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Brian Cox hopes memoir doesn't put 'full stop' on his life

Thursday, 10 March 2022, 07:09 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Finishing a book is usually cause for celebration. Not for actor Brian Cox. The book in question, "Putting the Rabbit in the Hat," out now, chronicles the actor's journey from humble beginnings...

Kampus Kotba 2022

Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 10:19 Last update: about 5 years ago

The National Book Council (NBC) is pleased to release the events' programme of Kampus Kotba - the 2022 Campus Book Festival, taking place between Wednesday 23 and Friday 25 March at the University of...

Tragedy hits Where’s Everybody clone

Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 10:04 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

I remember I had read the original in Maltese some years ago and maybe even reviewed it. This is now a translation in English and the fact that no name of the translator is included makes me think...

Two plays by an award-winning author

Sunday, 27 February 2022, 10:02 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

The author has given the Maltese public a series of drama and radio plays over the years many of which went on to collect awards. He is also the author of a number of books on the history of...

Diary by FRANCESCO GRECH: A young writer philosophises

Sunday, 27 February 2022, 07:00 Last update: about 5 years ago

"I think we tend to focus a lot on the negative of the pandemic, not because we want to, but because it was an experience that brought with it change in almost every aspect of our lives, and change is...

'Yinka, Where is Your Huzband' funny and big-hearted

Saturday, 26 February 2022, 08:26 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

"Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband" by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Pamela Dorman Books) Yinka Oladeji is a 30-year-old, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a good job, living in London who...

The exhibitors at the 2022 Campus Book Festival

Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 11:37 Last update: about 5 years ago

Kampus Kotba - the 2022 Campus Book Festival, taking place between Wednesday 23 and Friday 25 March - will be hosting a record number of established publishers and booksellers for its ninth edition....

A working interlude in Malta

Sunday, 20 February 2022, 10:05 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

Francesco Buonamici arrived in Malta on 1 September 1635 together with Pietro Paolo Floriani, sent here by Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII, to help Grand Master Antoine de...

Book aims to shine light on Romanian role in the Holocaust

Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 10:55 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Maksim Goldenshteyn recounts a story his grandmother once told him about how, as a 4-year-old child, she snuck out of a Jewish ghetto during World War II to retrieve her favorite dolls that had been...

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