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The darkest years of the crisis

Tuesday, 3 October 2017, 10:13 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

The first volume had chronicled Alfred Sant's writings, articles, speeches, etc. about the European crisis up till 2011. This volume contains Dr Sant's articles etc. from 2011 to 2015. Those were...

Castles and Rockets: a book for the Puttinu Cares Foundation

Tuesday, 3 October 2017, 10:07 Last update: about 9 years ago

Horizons has released a book in aid of the Puttinu Cares Foundation.  Authored by Nadia Bartolo, and illustrated by Daniela Cauchi and Anabel Armeni Cauchi, Castles and Rockets is a collection of...

Book world hopes for literary breakthrough in fall

Monday, 2 October 2017, 11:15 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

As the book world's most literary season approaches, the industry still awaits the year's big literary publication. While critics have celebrated Mohsin Hamid's "Exit West," George Saunders'...

'Tom Clancy made Jack Ryan,' author's widow says in lawsuit

Friday, 29 September 2017, 12:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Tom Clancy's widow wants a court to rule that the author's estate is the exclusive owner of the rights to his famous character Jack Ryan. News media outlets report that Alexandra Clancy's lawsuit...

How Nora Ephron's comedies rebooted the rom-com

Thursday, 28 September 2017, 18:13 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Did writer and director Nora Ephron really save the romantic comedy? Are the three movies detailed here - "When Harry Met Sally ...," ''Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail" - really...

Historical thriller takes readers back to turbulent era

Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 12:09 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

An engineer from Oslo attempts to disrupt the Nazi war machine at the height of World War II in "The Saboteur," the latest historical thriller by Andrew Gross. Kurt Nordstrum has lost his...

George Smiley returns in 'A Legacy of Spies'

Tuesday, 26 September 2017, 12:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

John Le Carre's newest novel, "A Legacy of Spies," brings back the man who is perhaps Le Carre's most famous of spies, George Smiley, though mostly in name and recollection. Smiley is missing in...

Chuck Klosterman's 10th book finds him in top form

Monday, 25 September 2017, 18:01 Last update: about 9 years ago

"Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century" (Blue Rider Press), by Chuck Klosterman A fifth of the century is almost over, and Chuck Klosterman...

Reading in harmony

Wednesday, 20 September 2017, 10:25 Last update: about 9 years ago

Summer is almost over and everyone is ready for the beginning of the next scholastic year. Southern Comfort, within Sagra Familja and which is located Fuq San Pawl in Cospicua, is an organisation...

Ġanni jżur Londra

Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 10:23 Last update: about 9 years ago

Living on a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean certainly has its advantages - sun, beaches and lovely summers. However, sometimes, because we're surrounded by sea, it's easy to forget...

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