Books
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Sunday, February 19, 2012 , by
Joseph Schirò
L’Isle Adam’s Graduals at St John’s
Theresa Zammit Lupi: Cantate Domino: Early Choir Books for the Knights in Malta, Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, Malta 2011, 184 pp. (hardback). Theresa Zammit Lupi’s book is a first in Malta. The book she...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Knox to share ‘truth’ on ordeal
Amanda Knox, who spent four years in jail in Italy on charges of murdering her British roommate before being acquitted, has signed a book deal with HarperCollins, the publisher said. HarperCollins, a subsidiary of Rupert...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Talking about angels
Norwegian Princess Martha Louise, who has set up her own alternative medicine business, has published her second book about angels, advising readers on how to talk to them. There are an infinite number of angels all around us who want to...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012 , by
Dean Muscat
Imagination run wild
Local author Clare Azzopardi speaks to Dean Muscat about the magic of children’s literature, her project Ħarba and the importance of arts funds. For Clare Azzopardi, the aspiration of organising the first international...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012 , by
Louis Scerri
Photographer with a difference
Giovanni Bonello: Nostalgias of Malta, Images by Alfred Vella Gera from 1920 to 1964, Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, Malta 2011, €55. The sixth volume of Giovanni Bonello’s Nostalgias of Malta is dedicated to the oeuvre...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
New publication of Responsorial Psalms
The Interdiocesan Liturgical Commission has published a book containing Responsorial Psalms for Sundays throughout the liturgical year. The Responsorial Psalm has gained importance since Vatican Council II. Thirteen centuries of tradition...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
On becoming invisible
In the February issue of the magazine Flimkien, Mgr Anton Portelli writes about the way we must always seek the positive elements in any circumstance. We must also ask for forgiveness for having judged badly sometimes, and for having missed any...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Medicine misuse
The way the Maltese take medicines such as aspirin and ibuprofen is documented in a book by a pharmacist and teacher. The Use of NSAIDs and Patient Safety features the study carried out by Maria Dolores Baldacchino for her Masters...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
International Journal of Emotional Education
The latest issue of the International Journal of Emotional Education (IJEE) has been published by the Euro Centre for Educational Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health at the University of Malta. The issue focuses on European initiatives...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Milly and Molly books are back
Four new books in Maltese from the Milly, Molly children’s series have been published. With these four new titles, there are now 20 Milly, Molly books translated into Maltese. The new books were also translated into...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Chocolates to savour
The unusual kitchen staff and their protests that hilariously unleash hell at Mimmo’s, the magical sweetness of Rosy Lilybottom and her angels gone missing are a few nibblings from Four Chocolates to Savour, four short stories by...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
One historic event, two books and many heartfelt emotions
The shipwreck of St Paul in 60AD is a significant event in the history of the Maltese islands and its commemoration is very much a national occasion. The feast will be celebrated in Valletta tomorrow. The preparations for the...
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Monday, February 6, 2012 , by
Charles Xuereb
An intriguing Maltese history
Malte, 7000 Ans D’HistoireAlain BlondyEditions Bouchene France pp170ISBN 978-2-35676-023-4 Over the centuries the Maltese have been spectators to a theatre of foreign historical actors on their very own soil.
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Sunday, February 5, 2012 , by
Louis Scerri
The Order in bloom
Emanuel Buttigieg: Nobility, Faith and Masculinity. The Hospitaller Knights of Malta, c.1580– c.1700, Continuum, London and New York, 2011, 315 pp. Emanuel Buttigieg’s Nobility, Faith and Masculinity marks the emergence of a young a...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 , by
Paul Xuereb
A journalist and patriot
John Mizzi: Antonio Muscat Fenech: Ġurnalista Pijunier tal-Ilsien Malti. Self-published. 96pp. The distinguished journalist and author, John Mizzi’s smallish but well-researched and even better illustrated book, is about his...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 , by
Kenneth Zammit Tabona
A unique island with a unique (art) history
Hilary Spiteri: Academic Artistic Training in Early British Malta, Allied Publications, 2011. With the decision taken by the government to move the national art collection back to Auberge d’Italie from what is still popularly...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 , by
Alfred Palma
Secrets of a secluded house
Salv Sammut: Id-Dar ta’ Ħdejn il-Baħar, Bronk Productions, 2011, 560 pp. One of a writer’s greatest gifts, besides a fertile imagination, is an innate ability to capture the atmosphere that permeates both the story and the character...
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Monday, January 23, 2012 , by
Tim Witcher
Queen’s ‘little bubble’ keeps her friends at bay
Queen Elizabeth II’s friends dare not ask her about her personal feelings because of the wall of privacy around her, according to a US journalist given access to the British monarch’s entourage for a new biography. Elizabeth the Qu...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012 , by
Fr Mark Sultana
Where is the Church anyway?
Matthew Urpani (Ed.) Faith in Pluralistic Malta, University Chaplaincy, 2011, 113 pp. Malta appears to be passing through an interesting phase. At present, there seem to be competing Maltese identities: on the one hand, an inherited...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Australian guest’s suspicious visit
Alfred Massa, novelist, poet and president of the Maltese Poets Association, has published his 10th novel: Il-Ħajja Mqallba taz-Zija Rhoda. Massa’s first novel Is-Salib tal-Ġiżirana (1973) was the first in a long series of novels and...
