The author was born in Ceylon, today Sri Lanka, in 1943 and immigrated to Montreal Canada when he was 19 years old. He is best known for his lyrical The English Patient (1992) which was turned...

Three psychotherapists from three different countries have come together to write this book, based on experiences and observations made in their own clinics. Dr Padraic Gibson, Dr Claudette Portelli...

Illustrated by Gattaldo and animated by Turi Animation Studio, the 2022 Malta Book Festival artwork brings to life Arnold, whose encounter with a book gives him a new perspective and persuade him to...

"Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable" by Zain E. Asher (Amistad) In recounting her family's struggle to carry on after her father's unexpected death, Zain E....

This is yet another collection of plays written by the author. The two plays date back to around the same time, the 1960s at the time of the mass emigration from Malta due to endemic poverty and the...

SKS Publishers will launch a new publication L-ANALETTI – KONFUĊJU a translation of the analects of Confucius directly from Chinese into Maltese, carried out by sinologist Salvatore...

The National Book Council (NBC) is pleased to announce that a record 49 exhibitors are participating in this edition of the Malta Book Festival, many of whom are also organising an array of...

Klima, a famous jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call in which he is told that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility clinic is pregnant and that she is saying that he is the...

"Time Is a Mother" by Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press) Life's aftermath ebbs and flows throughout Ocean Vuong's poetry collection "Time Is a Mother." An ode to his mother's passing, Vuong orbits the...

Review by Charles Briffa  A biographer is mainly concerned with the truth and therefore he has to go beyond the mere collection of facts because the subject of a biography is human...