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Churchill, Malta, and Gibraltar

Sunday, 7 November 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago

Author: Victor Aquilina Publisher: Kite Group, 2021Pages: 380pp Malta has the lives of many thousands of German and Italian soldiers on its conscience', Field Marshal Erwin Rommel wrote in late...

Giovanni Bonello: Bejn Storja u Miti

Thursday, 4 November 2021, 10:06 Last update: about 6 years ago

What was the divergence of views between Dr Giovanni Bonello and Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami about? Is it true that it was PL Leader Dr Alfred Sant who intervened? How did Giovanni Bonello...

Marathon man in brief

Sunday, 31 October 2021, 08:50 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Just like in each one of us, there is more than one side to the author. On the one hand, as testified by fellow resident of Siggiewi Dr Norbert Bugeja, the author is an experienced marathon...

A necessary publication for practitioners and students

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 11:18 Last update: about 6 years ago

Dr Robert Musumeci's Selected Principles of Maltese Planning Law, is the second literary work to be published locally, on the subject of Maltese development planning legislation. The first harks back...

Death, Alzheimer’s and gays

Friday, 22 October 2021, 09:05 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

This is the third book in the author's latest trilogy. Fortunately, as against the first two, there are no problematic political overtones. The main actor is still the same - retired police...

Things that happen to ‘normal’ family

Saturday, 16 October 2021, 12:23 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The book is set in vintage Alfred Massa territory - a plain lower middle class family living, from the details one gleans, in the southeast area of Malta. A perfectly normal family but one where the...

Libya’s attempted coup

Tuesday, 5 October 2021, 12:28 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

This book highlights, as I see it, the risks that novel writers face when they write about contemporary situations, which involve national and sensitive issues. It is true that the author, like...

Breaking taboos in Maltese Literature

Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 10:58 Last update: about 6 years ago

Perfettament Imperfetta, your new novel, has made waves in the past month since publication: lots of people seem to be reading it and recommending it by word of mouth. Why do you think that...

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