Among the international guests at the 2020 virtual edition of the Malta Book Festival, the National Book Council has invited Eran Katz, professional speaker, bestselling author and brain enthusiast....

History is the future in reverse. We look into our past to recognise our present in its eventual future. Though we’d like to see inevitability and predictability in our past, no present, then as...

You had burst onto the Maltese children's literature scene with Sqaq l-Infern and its sequels in the Il-Fiddien trilogy, co-authored with Loranne Vella. Thirteen years later, what are your memories of...

Author: Julian SammutPublisher: The Kite Group / 2016Pages: 416pp   The first generation This is one heavy book - big as a coffee-table volume with glossy pages, lots of pictures...

Mużajċi tat-tafal (Clay mosaics) is another publication of short stories by Gozitan writer Joe Camilleri. The 323-page book, another prestigious production by Horizons, contains 16 stories...

Therese Pace It is common belief that the local reading community tends to favour prose to poetry. The reasons may be various: we all know everyone likes stories. They intrigue us, bringing to...

Noel Buttigieg During a recent excavation in Moscow, archaeologists unearthed a button with a Maltese Cross engraved on it. Judged as a rare find, such buttons constituted part of a uniform worn...

What do you expect of a family that carries the surname "Frattarija" (chaos, noise)? Do you really expect it to be a composed, quiet family? First and foremost, there's the make-up of the family....

This slim book, which includes poems written by the author between 2017 and this year, marks a departure, as I see it, from the deeply turbulent past of Ossessjoni (2013), which was echoed in the book...

A group of four friends, two males and two young women, who work in the same company, decide to go on holiday together. But they underestimated the destructive power of jealousy. It only required...