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How Nora Ephron's comedies rebooted the rom-com

Thursday, 28 September 2017, 18:13 Last update: about 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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...

Education ‘is political’

Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 10:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

Kitbiet Paulo Freire Author: Ed. Carmel BorgPublisher: Horizons 2013Extent: 414pp  Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a...

'The Room of Fire' is a dark and violent book

Saturday, 16 September 2017, 12:07 Last update: about 10 years ago

Roland Ford is a private investigator who excels at finding missing people. He's also a former police officer, an Iraq war combat veteran and a widower who is tortured by the loss of his wife, who...

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