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The official history of the Malta Armed Forces published

Thursday, 12 May 2022, 09:09 Last update: about 5 years ago

To mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Armed Forces of Malta, Midsea Books together with an editorial team from the Armed Forces of Malta, published a book called Malta's Armed...

Fathers and lover

Tuesday, 10 May 2022, 09:21 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

Maybe he's not acknowledged as the national novelist of Turkey because of his frequent clashes with the Erdogan regime but he is certainly the most read, not just in Turkey, but also across the...

From a boy in Balzunetta to a professor

Sunday, 1 May 2022, 10:53 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

I suppose that in a way most books of this type resemble each other - in that they stop some years before the death of their authors. There are no autobiographies leading up to the death of the...

New book in Maltese on Carlo Acutis for children

Friday, 29 April 2022, 10:58 Last update: about 5 years ago

The beatification of Carlo Acutis in Assisi two years ago caught the attention of the world; it is not common to have a young adolescent dying from leukaemia to attract such a great amount of...

‘Mibdul’ issue #1

Friday, 29 April 2022, 10:55 Last update: about 5 years ago

Comics have been sorely lacking from the Maltese literary landscape. There were the occasional self-published titles and a wave of religious releases way back in the 80s, but other than that...

They all wrote about Malta

Friday, 29 April 2022, 10:53 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

In the locality of Birguma, part of Naxxar, the committee that gives names to streets decided, some years back, to give most of the streets in this locality names of persons that the residents would...

Bob Dylan book on 'Modern Song' to come out in November

Friday, 29 April 2022, 10:17 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Bob Dylan has a new book coming out this fall, a collection of more than 60 essays about songs and songwriters he admires, from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello. The new book, "The Philosophy of...

The Knights as seen by their detractor

Friday, 22 April 2022, 11:37 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

In or around September 1790 the two volumes of this book appeared in France. Written by a mysterious "Carasi" the book describes the adventures of the author during his two years of service in the...

Battles over book bans reflect conflicts from the 1980s

Friday, 22 April 2022, 09:50 Last update: about 5 years ago The Conversation

A conservative leader found fault with how "respect for our nation's heritage" had been mostly stripped from the textbooks of public schools. "From kindergarten right through the total school...

Flies, insects and decaying families

Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 11:34 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

This is the 14th book by this prolific author (including three novels for young people, two for adults, seven collections of short stories, two collections of poems) and this one adds to the...

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