultural lifestyle? Enrich your bookshelf by discovering great reads from around the world with us tinyurl.com/53besuyb
What I Know About You Eric Chacour, A Man With No Title Xavier Le Clerc Review | BookBlast®
BookBlast Diary review of Eric Chacour’s novel What I Know About You and Xavier Le Clerc’s A Man With No Title which both shed light on the complex lives of people living between cultures
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October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Living a multicultural lifestyle? Enrich your bookshelf by discovering great reads from around the world with us tinyurl.com/53besuyb
Q&A with @cdrose.bsky.social from some years ago when he took part with @commapress.bsky.social in our 10x10 tour around the regions of England in association with @waterstones.bsky.social Great to see him doing well & shortlisted for @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social 🥳
bookblast.org/blog/intervi...
bookblast.org/blog/intervi...
C D Rose Author Interview | BookBlast®
BookBlast interviews author C D Rose who will be on with Ian Duhig, Ra Page at Waterstones, Leeds, 10x10 Tour Talk 3.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Q&A with @cdrose.bsky.social from some years ago when he took part with @commapress.bsky.social in our 10x10 tour around the regions of England in association with @waterstones.bsky.social Great to see him doing well & shortlisted for @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social 🥳
bookblast.org/blog/intervi...
bookblast.org/blog/intervi...
Good selection for the TBR pile 👀💙📚
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Good selection for the TBR pile 👀💙📚
Nice one! 👏🤗
A few weeks back I sat down for a long chat with living legend Eddy Grant. Here's my piece about The Equals for Bandcamp Daily daily.bandcamp.com/lists/before...
Before “Electric Avenue,” Eddy Grant Melded Mod & Soul in The Equals
The UK group anticipated punk, glam, disco, and so much more.
daily.bandcamp.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Nice one! 👏🤗
The horror …. ‘La Symphonie des Monstres’, Marc Levy's 25th novel, centres around the deportation of Valentyn, a Ukrainian child, to a Russian camp ….
How many #Ukrainian children have been stolen by #Russia?
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
Kateryna Rashevska answers this question in our podcast episode. She also explains how Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children, reprograms them, and why it does so.
Support us: www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld.
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
Kateryna Rashevska answers this question in our podcast episode. She also explains how Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children, reprograms them, and why it does so.
Support us: www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld.
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The horror …. ‘La Symphonie des Monstres’, Marc Levy's 25th novel, centres around the deportation of Valentyn, a Ukrainian child, to a Russian camp ….
Clever stuff … AI may be everywhere but it’s still in its infancy given all the mistakes it makes, needs to learn & grow as a child does. Even then nothing can truly match the human touch! 😂🤣
Take a moment today to check out @wired.com's AI of a Thousand Faces issue. www.wired.com/ai-issue/ super gorgeous
AI of a Thousand Faces
What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Clever stuff … AI may be everywhere but it’s still in its infancy given all the mistakes it makes, needs to learn & grow as a child does. Even then nothing can truly match the human touch! 😂🤣
Ooh la la! Now for some clever, quality, snazzmatazz Halloween fun! 😘🌹
October 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Ooh la la! Now for some clever, quality, snazzmatazz Halloween fun! 😘🌹