For 'Joy of Cooking' revision, editors mixed marriage, food
Monday, 9 March 2020, 10:56
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
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...
National Book Prize and Terramaxka Prize – applications are open
Friday, 6 March 2020, 09:13
Last update: about 8 years ago
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...
Tribute to Alfred Sant's literary gems
Thursday, 5 March 2020, 07:58
Last update: about 8 years ago
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...
Winfrey picks 'Olive, Again' for her next book club read
Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 10:08
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
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,...
Reflections on writing about the lives of Beckett, Beauvoir
Monday, 2 March 2020, 09:57
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
"Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir," Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, by Deirdre Bair Deirdre Bair has spent her life writing well-received biographies of some of the...
The Art of Protest at the 2020 Campus Book Festival
Sunday, 1 March 2020, 11:40
Last update: about 8 years ago
Drawing on the recent contributions from local artists and writers, the 2020 Campus Book Festival is dedicating an evening to literature and music of protest. The National Book Council has invited a...
Clive Cussler, million-selling adventure writer, dies at 88
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 07:44
Last update: about 8 years ago
Associated Press
Clive Cussler, the million-selling adventure writer and real-life thrill-seeker who wove personal details and spectacular fantasies into his page-turning novels about underwater explorer Dirk Pitt,...
The victim of an honour killing
Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 15:36
Last update: about 8 years ago
Noel Grima
Wikipedia says: "An honour killing or shame killing is the murder of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonour upon the family or has...
Gozo’s Għarb Village
Wednesday, 26 February 2020, 15:35
Last update: about 8 years ago
Patrick Formosa's pride and joy! The meticulosity with which the author has treated his pet subject, his birthplace no less, deserves one's utmost admiration. For the author's passionate descriptions...