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Sloane Crosley releases next book of essays

Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 08:44 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Look Alive Out There: Essays" (MCD/FSG), by Sloane Crosley Established writer and best-selling author Sloane Crosley is back with a third book of essays. Ten years after the debut of "I Was Told...

New book chronicles 50 years of Malta Enterprise

Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 10:02 Last update: about 8 years ago

A book on the history of events leading up to the Malta Development Corporation (MDC) foundation and eventually taken over by Malta Enterprise (ME) in 2004, was launched this week in celebration of...

A taste of French to kindle a taste for French

Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 09:59 Last update: about 8 years ago

As a form of outreach towards schools, the French Subject Area within the University of Malta's Department of Languages and Humanities (DLHE) organised an activity for Year 6 students following their...

Scandals, past and present

Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 09:38 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

On the 50th anniversary of Malta's Independence, this author takes us around a modern version of Dante's Purgatory - Malta. Just as Dante's Florence comes across in La Divina Commedia as a...

Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964

Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 09:37 Last update: about 8 years ago

Volume IV in the series Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964 by Professor Joseph M. Pirotta, will be launched to the general public on Thursday 21 May at 7pm in the Main Hall of the Malta Chamber...

Jo Nesbo's 'Macbeth' is recast of Shakespeare play

Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 08:42 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Macbeth" (Hogarth), by Jo Nesbo "Macbeth" is a modern-day drug-war, power-struggle, double-cross, lawmen-versus-gangsters recast of Shakespeare's Scottish play, "Macbeth." Set in an unnamed...

Loretta Nyhan sifts through chaos of life in 'Digging In'

Monday, 14 May 2018, 08:40 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Digging In: a Novel" (Lake Union Publishing), by Loretta Nyhan For the majority of her life, Paige depended on one person. Her husband was her rock, her equal and the one she could always...

Cleo Wade's book 'Heart Talk' encourages a healthy soul diet

Friday, 11 May 2018, 10:19 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Cleo Wade is known for not only her poetry, but her positive, uplifting Instagram mantras that have earned a following that includes Yara Shahidi and Jessica Alba. So it's not surprising that on...

Book on film 'Giant' a window into 1950s Hollywood

Thursday, 10 May 2018, 10:17 Last update: about 8 years ago

"Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film" (St. Martin's Press), by Don Graham No matter what you think of the 1956 epic "Giant"...

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