Books
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Malta’s magnificent century
Keith Sciberras:From Caravaggio toMattia Preti. Baroque Painting in Malta.Midsea Books, Malta, 2015.192 pp The 17th century was to see Malta experience its most glorious period in painting. Not only did it attract two great masters (one of them a...
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Now I am one of them, too
John A. Bonello:Jien, Wieħed MinnhomMerlin Publishers, 2015. Some books have the ability to suddenly make you look at a genre in a different way. Jien, Wieħed Minnhom by John A. Bonello, throws us deep into the action of an episode that started in...
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Adventure and works of art in story format
Is it possible for books, art and museums to be instantly appealing to children? Roberta Bajada’s children’s novel, Arloġġ u Tila, aims to do just that with a fun combination of classic paintings, museums with vanishing acts and a gripping mystery...
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A micro-history of the common folk
Paul CataniaThe People of the North 1546-1610.Midsea Books, 2015246 pp This is the 24th book in the excellent series Maltese Social Studies published by Midsea Books, another gem to read and enjoy. In this book, Paul Catania, an established...
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Qrempuċu f’Belt il-Ġobon third edition published
The tale of Qrempuċu, the little mouse who sets off on an adventure-packed journey in search of Cheese Town, has been republished and the book is now on sale in all leading bookshops. Qrempuċu f’Belt il-Ġobon (Qrempuċu goes to Cheese Town), penned...
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Kids get political at Hillary book launch
Elementary school students offer their views on the US presidential election as several new children's books about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton hit store shelves. Vanessa Johnston reports.
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Don Quixote in Maltese to mark the death of Cervantes
A Maltese translation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote in poetic form will be published on April 13 – the 400th anniversary of the author’s death. The literary masterpiece translated into Maltese, penned in the early 1980s by Pawlu Montebello...
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Top scientists to probe death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
An international team of genomics experts and forensic specialists will study the remains of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda to try to solve the cause of his death. The communist poet died in the chaos following Chile's 1973 military coup...
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Italy bids farewell to Umberto Eco
Funeral services are held for best-selling Italian author Umberto Eco who wrote "The Name of the Rose". Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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Author Harper Lee dead at 89
Harper Lee, author of the literary classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died at the age of 89. The book, about a child's view of right and wrong in 930s Alabama, won Lee a Pulitzer Prize and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. For decades it was...
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Church defends sending 'prayers' tweet to author Richard Dawkins
The Church of England has defended sending "prayers" on Twitter to The God Delusion author Richard Dawkins following his stroke. The outspoken academic, 74, fell ill on February 5, forcing him to cancel a tour of Australia and New Zealand. Now...
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A question of language
Rigu Bovingdon: Laurent Ropà.Horizons Publications, 2015. This text by Rigu Bovingdon provides the reader who is unaware of the existence of the Franco-Malto-Gozitan personality, Laurent Ropà, with the basic biographical and literary information...
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Interest groups, small states and the EU
Mario Thomas VassalloThe Europeanization of Interest Groups in Malta and Ireland: A Small State Perspective.Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 300 pp In Malta, the 2015 referendum on spring hunting was preceded by a vigorous campaign led by a coalition of...
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The Gut, from a different perspective
George Cini: Strada Stretta – Aktar dawl fuq it-triq li darba xegħlet il-Belt.Self-published, 2015. 276 pp My parents never quite resigned themselves to the fact that Strada Stretta was just round the corner from where we lived. When I was 10, I...
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New Harry Potter book to be released in July
A new Harry Potter book will be released nine years after JK Rowling's final story, The Deathly Hallows. Rowling's website Pottermore confirmed that the script of the new stage play Harry Potter And The Cursed Child will be released as a book on...
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Living and working in the Holy Land
Clare Azzopardi, Gilbert Calleja, Nathalie Grima:il-Maltin fl-Art Imqaddsa u lil HinnMerlin Publishers, 2015. This is a handsome and somewhat heavy, volume in a large format. It consists of several short chapters in which Maltese, mainly...
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The twilight sad
Alfred Massa: Fl-GħabexA Collection of poems: 1996 -2006.S Dom Communications Ltd, 2015. 111 pp. Lately, Alfred Massa has been very busy churning out a number of highly-appealing novels in Maltese. This is something he has been doing for years,...
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New book about Italian anti-fascists
There were thousands of people who, as a result of their opposition to Benito Mussolini’s regime, had to seek refuge in other countries, but only two settled in Malta – Giuseppe Donati and Umberto Calosso. A new book has been published to shed...
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Publisher pulls George Washington children's book amid slavery row
A new children's picture book about George Washington and his slaves is being taken off the shelves amid claims that it sentimentalises a brutal part of American history. A Birthday Cake For George Washington, released on January 5, has been...
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Laughter in the darkness
Trevor Żahra: Vespri.Merlin Publishers, 2015. As someone whose early reading habits were partly shaped by the treasure trove of adventures that was Trevor Żahra’s list of children’s books, I was thrilled with the release of a new collection of...
