"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...

"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...

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...

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...

Christmas comedy fans of Malta, 'welkim, welkim' - The Comedy Knights have released a book in the run-up to its upcoming 10th year anniversary show, The Comedy Knights: Ten Years of...

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...

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...

To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one of the best-selling books...

A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband that it's time for them to separate. For the moment, they intend to keep this agreement a secret from others. But then he goes missing in a...

Pierre u Jean is the Maltese translation from the French of Guy de Maupassant's (1850-1893), naturalist or psycho-realist novel, Pierre et Jean. This novel, published in 1888, the author's fourth...