St George is one of the most revered saints in the Maltese islands, and the legend of St George slaying the dragon has been recounted to generation after generation. Yet, to date there was no local...

Picture books are great fun in themselves, but when they also help to encourage children towards a practical skill, then the book becomes twice as desirable. And which parent of young children hasn't...

At the dawn of the 20th century the Parisian district of Montmartre was still largely rural, a hillside village dotted with windmills, vineyards and tumbledown shacks. There, a ragtag band of...

  Chucky Taylor's 2008 trial in Miami federal court was a sort of homecoming for a young man whose adolescence in Florida had been like so many others bored with the suburbs and longing for...

David Baldacci has written another thriller that will have readers engaged from the first page. Amos Decker, a stellar athlete who made it to the NFL, experienced a helmet-to-helmet collision on...

The compelling "Pleasantville" continues Attica Locke's insightful look at African-American life in Houston, where politics, race and classism converge in myriad ways. Locke sets her third novel...

Even its opening lines are provocative: "Whom to marry, and when it will happen - these two questions define every woman's existence, regardless of where she was raised or what religion she does or...

Marie Benoît   It  seems to me that as we get older we become nostalgic for the past but especially for people we have known and loved; people who have shaped us....

Patricia Salomone My pizza & toffee apples in the 1950s Self-published 2014 69pp   Superficially, this book (or booklet) tells the story of a child born as part...

Here's an easy one: North Korea's Kim Jong Il orders a famous South Korean film director and his actress wife kidnapped and brought into the country to remake a tepid film industry with dreams of...