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The wily accountant outfoxed

Sunday, 5 January 2025, 17:47 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

Min nasab lis-Sur Wilf? Author: Ben AgiusPublisher: Horizons / 2024Pages: 208 This is the second time in under a year that I am reviewing a book by this prolific author. The other one...

From ‘dio trino’ to ‘dio quattrino’

Sunday, 22 December 2024, 10:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

Politics in the GospelAuthour: Charlo CamilleriPublisher: Horizons / 2023Pages: 139 The heading of this review would quite fit as a title of a sermon to be delivered these days in the wake of the...

Erotic affairs and crimes of Roman emperors

Sunday, 22 December 2024, 08:03 Last update: about 3 years ago

I welcome you with a Roman greeting: hic habitat felicitas - here lives happiness   For those about to read, turn over the page if you are scrupulous... Friends, Romans, Maltese...

Living a double life – twice over

Sunday, 15 December 2024, 10:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

Aimee Sinclair is an actress that is becoming more and more popular. She has been getting more and more film parts and is now instantly recognisable wherever she goes. But she carries around with...

A brand new publication about Ġorġ Borg Olivier

Sunday, 15 December 2024, 09:01 Last update: about 3 years ago

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Malta's Independence, the Nationalist Party has just published the book Ġorġ Borg Olivier, il-bniedem, il-politiku u l-Missier ta' Malta...

A conversation between two poets across one sea

Thursday, 12 December 2024, 10:36 Last update: about 3 years ago

We are all expanses of land and sea. The land and the sea are all of us. The sea divides us but also brings us together, just as the land does. The sea is a faultline - dangerous, unknowable - but...

From a beatnik to an oncology professor

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 10:01 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

When he was 16 his ambition in life was to be a hippie, with a guitar on his back and a wandering kind of life. By the time he became a pensioner he had become an oncologist and a very good one...

Picture book exploring modern isolation and connection

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 09:02 Last update: about 3 years ago

ors (bear) is a picture book by Miriam Galea, published by Kotba Calleja, launched at the Malta Book Festival at the MFCC in Ta' Qali, where the public had the opportunity to view some of the original...

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