The Malta Independent 17 July 2026, Friday
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‘Il-forma tal-ilma’

Sunday, 13 February 2022, 09:30 Last update: about 5 years ago

Good whodunnit stories have always been very popular with us Maltese. We tend to devour the various detective and thriller novels, and many of us - let's be honest - are addicted to detective series...

The proof that St Paul really came to Malta

Sunday, 13 February 2022, 09:27 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

In 2010 Malta celebrated the 1,950th anniversary of St Paul's shipwreck on the shores of Malta. It was also the year of the visit by Pope Benedict XVI also celebrating the shipwreck...

Saving a husband jailed in Malta

Tuesday, 8 February 2022, 10:08 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

Malta 1575. Deep in the Grandmaster's prison in Valletta there languishes Isaac, who was caught and made a slave when an Order of Malta's vessel on a pirate raid captured the vessel with Isaac on...

'Last Cuentista,' 'Unspeakable' win children's book awards

Monday, 7 February 2022, 08:15 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Donna Barba Higuera's "The Last Cuentista," a post-apocalyptic tale of a young girl who must preserve the memory of Earth's history, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's best children's book....

Diary by DR AUSTIN SAMMUT: Lockdown but never a dull moment

Sunday, 6 February 2022, 09:08 Last update: about 5 years ago

Following in the footsteps of his journalist father, George Sammut,  he is very much involved with the media. He also lectures and is an examiner in the Faculty of Law, University of Malta. Dr...

Inspired by her mother, Isabel Allende publishes 'Violeta'

Friday, 4 February 2022, 12:12 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Shortly before the coronavirus pandemic began, Isabel Allende suffered one of the greatest losses of her life: The death of her mother.  On Tuesday, the Chilean author published "Violeta", a...

In kids' book, Sotomayor asks: Whom have you helped today?

Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 13:41 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

"Whom have I helped today?" That's the question Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells kids she asks herself every night before she goes to sleep. Her new children's book, "Just Help! How to...

The rise and fall of Benedict the Great

Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 13:03 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

This book tells only half the story, the first half. To complement it one has to read what led to Pope Benedict XVI's absolutely surprising resignation in 2013, especially in the book by Gianluigi...

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