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...

Margaret Drabble (full name Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd) is one of the foremost English writers of novels who has charted the skilfully modulated variations on the theme of a girl's...

Like other female writers who were brought up in a (probably single sex) Catholic school (another writer who comes to mind is Karen Armstrong who had also been a nun) Marina Warner was brought up in a...

One of the most impressive traits of the Maltese national psyche is that during times of wars, pandemics and other trials and tribulations, the Maltese people rose to the occasion demonstrating...

In 2019, famous Italian writer Roberto Saviano spoke and wrote many times about Malta and its connections with organised crime. He was speaking and writing in the aftermath of the murder of...

This is a dense, highly interesting and entertaining book about a period that we know so little about, that we call it the Dark Ages, roughly from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the beginning of...

Paul P. Borg is today one of the most prolific authors in Maltese, with a string of novels making him one of the most-read authors. From writing about Selmun, an area he knows well, to other...

Margaret Atwood is of course the well-known Canadian author of, among others, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Blind Assassin (2000). She wrote this book in 2008 when the world was battling the...