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...

Camila Alves McConaughey has co-written a new children's book about a bunch of picky eaters. Only in this case, the picky eaters aren't the children. "Just Try One Bite" (Penguin Random House)...

This novel is author Sally Rooney's second novel, published after Conversations with Friends.  It is set in Dublin and Carricklea and in 2019 won the British Book Award for Book of the Year. It...

Readers across the world were recently alerted to the impressive talent of Maltese writers when The Sheriff's Catch, debut novel of prolific Maltese expat writer James Vella-Bardon, was named...

Even though the story is set in the 1930s, Aleks Farrugia's Camerata! is not a historical novel: the author is too liberal with historical accuracy, at least in this reviewer's opinion. So it's a...

On 1 May, I wrote, perhaps too late, a review of my friend Oliver Friggieri's autobiography, Fjuri li ma jinxfux. This novel, translated in English by Rose Marie Caruana, covers more or less the same...

First the immediate things you notice. The massive book that you can hardly hold. The quaint numbering of pages, decreasing rather than increasing, as we do in the West. Then you find out this is a...