"All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson" (Harper), by Mark Griffin Had Rock Hudson not died of AIDS in 1985, he might be best remembered as the most successful of the postwar male...

"Pandemic" (Putnam), by Robin Cook When there's a scientific breakthrough, Robin Cook doesn't just stand up and cheer. He uses his fertile imagination and writes a novel about its possible...

The average American reads 12 or 13 books a year, but with over 3 million books in print, the choices they face are staggering. Despite the introduction of 100,000 new titles each year, only a...

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...