The China Cultural Centre in Malta in collaboration with the philanthropic website of Life Tree Books (www.lifetreebooks.org.cn) is publishing free access to 9 colourfully illustrated children's...

Blue-water empire Author: Robert HollandPublisher: Allen LanePages: 439pp Around 1815, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Lord Bathurst told his Cabinet colleagues that the...

The National Book Council is inviting established and emerging poets to participate in the second edition of the Doreen Micallef National Poetry contest. The contest was launched last year by the...

On the outbreak of war with revolutionary France in February 1793, Royal Navy warships in the Mediterranean were both depleted and dispersed. The key concern was how to bottle up the French fleet...

This will not be the normal book review as any that I have been writing on these pages. The reason is that in my opinion the book under review offers a novel point of view on Malta's history in the...

Fall out, the new thriller novel by Malta-based author M. N. (Mark) Grenside that has already received rave reviews, has now been launched in Malta. Described by award-winning producer Alan...

Lola Salines happily accepted the last-minute concert ticket from a friend the night of Nov. 13, 2015. At 28, the Parisian had already created her own brand at a prestigious French publishing house,...

Sixty years after her death, the story of Zora Neale Hurston is still not fully told.  The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in January 1960, so...

The presence of sand on the pages of a book would not appear to be an important find - except when the book is several hundred years old, and the sand was used to dry the ink used painstakingly by...

The National Book Council (NBC) is proud to announce the dates of the Malta Book Festival, which is going to be held between Wednesday, 11 and Sunday, 15 November at the Mediterranean Conference...