Lawrence Gatt’s new novel, ‘Il-Ġuramenttal-Ħatra’, is an intriguing story which makes pleasant reading for the summer. If you like suspense, intrigue and complex family...

The background of Charles Micallef St John – engaged in the civil service for many years – would not have led many to imagine he would be writing books, let alone...

"Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care" (Arcade Publishing), by Scott McGaugh   Here's what a real Washington scandal looks...

Malta University Press launched four new books on 1 July, at the Aula Magna, Valletta Campus.   The event was introduced by Prof. Henry Frendo, chairman of the Editorial Board of the...

"Mystery Girl" (Thomas & Mercer/New Harvest), by David Gordon   The main character in David Gordon's 2010 debut thriller, "The Serialist," was a novelist hired to...

"The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker's Journey" (Crown), by Lawrence Osborne   Looking to deal with a serious drinking problem, British novelist and travel writer Lawrence Osborne...

"My Education" (Viking) by Susan Choi   Our first glimpse of Regina Gottlieb is as a graduate student in her first days at a prestigious university. Somewhat naïve and more...

Elizabeth Morse, who made her fortune selling worthless herbal remedies to the gullible, is buying up huge parcels of timberland in Eastern Maine with the hope of persuading the federal government to...

"Environmental Debt" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Amy Larkin...

Orson Welles would enter the trendy Los Angeles restaurant Ma Maison through the kitchen, thus avoiding being seen arriving by wheelchair. His girth as wide as his talent, the director of 1941's...