10,000 new books are to be distributed among 100 classrooms in schools around Malta and Gozo. This, as part of the Enriching Classroom Libraries programme being organised by the National Literacy...

The story goes that while St Paul was on his way to Rome to face charges he was shipwrecked on Malta at St Paul’s Islands in St Paul’s Bay. The truth is that no hard evidence backs the...

Well, I am quite familiar with the Razzett L'Antik in Qormi as I have been there several times to various events. One dark winter's night I finished up in the dry moat opposite, to my utter amazement....

Shopping, romance, bucket lists, inspiration and information: All of these things and more can be found in books for travelers that are out this season in time for the holidays. In addition...

Katha Pollitt, the columnist for "The Nation," the feminist essayist, poet and critic, has been frustrating some on the left and angering some on the right for years now. But she's surprised at...

Author Val McDermid melds the political thriller with the police procedural for an intense novel that gives equal attention to each genre. McDermid pulls together a complicated tale of war and...

Brooke Shields, the iconic model-actress-Princeton grad, entered the literary scene in 2005 with her memoir about postpartum depression. This time, she sheds light on the relationship she shared with...

One of the most compelling characters in David Baldacci's thrillers is John Puller, a crackerjack investigator of military crimes. In "The Forgotten" and "Zero Day," readers learned that Puller has an...

2014 is the year in which both Dr Eddie Fenech Adami's autobiography Eddie - My journey and Archbishop Ġużeppi Mercieca's Memorji have been published, it is perhaps timely to consider the...

When the final novel in the Frank Bascombe trilogy was published in 2007, its author made it plain that a fourth book about the introspective sportswriter-turned-real estate broker wasn't even a...