'Swingland' offers peek into kinky sex underworld
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 11:59
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
"Swingland: Between the Sheets of the Secretive, Sometimes Messy, but Always Adventurous Swinging Lifestyle" (Touchstone), by Daniel Stern Sexual healing comes in all forms. In...
Characters are well drawn in new Pelecanos novel
Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 11:58
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
"The Double" (Little, Brown and Co.), by George Pelecanos Spero Lucas joined the Marines, got shipped off to Iraq, fought house-to-house in Fallujah and came home in one piece to...
Budulienko
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 12:05
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Horizons has just published Budulienko, is a modern poetic remake of a classic Czech folk tale, told from generation to generation. The story – in Maltese and English - revolves around a little...
Book revisits tragic life of actor River Phoenix
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 11:57
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
"Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind" (It Books), by Gavin Edwards Everything in life seemed to come to actor River Phoenix before he was...
Book offers juicy peak inside Johnny Carson's life
Monday, 4 November 2013, 11:55
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
"Johnny Carson" (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by Henry Bushkin Hell hath no fury like a lawyer scorned. "You must never, ever repeat a word from last...
The legendary sword
Sunday, 3 November 2013, 14:40
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
The sword of La Valette, which has long created a controversy whether it should be sent back to Malta or not, was stolen from the Louvre, in France! The sword and accompanying poniard were given to...
Pope Francis biography expected next year
Saturday, 2 November 2013, 14:38
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
A leading Roman Catholic commentator and founder of a pro-Catholic media organization has landed a deal to write a "full-scale" biography of Pope Francis. Publisher Henry Holt...
Journals of Alice Walker coming in 2017
Friday, 1 November 2013, 14:36
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Along with writing novels, stories, poems and essays, Alice Walker has been keeping a diary. The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple" has a deal with Simon...
Europeana at the National Book Fest
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 17:14
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
Europeana, Europe’s digital museum, library, gallery and archive, together with its Maltese partner, AcrossLimits, invites the people of Malta to The National Book Fest from 12-16 November. We...
Jim Lehrer's JFK novel 'Top Down' lacks impact
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 14:34
Last update: about 11 years ago
Malta Independent
"Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination" (Random House), by Jim Lehrer "What if?" is a tried-and-true starting point for a novelist. In the case of "Top...