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Il-Misteru tas-Sur Spir Spiteri

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 10:21 Last update: about 7 years ago

The story revolves around a well-to-do man, living on his own, in an old house. His only company is the maid, the nephew, the neighbour, the milkman and an old friend. One day, this man, Mr Spir...

The two faces of quarantine

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 10:20 Last update: about 7 years ago

The mostly read and talked about word across the world, during the past year-and-a-half, was and still is quarantine. The pandemic continues, alas, to perpetrate the same fears, to cause the same...

Fathers in anguish

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 10:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Apart from its very unusual title, this is a very strange book, at least on the formal side of things. With over 1,000 chapters, some of less than a page, and converging towards the centre, rather...

Musings and prayers

Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 09:18 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Fr Ray Francalanza is an Augustinian priest who has held various offices in his Order in Malta and who has generated a following of mainly young people inspired by his unconventional approach to...

Damascus

Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 09:36 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Nothing could be further from the St Paul of the altars dripping silver, the red damask, the milling canons and monsignors of our 10th February celebration than this very raw book. We have grown...

In defence of the Palestinians

Tuesday, 23 March 2021, 13:16 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Twelve years ago, the author was an up-and-coming journalist, who had already made a name for himself among the new Labour Party media with a string of books to his name, mainly on partisan...

A Libyan exile in Siena

Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 14:35 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

The author was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then Cairo. His father, Jaballa, was a vocal critic of Muammar Gaddafi and he was working in the...

Anger at neoliberalism

Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 10:49 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

The author was born in Malta but after a period of studying and teaching in Malta, has spent most of his adult life in Canada where he held various professorships in a number of universities...

Publication on rising sea-levels supported by APS Bank

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 12:33 Last update: about 7 years ago

APS Bank has proudly supported the "The Sinking Shore", the work of research on climate change and the impacts of sea-level rise by environmental scientist Dr Ivan X. Gatt. The book contains an...

The wreckage of deindustrialisation

Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 12:23 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

In 2018 Nicolas Mathieu won the Prix Goncourt, France's most famous literary honour, for this, his second novel. Starting in 1992, it unfolds at two-year intervals, over four summers in a valley...

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