Horizons is launching the volume Mabel Strickland Bejn Storja u Miti Ġabra ta' Kitbiet edited by Sergio Grech. This book is part of a successful series that so for has analysed the lives of Duminku Mintoff, Eddie Fenech Adami, Herbert Ganado, Monsinjur Victor Grech and Father Hilary Tagliaferro.

There was a need for an accademic publication about Mabel Strickland who was known among the Maltese as Mabel. Mabel, daughter of Prime Minister Lord Strickland, was the pivot that helped The Times newspapers in Malta in becoming a primary source of journalism. Even more, the previous biography on Mabel, which was written by Joan Alexander, was too romantic and apart from this, all its copies were recalled from the market after Mintoff took legal action against the publishers stating that there were some inaccuracies about him.  

Mabel was politicaly active for a while, and this book gives detailed attention to this part of her life. She was a true Imperialist and could not understand how Malta could function without the English Colony. She opposed the Maltese Independence together with the politics of Mintoff. She was almost his shadow in the Opposition.

This book sets out some questions about her role in the colonial and post-colonial life of Malta. For the first time, her sister Cecilia de Trafford, who for some time was very close to Mintoff, and thus Mable's antagoist, is also brought in the picture. The Maltese women's role in the political sphere is also being discussed.

In this edition, among the contributors one finds Victor Aquilina, Tonio Borg (Ex-European Commissioner), Mgr Philip Calleja, Prof. George Cassar, Andre P. DeBattista, Max Farrugia, Laurence Grech (journalist), Sergio Grech, Prof. Chandrika Kaul from St Andrew's University, Prof. Godfrey A. Pirotta, Prof.  John Portelli, Dr Simon Mercieca, Prof. Carmen Sammut, together with Nadia Abdilla and Dr Charles Xuereb.