
The BookBlast® Podcast is for writers, translators and curious readers who want a behind-the-scenes snapshot of the world of literature and translation. BookBlast® Diary launched in 2015 to celebrate independent thinking and international literature.BookBlast® is a registered trademark. Find us on instagram @bookblastofficial
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 42 | Founded | 6 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BooksSociety & CultureArts | |||

The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek, beautifully translated by Nick Caistor, out with Open Borders Press, is based on the forgotten conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union known as the Winter War. Norek draws on genuine battles and hardships w... more
Byron and the Beauty: A Turkish Tale by Muharem Bazdulj, translated by John Cox (2016), is an atmospheric, fictional reimagining of Lord Byron’s 1809 travels through the Balkans. Set over two weeks in October, the novel blends history, romance, and m... more
Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker and read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix is a stark, tragic, beautifully written novel which confronts the moral bankruptcy and paralysis of Western humanism and liberali... more
Anton Chekhov’s short stories are staples of English literature degrees and creative writing courses alike, yet his earliest stories written between the ages of twenty and twenty-two are often overlooked.
This volume of Chekov’s Earliest Stories: St... more
“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 on the run breaks into an unoccupied flat in an isolated, half-abandoned Spanish housing development, left un... more
The BookBlast® Translation Book Club meets in person on the second Monday of each month, hosted by Georgia de Chamberet, at Hatchards, Piccadilly, to discuss works of fiction in English translation published in the last ten years.
Hear special guest... more
Elena Knows, Claudia Piñeiro translated by Frances Riddle, out with Charco Press, discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly, London, in person with the author and her publisher. Shortlisted for the International Booker ... more
Fathers and Fugitives by S. J. Naude translated by Michiel Heyns, out with Europa Editions, discussed at the BookBlast® Translation Book Club, Hatchards, Piccadilly, London.
Fathers and Fugitives follows Daniel, a gay journalist in London, who becom... more
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