Malta famously has a couple of books set in and around Paceville, but these were written one or two decades ago. Most of the more recent young adult Maltese fiction, incuding Ivan Buġeja’s...

Merlin Publishers breaks new ground with Simon Bartolo’s Deformity, its first home-grown English language fiction title. Perched on the edge of the next leap in human evolution, 15-year-old...

Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens is well known in the United Kingdom for his conservative views and blunt, no nonsense approach when discussing his beliefs, which tend to go against mainstream...

Merlin books presents another gem from multi-award winning author Clare Azzopardi.   It’s perhaps the defining prank of the Facebook generation. When a Facebook friend not usually...

Professor Oliver Friggieri was recently decorated with the Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana award in a ceremony held at the Italian Institute of Culture, Valletta. He received the award from...

Mario Azzopardi’s latest collection of poetry and prose-poems reminds us why we read his work.  He does not demand linear readers who rush headlong into the text; in fact the manner in...

The launch of a new book entitled From Colonialism to Mintoffianism: Malta’s transition from a British base to a commercial economy will take place on Thursday 6 December at the Workers’...

Five Star Printing and Design Ltd. Qormi   2012.  pp 180.  €9       Żiemel tal-Gwerra is an absorbing novel translated into Maltese by the well-known...

    "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965" (Little, Brown and Co.), by William Manchester and Paul Reid   The long-awaited...

"Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds" (Crown), by Jim Sterba   The usual hot-button issues such as taxes and zoning are...