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Salvatore Giuffrè in Malta for Confucius book launch

Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 14:15 Last update: about 5 years ago

Sinologist Salvatore Giuffrè will participate in the official launching of L-ANALETTI – KONFUĊJU, which he translated directly from Classical Chinese into...

A small history of the German defeat in WW2

Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 13:19 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

Heinrich Theodor Boll is considered as one of Germany's foremost post World War 2 writers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. He was born in Cologne in what was still part of...

AC/DC's Brian Johnson writes about his Cinderella lives

Thursday, 29 December 2022, 11:21 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Before he began tearing the roof off arenas as lead singer of hard rock icon AC/DC, Brian Johnson was fixing roofs. In his new memoir, the "Hells Bells" singer recounts how he went from being a...

WWII novel sets high bar for historical fiction

Tuesday, 27 December 2022, 14:23 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

"Cradles of the Reich" by Jennifer Coburn (Sourcebooks Landmark) Gundi, Irma and Hilde all find themselves at a Lebensborn Society house for future mothers who are deemed to be racially fit. Each...

History of movie academy favors facts over melodrama

Monday, 19 December 2022, 06:21 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

"The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" by Bruce Davis (Brandeis University Press) Film historians and others digging for a...

Italians and Brits fight it out in Malta

Sunday, 18 December 2022, 11:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

I approached this book with some scepticism but soon found myself engrossed in the story, to the point that I lost count of the time (and even missed a couple of appointments). For us all, the...

Cookbook looks back at dynamic Popeyes founder and his food

Sunday, 18 December 2022, 06:26 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Louisiana is known for delivering food with big, bold flavor. The same can be said for the founder of the Popeyes fried chicken empire, who put spicy chicken, red beans and dirty rice on the national...

Anthony Bourdain biography is a profile of a man spiralling

Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 09:19 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Biographers try as best they can to walk in the shoes of their subjects. Charles Leerhsen took it a step further: He slept in the same French hotel room where Anthony Bourdain killed himself, earning...

‘Dun Carlo Manché, Fi Kliem Niesu’

Monday, 12 December 2022, 17:12 Last update: about 5 years ago

On Wednesday 14 December at 6:45pm the Gżira Parish Church will be the venue of a book launch of "Dun Carlo Manché, Fi Kliem Niesu". This book gives an account of the life and times of the...

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