“Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale,” Bloomsbury, by Adam Minter Americans are an acquisitive people and their craving for ever more stuff ripples around the world, not...

If you are one of those who is viewing these days of quarantine an opportunity for you and your family to read more, read the following about the winning books of the National Book Prize...

This hefty and well-researched book is a welcome addition to Melitensia. It is a description of the many monuments in our squares and streets, in our churches and band clubs - that is in many...

Further to my recent critique (TMI, 26 February) of Patrick Formosa's historical compilation of his native village of Għarb, I errantly and by sheer lapsus mentis, in my eagerness to render a...

The new syllabus for Maltese at Advanced level includes 20 poems by Oliver Friggieri contained in his anthology Mal-fanal hemm ħarstek tixgħel. Accordingly, Merlin Publishers' bestselling...

"Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 103 of his closest friends," Henry Holt and Co., by Ash Carter and Sam Kashner The subtitle of "Life isn't everything," a captivating oral...

Imagine carefully testing several thousand recipes for a beloved cookbook. Then imagine coming up with 600 brand new ones. Now imagine doing all that in your home kitchen. Without a...

Applications for the 2020 edition of National Book Prize and for the Terramaxka Prize - the National Book Prize for children and adolescents - are now open. As always, the call for applications...

SKS Publishers will pay tribute to Alfred Sant’s literary gems during the Campus Book Festival 2020.  Sant’s literary works published by SKS La Bidu, La Tmiem 1599, Ġorġ...

Author Elizabeth Strout, whose "Olive, Again" is Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick, has a pretty good idea about how the plainspoken Olive Kitteridge would have responded. "Olive would say,...