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...

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...