Mustering the labour force
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 14:24
Last update: about 10 years ago
Though on the European continent and in the United States what today is known as the workers' movement was a direct result of the industrial revolution of the 19th century, in Malta this was not so....
'The Burial Hour' by Jeffery Deaver keeps readers guessing
Saturday, 13 May 2017, 14:19
Last update: about 10 years ago
The latest in Jeffery Deaver's series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, throws them both literally into foreign territory. A 9-year-old girl witnesses a...
Small town must face hard past in Watts' debut novel
Friday, 12 May 2017, 14:14
Last update: about 10 years ago
It's been 17 years since JJ Ferguson left his hometown of Pinewood, North Carolina. Now that he's returned (with a Gatsbyesque plan to build his dream home atop Brushy Mountain and reunite with his...
'Roanoke Girls' is storytelling at its finest
Thursday, 11 May 2017, 14:13
Last update: about 10 years ago
Best known for her young adult novels, Amy Engel makes a strong foray into adult fiction with a gripping tale about the power and corrosiveness within families weighed down by the past. "The Roanoke...
Food is the true main course in 'Feast of Sorrow'
Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 14:12
Last update: about 10 years ago
If true gastronomy resides at the intersection of food, art and culture, then Crystal King's debut novel can only be described as a gastronomical delight. Like much of the best in historical...
Fact to fiction: Boris Johnson's father pens Brexit thriller
Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 14:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
In the thriller "Kompromat," a political earthquake is shaking Britain and the European Union, a populist tide is sweeping the West and a resurgent Russia is pulling invisible strings around the...
Wife of a swindler pays the price in 'Widow of Wall Street'
Monday, 8 May 2017, 15:23
Last update: about 11 years ago
How could she? How could the wife of a Wall Street swindler, a Bernie Madoff type, not walk out the door at first word that her husband has cheated their family, friends and hundreds of others out of...
'Refugees' is timely, timeless in telling of human stories
Saturday, 6 May 2017, 15:23
Last update: about 11 years ago
Viet Thanh Nguyen's new book, "The Refugees," is both timely, given the current debate about refugees in America, and timeless in its exploration of universal human struggles. This gorgeous...
Ohio governor, ex-GOP presidential candidate, publishes book
Friday, 5 May 2017, 15:22
Last update: about 11 years ago
The book, released Tuesday by Thomas Dunne Books, is roughly equal parts campaign-trail memoir, political biography and Kasich's own self-help therapy session for living in a post-Donald Trump...
Feast for the soul: Jim Harrison on wine and food
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 15:21
Last update: about 11 years ago
In 2004, Jim Harrison wrote an article for The New Yorker about a 37-course lunch he ate in France "that likely cost as much as a new Volvo station wagon." Fully expecting to be criticized, he offered...