Like other female writers who were brought up in a (probably single sex) Catholic school (another writer who comes to mind is Karen Armstrong who had also been a nun) Marina Warner was brought up in a...

One of the most impressive traits of the Maltese national psyche is that during times of wars, pandemics and other trials and tribulations, the Maltese people rose to the occasion demonstrating...

In 2019, famous Italian writer Roberto Saviano spoke and wrote many times about Malta and its connections with organised crime. He was speaking and writing in the aftermath of the murder of...

This is a dense, highly interesting and entertaining book about a period that we know so little about, that we call it the Dark Ages, roughly from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the beginning of...

Paul P. Borg is today one of the most prolific authors in Maltese, with a string of novels making him one of the most-read authors. From writing about Selmun, an area he knows well, to other...

Margaret Atwood is of course the well-known Canadian author of, among others, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Blind Assassin (2000). She wrote this book in 2008 when the world was battling the...

Camila Alves McConaughey has co-written a new children's book about a bunch of picky eaters. Only in this case, the picky eaters aren't the children. "Just Try One Bite" (Penguin Random House)...

This novel is author Sally Rooney's second novel, published after Conversations with Friends.  It is set in Dublin and Carricklea and in 2019 won the British Book Award for Book of the Year. It...

Readers across the world were recently alerted to the impressive talent of Maltese writers when The Sheriff's Catch, debut novel of prolific Maltese expat writer James Vella-Bardon, was named...

Even though the story is set in the 1930s, Aleks Farrugia's Camerata! is not a historical novel: the author is too liberal with historical accuracy, at least in this reviewer's opinion. So it's a...