What do you do when you're stuck in traffic? Fiddle with the car radio? Listen to the banter of DJs or ... study the driver of the car next to you until you get obsessed with her and end up following...

At 97 years of age, one would expect that the life of Albert Ganado has been a very fulfilling life. But after reading this autobiography of sorts one is filled with admiration that one person could...

The name is fictitious, a pseudonym. In an age of self-promotion, Elena Ferrante keeps her real identity a closely-guarded secret. In 2016, Time magazine included Ferrante among the 100 most...

The writer and composer Anthony Burgess came to live in Malta in 1968. He wrote many of his best books in his home at 168 Main Street in Lija, including the novels MF, Napoleon Symphony and...

On clear nights, when the moon has not risen yet, the sky fills up with so many stars, otherwise invisible when the moon appears. So too in the history of art in these islands, between the twin...

Sooner or later, it will have to happen. The conclave to choose a new pope. Novelists of all hues and colours have been trying to draw up a scenario for the next conclave for many years...

This publication is the first to delve in depth into the artistic and cultural achievements of different members of the Bellanti family. Michele Bellanti (1807-1883) was a major Maltese artist,...

Agenda Bookshop, one of Malta's leading book sellers, has recently launched www.agendabookshop.com for book worms and book lovers alike to indulge in. With prices that compare (and even beat!)...

On 4 March 1859, Archbishop of Malta Gaetano Pace Forno wrote to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and explained that the (British colonial) government wanted to restore Mattia Preti's paintings on...

The Chapel of Saint Catherine of the Langue of Italy This brilliantly illustrated coffee-table sized book has been published so many years ago and may well be out of print but it is a treasure...