"Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Nancy Schoenberger American movies feature a handful of great actor-director...

A newly discovered Raymond Chandler story has everything from an indictment of the medical industry to some mysterious scribble. "It's All Right: He Only Died," the title suggesting a macabre Bob...

"The Vanishing Season" (Minotaur), by Joanna Schaffhausen Ellery Hathaway, junior officer on the police force in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, will do almost anything to convince her boss that...

The composer behind such iconic stage stories as "The Phantom of the Opera," ''Evita" and "Cats" is ready to tell his own. Andrew Lloyd Webber plans to release his autobiography "Unmasked" on...

When I started reading Massa's new novel Vaganzi Sajfin I immediately remembered William Wyler's 1953 film Vacanze Romane with actors Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn even if the theme of both works is...

Writing about love and relationships is not easy, but at the same time it is the most interesting topic hitting women of all ages and from all walks of life. For loving relationships are an integral...

"Bobby Kennedy: a Raging Spirit" (Simon & Schuster), by Chris Matthews How many books about the Kennedys are enough books about the Kennedys? If public response is any indication, we have yet...

Nikki Giovanni has a thing about words, even a single one — like "needed." "I'm not needed," the beloved poet, drinking coffee at a hotel lounge in midtown Manhattan, insisted during a...

One day, it must have been between 1999 and 2006, I was alone at home in Victory Street, Hamrun when someone knocked on the door. It was the famous composer Charles Camilleri, accompanied by a...

Ex-ambassador of France to Malta, author Daniel Rondeau, was recently honoured with the prestigious Grand Prix du Roman by the esteemed Académie française for his latest novel entitled...