Whenever I meet Dr Tonio Borg he never greets me with a 'hello' but with the words, "Have you heard the latest?" Barely waiting for my response, he dives into a series of funny anecdotes and jokes. Do...

"Rediscovering Travel: A Guide for the Globally Curious" (Liveright), by Seth Kugel Love travel? Love books? Love books about travel? If the preceding statements are true, do pick up a copy...

"Hearts of the Missing" (Minotaur), by Carol Potenza Nicky Matthews, a Pueblo, New Mexico, police sergeant assigned as liaison to the Tsiba'ashi D'yini reservation's police department, has a few...

Longtime New Yorker magazine cartoonist and Vermont resident Edward Koren has released a new book of cartoons spanning about 40 years that poke fun at country and city dwellers and the interactions...

"The Patch" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by John McPhee Eighty-seven and 33. That's the age of John McPhee and the number of books he's written, counting his latest, "The Patch." One could...

2019 kicked off brightly for Maltese novelist James Vella-Bardon, when his stirring debut 'The Sheriff's Catch' won the respected eBook Cover Design Award on Wednesday 9 January. This monthly award is...

This is, one might say, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici's political autobiography from his beginnings as the son of Il-Gross to his first political experiences in the 1960s, to the years in Opposition, then for...

Merlin Publishers has just published your third novel, Amina. Who is Amina?  Amina is a 15-year-old orphan who lives in a children's home. She has a passion for mathematics and has just...

"Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood" (Custom House), by Karina Longworth Hollywood history for the #MeToo movement, Karina Longworth's "Seduction" is an astute and...

"Broken Ground" (Atlantic Monthly Press), by Val McDermid The past is always in the present for Edinburgh Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie, making her fifth appearance in Val McDermid's...