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Atkins delivers engrossing thriller 'The Fallen'

Tuesday, 1 August 2017, 15:28 Last update: about 10 years ago

Ace Atkins' novels about Quinn Colson, a former Army Ranger turned sheriff, takes place in Mississippi's rural Tibbehah County, where the largest town is the small Jericho. But Edgar finalist Atkins...

Sherman Holmes stays true to Holmes Bros. traditions

Monday, 31 July 2017, 16:55 Last update: about 10 years ago

"The Richmond Sessions" is the debut album by Sherman Holmes, but the 77-year-old singer and bassist is no neophyte. The Holmes Brothers were one of the all-time great American bands, alternating...

A thrilling epic in 'War for the Planet of the Apes'

Monday, 31 July 2017, 16:16 Last update: about 10 years ago

Apparently all the new Planet of the Apes films needed to do to really hit a home run was take the humans out of the equation. It's what this whole trilogy has been leading to, really, as we dipped...

A revealing look at a beloved, mysterious writer

Monday, 31 July 2017, 15:26 Last update: about 10 years ago

Nelle Harper Lee wrote a novel published in the early 1960s. Her next novel was published more than 50 years later. She had no use for email, Facebook and Twitter (which she considered as ways of...

Irrepressible under huge stress

Monday, 31 July 2017, 15:09 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

This is a translation by Jean Paul Borg of the book Sharon and My Mother-in-Law which won the Viareggio Prize in Italy and was translated in 20 languages. Mr Borg says he met the author at the...

Judging a book by its cover

Monday, 31 July 2017, 15:08 Last update: about 10 years ago

Although we are taught not to judge a book by its cover, sometimes we do exactly that at the Notarial Archives. While the content of a volume remains especially important to researchers, the beauty of...

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