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The rehabilitation of a severely disturbed child

Monday, 10 February 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

This is a very disturbing and at the same time very uplifting book. I have no doubt the book is written by a foster-carer, Casey Watson from the UK who tells of her struggles as a foster-carer of...

Marie Kondo's doing what she can to make your kids tidy

Saturday, 8 February 2020, 10:08 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Not even Marie Kondo can follow all her rules for tidying all the time. "Of course, when things get very busy, I need to let go of some of my standards and methods, and I think that's a...

Lucy Ellmann's 'Ducks, Newburyport' is brilliant, addictive

Monday, 3 February 2020, 09:17 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Ducks, Newburyport," Biblioasis, by Lucy Ellmann When you mention to people that you're reading a nearly 1,000-page book that's mostly one sentence, the reaction is odd. Some people roll their...

Fine biography focuses on Brando's internal struggle

Friday, 31 January 2020, 09:26 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando," Harper, by William J. Mann Marlon Brando made no apologies for being an iconoclast and living and loving as he chose, even scorning the adulation that...

Award-giving ceremony for the National Book Prize 2019

Thursday, 30 January 2020, 21:04 Last update: about 8 years ago

The award-giving ceremony of the 2019 edition of the National Book Prize was held this evening at San Anton Palace under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Malta, H.E. George Vella. The...

Fans and newcomers alike will enjoy 'Twisted Twenty-Six'

Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 10:38 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Twisted Twenty-Six," Putnam, by Janet Evanovich Edna Mazur, Stephanie's eccentric grandmother, marries a gangster named Jimmy Rosolli, but becomes a widow less than an hour later when he keels...

Author makes readers care about boys about to become men

Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 15:11 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

"Nothing More Dangerous," Mulholland, by Allen Eskens Nothing is more dangerous, says one character quoting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., than "sheer ignorance." That danger can be extended to...

When the future becomes present

Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 11:17 Last update: about 8 years ago

The year 2020 is the date in which Merlin Publishers' 2011 Young Adult novel MagnaTM Mater is set. The themes of Loranne Vella's novel - climate change, social media, far-right extremism, online and...

A Book called Daring

Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 11:12 Last update: about 8 years ago Marika Azzopardi

Late last year, a new coffee table book hit the international literary market, one of three major interiors books published by the prestigious Vendome Press of London, during the year's last quarter....

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