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'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...

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