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Review: Silent star Buster Keaton rides again in 2 new books

Friday, 28 January 2022, 08:15 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

"Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the 20th Century" by Dana Stevens (Atria; on sale now); and "Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life" by James Curtis (Knopf; Feb....

Diary by Joan Abela: Saving our Archives: the woman behind it

Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 08:49 Last update: about 5 years ago

"We are now two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, and uncertainties around its duration and longer-term impacts remain extremely high. A normal working day, a lunch with friends, a hug and a kiss...

Author Kwame Alexander to launch new trilogy this autumn

Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 08:23 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

A trilogy by award-winning children's author Kwame Alexander that tells the saga of an African family begins this fall with "The Door of No Return."  The book will be published Sept. 27, Little...

Strangers I’ll Never Forget

Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 11:12 Last update: about 5 years ago

Author: MJ CamilleriPublisher: Ede Books, Malta, 2021Pages: 236pp Elements of the short story include the action, setting, characters and point of view. All are detailed in MJ Camilleri's debut...

Another page-turner for children

Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 11:10 Last update: about 5 years ago

The Bonnici family has been expropriated. Difficult word that! It basically means that the government would have decided to buy your house to demolish it, in order to built a road right through it for...

Life in tandem – Keeping pace with grace

Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 09:58 Last update: about 5 years ago

Review by Paul Chetcuti sj Reading Fr Edward's book was for me like being enchanted by a traditional Maltese festa fireworks display. Myriad explosions of deep insights, revealing anecdotes,...

Fra Mudest, the jolly friar and his antics

Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 09:54 Last update: about 5 years ago

The most popular friar in Maltese literature has done it again. He cannot seem to make one move without getting into some sort of trouble! Fra Mudest u r-Rixa tells of another adventure of this...

A day in the life of a family at a crossroads in 1971

Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 09:53 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

The author is a well known American novelist and essayist. He was born in Illinois, the son of an immigrant from Sweden and a mother from Eastern Europe. His 2001 novel, The Corrections, a...

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