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The Arrogance of Power: The Blue Sisters saga

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 09:18 Last update: about 5 years ago

Book review by Kevin Aquilina Tonio Borg's 10th book, all 10 books being written in a space of eight years, deals with landmark court proceedings and connected events that happened thereafter...

A deep and meaningful analysis of the system and the outcome

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 09:16 Last update: about 5 years ago

Book review by Ivan Mifsud This second edition of what is undoubtedly Malta's leading literary work on the electoral system, merits considerable praise for a number of reasons. For starters,...

Bob Odenkirk sketches a showbiz life in memoir

Thursday, 12 May 2022, 09:52 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

"Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir" by Bob Odenkirk (Random House): Perseverance with a heavy dose of luck has propelled Bob Odenkirk's ascent from fringe sketch comic (HBO's "Mr. Show") to...

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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...

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