"Me Before You" (Pamela Dorman Books), by Jojo Moyes   There are books that you cannot put down. There are also books where you become so invested in the characters, you force...

"Extinction" (Thomas Dunne Books), by Mark Alpert   A Chinese experiment involving the use of political prisoners and a supercomputer goes horribly wrong in Mark Alpert's...

"Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History Making Race Around the World" (Ballantine Books), by Matthew Goodman   Americans have always loved a good race. From...

"Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Lawrence Wright   Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright's new book about Scientology,...

The English edition of the best seller ‘StradaStretta It-Triq li darba Xegħlet il-Belt’ has just been published.  This translation by George Cini, who also wrote the original Maltese...

Remarkable coincidences feature prominently in this slim volume of short stories and essays by established Maltese author, Lillian Sciberras, also well known for her published verse.  These...

On Easter Monday, 1 April 1532, the Paschal Candle, left alight after the Easter celebrations in St Lawrence Church, Vittoriosa, caused a fire which gutted parts of the church.   The church...

"The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century" (Riverhead), by Margaret Talbot   Part biography and part Hollywood history with a side of Americana,...

"Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division" (It Books), by Peter Hook   Joy Division played only three years' worth of gigs and released a whopping total of two studio...

"Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction" (Random House), by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd   Writing about writing is riddled with pitfalls. Take that sentence, even: Should we...