More about Zabbar’s history and culture
Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 10:14
Last update: about 10 years ago
Gladly, Malcolm Schembri has once again kept his annual appointment with all those Maltese who love and cherish the historical and cultural aspects of their country, particularly the people of Zabbar...
First picture dictionary in Maltese
Monday, 10 November 2014, 10:08
Last update: about 10 years ago
Another milestone in Maltese books has been reached recently, with the publication of the first picture dictionary in Maltese featuring an extensive list of words and pictures totally localised and...
Proliferating skeletons
Sunday, 9 November 2014, 21:02
Last update: about 10 years ago
Noel Grima
Charles R. Cassar'Stones of Faith'Tombstones, funerary rites and customs at the Gozo MatriceMidsea Books2012204 pp For some people Halloween is a time for riotous celebration, masquerade,...
New book by Frans Sammut on History of Education in Malta
Sunday, 9 November 2014, 21:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Frans Sammut published at least 26 works during his lifetime. Since his death in 2011, other works have been found by his family and efforts are underway to bring these works posthumously to...
Image of France in the Maltese mindset
Sunday, 9 November 2014, 20:49
Last update: about 10 years ago
France in the Maltese Collective Memory,Perceptions, Perspectives, Identities after Bonaparte in British Malta, Charles Xuereb, Malta University Press, 418 pp, 40c. This...
'The Killer Next Door' is gripping mystery
Sunday, 9 November 2014, 15:28
Last update: about 10 years ago
Desperation brings six people to a decaying Victorian apartment house where the tenants' desolation pales in comparison with one neighbor's despicable acts. Alex Marwood's second stand-alone...
The serious business of writing
Sunday, 9 November 2014, 10:11
Last update: about 10 years ago
Marie Benoît
Pierre Assouline, journalist, writer, blogger, broadcaster, member of the Académie Goncourt and one of the formidable forces in contemporary French literature is coming to Malta for the...
'Superstorm' crafts narrative from Sandy's wrath
Saturday, 8 November 2014, 15:27
Last update: about 10 years ago
It's been a weak hurricane season in the Atlantic so far, with little to worry U.S. coastal residents, but any forecaster will tell you: It only takes one storm to make a bad year. In...
'Sometimes the Wolf' is engrossing story
Friday, 7 November 2014, 15:22
Last update: about 10 years ago
A father-and-son relationship, perhaps broken beyond repair, fuels Urban Waite's engrossing novel that skillfully exposes the complicated emotions that can stymie a once close family while also...