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Introducing Malta: A City State, complete and fragile

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:08 Last update: about 10 years ago Oliver Friggieri

An introduction to the island The newcomer can immediately discover the real essence of that stretch of land permanently lurking alone, in apparent oblivion of all, in the middle of the...

Xbihat fuq it-Tila

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:06 Last update: about 10 years ago

Horizons Communications has published another book written by Salv Sammut, Xbihat fuq it-Tila (Figures in a Landscape). The title instantly implies an element of symbolism and metaphor of imagined...

Alexandra

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:06 Last update: about 10 years ago

Milenco had the world in his hands. He was the heir of Barcellon's Diego Garcia Department Stores, one of the biggest in the whole of Spain.  He was filthy rich. Yet life wasn't a picnic. In fact...

‘Id-Dnub ma jorqodx’

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:05 Last update: about 10 years ago

Following the success of his novel Il-Ġurament tal-Ħatra published in 2013, author Lawrence Gatt has just returned to the bookshelves with his latest novel Id-Dnub ma jorqodx, published by...

A pot-pourri of stories

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

Apart from his political life and career, former premier Alfred Sant is undoubtedly one of Malta's most prolific writers, with his literary output ranging from full scale novels, collections of essays...

'Irrationally Yours' delivers clever advice wrapped in humor

Saturday, 20 June 2015, 13:32 Last update: about 10 years ago

In his compilation of articles from his Wall Street Journal column, "Ask Ariely," Dan Ariely wraps in a clever bow all the questions we've ever wanted answered concerning the behavioral intricacies...

In new Spenser thriller: Kids are OK, judges aren't

Friday, 19 June 2015, 13:30 Last update: about 10 years ago

When a teenager's innocent social media prank turns into a punishing trip behind bars, the Boston private eye Spenser begins a probe that stretches from freezing, blustery New England all the way to a...

Melissa Rivers is funny and affectionate in 'Book of Joan'

Thursday, 18 June 2015, 13:29 Last update: about 10 years ago

Consider it mission accomplished on both counts, thanks to her best-selling memoir, "The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief and Manipulation" (Crown Archetype). It's a touching, revealing and...

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