"Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story" (Harper), by Rick Bragg Jerry Lee Lewis was a Louisiana-born supernova who helped create rock 'n' roll and raced toward stardom in the 1950s until his marriage to...

More than halfway through the second volume of his vivid, intimate biography of British artist David Hockney, Christopher Simon Sykes describes the moment in the 1980s when Hockney discovers the...

A tourist guide and movie enthusiast has produced a volume that documents every single cinema film fully or partly produced on the Maltese islands. The book will make an ideal Christmas gift for...

Malta and Gozo have served as a backdrop in scores of films since the first recorded instance of movie-making on the islands took place in 1925. Sometimes the islands have played themselves and...

A sign of a good quality picture book is when it is enjoyed not only by children but also by their parents and adults in general.   Merlin Publishers have published Il-fabbrika tal-kliem, a...

The author is listed on the book cover as Joseph Paul Cassar, the author of many other books on Maltese artists. But the real author is Mariz Cassar. Mariz is the daughter of Lewis Wirth and...

Feel the humiliation of the widowed guinea pig, so beaten down he contemplates suicide and questions his Christian faith. See through the eyes of the doting parents, who look past the signs of...

The New Yorker cartoonist is one of three winners of the inaugural Kirkus Prize, presented by the literary publication Kirkus Reviews and worth $50,000 for each winner, making it among the country's...

Named for the minor "Star Wars" character who fans demanded to know more about, Boba Fett Syndrome is most acute for any book or film series that has reached the level of phenomenon, when...

Fans of author Anne Lamott know reading her work is like finding a favorite sweater from the depths of the closet on the first crisp fall day: warm, comforting, familiar and easy. Her new book, "Small...