"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...

The door knocker is a staple feature of the old houses in Malta, especially in rural areas, although some, or many of them today, have electric bells. The knockers, however, are kept on, not just...

Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, has never been so busy. "A year ago, we might have been receiving one, maybe two reports a...

"The King's Shadow" by Edmund Richardson (St. Martin's Press) Charles Masson isn't a household name, even for many avid readers of history, but it's easy to wonder why that's the case after...