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Review: The great story of a small nation

Tuesday, 9 January 2018, 09:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

Author: Godwin VellaPhotography and design: Daniel CiliaPublisher Heritage Malta 2014Extent: 144pp 2014 was the year of anniversaries - the 50th anniversary of Independence, the 40th anniversary...

Author Weir takes readers to the moon in 'Artemis'

Monday, 8 January 2018, 14:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

"Artemis" (Crown), by Andy Weir Andy Weir, author of "The Martian," takes readers to another desolate world, but instead of the Red Planet it's the moon, in his new novel, "Artemis." Weir...

'Wayne and Ford' ponders movie-bred masculinity

Sunday, 7 January 2018, 14:31 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

"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...

Newly discovered Chandler story chastises medical industry

Saturday, 6 January 2018, 14:29 Last update: about 10 years ago

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' has precise prose, suspenseful plot

Friday, 5 January 2018, 14:27 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

"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...

Andrew Lloyd Webber is ready to write his own story

Thursday, 4 January 2018, 14:24 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

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...

That’s life

Thursday, 4 January 2018, 09:25 Last update: about 10 years ago

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...

The challenges of finding love: what women want

Thursday, 4 January 2018, 09:19 Last update: about 10 years ago

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...

Chris Matthews paints loving portrait of RFK in new book

Wednesday, 3 January 2018, 14:34 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

"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...

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