France in the Maltese Collective Memory,Perceptions, Perspectives, Identities after Bonaparte in British Malta, Charles Xuereb, Malta University Press, 418 pp, 40c.     This...

Desperation brings six people to a decaying Victorian apartment house where the tenants' desolation pales in comparison with one neighbor's despicable acts. Alex Marwood's second stand-alone...

Pierre Assouline, journalist, writer, blogger, broadcaster, member of the Académie Goncourt and one of the formidable forces in contemporary French literature is coming to Malta for the...

  It's been a weak hurricane season in the Atlantic so far, with little to worry U.S. coastal residents, but any forecaster will tell you: It only takes one storm to make a bad year. In...

A father-and-son relationship, perhaps broken beyond repair, fuels Urban Waite's engrossing novel that skillfully exposes the complicated emotions that can stymie a once close family while also...

John Grisham has been writing legal thrillers and dramas that resonate with readers for almost 25 years, and his latest continues the theme of ordinary people who work in the law profession...

Kite Group's second edition of 'Malta's Break with Gaddafi, Recollections of a Premier' carries a foreword by His Excellency Jean Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission. In his...

Poet Mario Azzopardi keeps regenerating himself in a new anthology of poems and prose-poems published by Horizons.  PATRICIA GATT reviews the collection. In an age of luvvies and media hype...

"Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Peter Ackroyd In 1914, Keystone Studios released two short films that gave a world marching to war a reason to laugh. Their...

At the heart of this light, energetic tale of a group of wealthy eccentrics on holiday at a seaside resort in England emerges a story of a marriage. Yes, there's a juicy scandal, snobbish comments and...