No flight of fancy
Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 11:51
Last update: about 6 years ago
Review by Joseph Anthony Debono Dr Mark Sammut Sassi is a man of rare erudition. Flying at the fall of Dusk (FaFoD), his latest work, soars high on the wings of multiple disciplines, supported by...
Oliver Friggieri looks back at the past
Thursday, 5 August 2021, 11:41
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
In the mid-1960s, in those two-and-a-half years that Oliver Friggieri spent with us in the Major Seminary, we had a preponderance of people from Siggiewi with us. People like George Grima,...
Murder inside the prison
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 10:50
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
Belwyth, the location of the prison which is where the action of the book takes place, does not exist anywhere in the world, so one can only speculate that it takes place in Britain, the US or...
The history of the Dominicans in Vittoriosa
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 12:21
Last update: about 6 years ago
A book launch of Id-Dumnikani fil-Birgu (The Dominicans in Vittoriosa) was recently held at the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The book is authored by Anton Attard and published by the Vittoriosa Organising...
The adventures of a Maltese Fascist
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 12:19
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
I must declare at the outset that I fail to understand the author's reasons for giving this book such a title. I understand the reference, of course, to the Trojan horse but still can't understand why...
Removing the masks of life
Tuesday, 13 July 2021, 10:54
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
The way the author tells it, once her partner had to leave Gozo, where they live, for five days and while he was away she wrote this slim book from cover to cover. Writing this book brought out...
An introduction to meditation
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 10:36
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
In May 2019, the author, a Carmelite friar, was asked by his Order to hold a series of talks on Christian meditation in the Carmelite spirit. The book, Is-Sengha tat-Talb, which was so popular...
Wearing Daphne’s cloak
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 14:41
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
This book is a selection of blog posts published on Truth be Told (Manueldelia.com) from its beginning on 6 June 2017 to the first months of this year. In other words, with remarkable prescience,...
Santa Marija webinar success helps save skyline
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 14:25
Last update: about 6 years ago
A webinar led by celebrated author, journalist and historian Sir Max Hastings has raised more than €10,000 in aid of the Save the Valletta Skyline Appeal. The exclusive online event, which...
The right to good administration
Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 11:46
Last update: about 6 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
This self-published monograph by Dr Ivan Mifsud LL.D. Ph.D. is remarkable from many angles. To begin with, it seems it was first conceived as a report, and then written as a monograph. This is...