BookBlast Ltd is a London-based literary agency which handles fiction and non-fiction — memoir, travel, popular culture, multicultural writing. Currently reading very selectively. Commission: home 12% overseas & radio 20% TV, film & electronic 20%. For more information see submissions
BookBlast also offers translation consultancy and literary PR services at affordable rates.
BookBlast was founded in 1997 by Georgia de Chamberet, dubbed 'L'enfant terrible of British publishing' by Le Figaro in 1999. She edited XCiTés: the Flamingo Book of New French Writing , showcasing a new generation of French writers, including Frédéric Beigbeder, Tonino Benacquista, Virginie Despentes, Marie Desplechin, Michel Houellebecq, Abdourahman Waberi.
Formerly an editor at Quartet Books collaborating with editorial director, Stephen Pickles, and editor-at-large, Anthony Blond, Georgia's credits include: The Death of Napoleon Simon Leys (winner of the 1992 Independent Award for Foreign Fiction), The Voice of the Turtle: an anthology of Cuban Short Stories Peter Bush (ed.), Blond's Roman Emperors Anthony Blond, The Untimely Death Of A Nihilist Rick Bluett, Reads Like a Novel Daniel Pennac, Incomparable World S. I. Martin; new titles and the best of world writing in translation (Quartet Encounters) by Aharon Appelfeld, E. M. Cioran, Stig Dagerman, Per Olov Enquist, Annie Ernaux, Juan Goytisolo, Hervé Guibert, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Rachid Mimouni, Juan Carlos Onetti, Pier Paolo Pasolini ...; reprints Gross Intrusion and Other Stories Steven Berkoff, A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 Alethea Hayter, The Green Carnation Robert Hichens, Journey Through a Small Planet Emanuel Litvinoff and others.
Georgia's commitment to literary translation led her to becoming a committee member of English PEN's Writers in Translation programme. She also writes for websites wordswithoutborders.org and 3ammagazine.com
THE INDEPENDENT - 15 June 2002 - Georgia de Chamberet discovers young and mixed-up France through its fresh literary talents ... more
ELLE - August 1999 - Houellebecq, Despentes, Beigbeder & co - Paris is burning ... more
LE MONDE - 27 August 1999 - An anthology of new French fiction published in London reveals how the British see French literature ... more
The Quartet Years by Georgia de Chamberet, first published in Naim Attallah's autobiography Fulfilment & Betrayal 1975-1995 (Quartet Books, May 2007) ... read
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