Girls are finally getting a bigger role in Thomas the Tank Engine's boy-dominated world. Mattel, the toy maker that owns the Thomas brand, will add two female main characters to the "Thomas &...

George Will's next book takes a long view on the conservative movement and the "intellectual vandalism" he believes threatens it now. The best-selling author and syndicated columnist has a deal...

In many ways, Kim Phuc has never left Route 1 in Vietnam, the highway where Associated Press photographer Nick Ut captured her running on June 8, 1972. It's one of the most enduring images of the...

This Malta Book Festival 2017 opens on Wednesday, 8 November with a conference on 'Truth in Fiction and Non-Fiction' at Sir Temi Zammit Hall, MCC, Valletta, starting 19:00 hours. Both the participants...

There's an ongoing discussion among music writers, musicians and music fans about how female artists are treated compared with their male counterparts. Some common examples include referring to a...

SKS Publishers expressed their satisfaction that two of its books published during 2016 have been shortlisted by the adjudication board of the 2017 edition of the National Book Prize. WESTERN: bejn...

Yosanne Vella will launch her publication Women in 18th Century Malta (SKS Publishers) at the Ġgantija Temples, Xagħra Gozo on Friday 3 November at 3pm with a public lecture on on the...

Filmmaker and cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, whose credits range from "Misery" to "Men in Black," has a book deal. Hachette Books told The Associated Press on Thursday that it has acquired...

A New Jersey detective finds himself still haunted by events that occurred 15 years earlier in Harlan Coben's latest thriller, "Don't Let Go." Napoleon "Nap" Dumas spends his time working for the...

For his thirty-fifth novel, Robin Cook chose a subject scarier than a viral outbreak or comas or bioterrorism: doctors. "Charlatans" centers on the life of Noah Rothauser, the super chief...