"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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

"When I returned to Malta in 2017, the plan was to work as a full-time writer. I put my plan into action the following year and for a while the plan worked. I became my own boss, and I was a harsh...

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...

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....

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...