Books
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Pride and Prejudice turns 200
It has launched Colin Firth’s heartthrob status, been given a Bollywood-style movie makeover and revamped as a zombie thriller novel. In the next few days, Jane Austen’s enduring publishing success Pride and Prejudice will reach the 200th...
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Taming the demons inside
Mario Azzopardi: Il-Fabbrikant tal-Marjunetti. Horizons, 2012. This latest volume of poetry and what the author calls poesaġġi shows the author, now approaching his 70th year, to be as verbally uninhibited and desperately uncertain as ever about man...
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Dan Brown’s latest novel out in May
Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s new novel will be published on May 14, his publisher Doubleday said after a social media puzzle worthy of the writer helped reveal the title. Inferno features the return of renowned Harvard symbologist and Da Vinci...
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Memories are made of this
Darrin Zammit Lupi (Ed.) The Times Picture Annual 2012. Allied Publications. 2012. 192 pp. One must admit that looking back at 2012 is an interesting experience. And there is no better way of doing it than by poring over the collection of...
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Victoria Cathedral through time
Charles R. Cassar, Stones of Faith. Tombstones, Funerary Rites, and Customs at the Gozo Matrice, Midsea Books; Malta 2012, 204 pp This book is another milestone in the history of the Church in Gozo for the simple reason that it is not just a...
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New lease of life for world’s first set of encyclopedia
The first edition of the world’s first set of encylopedia, the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, will be undergoing restoration thanks to the support of the Institute for Maltese Culture. Thanks to the...
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Fiction and sad records of the past
Laurence Mizzi: Ħsad fil-Ħarifa, Klabb Kotba Maltin; Mill-Arkivju ta’ Ħajti, Horizon. 2012. Laurence Mizzi is a much-respected author and broadcaster, best known perhaps for his book on Maltese individuals’ experiences of World War II and for his...
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A visual slice of Maltese society
Carmel Borg, Raphael Vella (Eds.) Shooting Society: Documenting Contemporary Life in Malta, Midsea Books. 2012. This publication combines a collection of 150 images by arguably some of the best photographers on the island, together with incisive,...
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1565 historic map of Malta
A historical map of Malta dating back to 1565 takes pride of prominence in a keepsake entitled The Great Siege of Malta 1565, that has just been published by Marianne de Vere Hinckle and printed at the Año Nuevo Island Press in San Francisco,...
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A Maltese visitor in 17th-century Brussels
Arnold Cassola: The Belgian memoirs of a Maltese intellectual, Giovanni Francesco Buonamico (1639-1680). Bank of Valletta. 2012. 78 pp. Giovanni Francesco Buonamico was a remarkable example of the Maltese intelligentsia who appeared in the 17th...
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New book focuses on Mediterranean security
A publication that assesses the main security factors influencing Euro-Mediterranean relations at the start of the 21st century was recently released by Prof. Stephen Calleya, director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the...
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The theory of creation
What is the philosophy of life? How did we get here? What is our purpose on earth? These are questions many of us have asked time and time again, without receiving a definite answer. To get very close to these answers, author Kevin Falzon, in his...
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Not only for young adults
Adrian Grima: Din Mhix Logħba and Vleġġa Kkargata. Klabb Kotba Maltin. 2012. 92 pp and 48 pp respectively. Adrian Grima’s two latest publications are beautifully complemented with illustrations by Karen Caruana and it is amazing the difference that...
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Canticle of the Wilderness
John Cremona: Il-Kantiku tax-Xagħra. Klabb Kotba Maltin, 2012, illustrations by Luciano Micallef. 144 pp. It is never any wonder that lawyers write poetry. In the popular mind they are not only in love with words, which they manipulate and turn...
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Defining moments in decades of politics
Mario Cutajar (Ed), Mintoff: the Man and History. Sensiela Kotba Soċjalisti, 2012. 608 pp. Well before the death of former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff in August 2012, the Labour Party had planned to publish a fitting tribute to the man who, in...
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Penning a tale of patriotism
Passionate about her Maltese descent, Canadian writer Marthese Fenech has celebrated Malta’s heritage in her historical book Eight-Pointed Cross. Jo Caruana interviews her about the international hit celebrated by critics and readers alike. Wherever...
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Art book, exhibition focusing on movies launched
Drawings from movies take the spotlight in Camouflage, Revolution and Desire – drawing from movies, a new publication by visual artists Ruth Bianco and Richard Davies that was recently launched, together with an exhibition of related...
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The conscience of a nation
The Essential Oliver Friggieri, a Malta University Publishing publication, is a new book by Charles Briffa. It includes some translated works and implies that the selection is representative of Friggieri’s feelings, thoughts and mind style in...
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The story of a man and his nation
A new 500-page volume about the life and times of the late former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, Mintoff: Il-Bniedem u l-Istorja has been launched by Sensiela Kotba Soċjalisti, the editorial house of the Labour Party. The book aims to initiate a...
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Maltese-Australian relations: the challenge is inter-generational, says leading historian
In a 70-page illustrated booklet just published by the Foreign Affairs Ministry in its series of talks on Malta’s relations with states, keynote speaker Henry Frendo notes that for Maltese-Australian relations to prosper, outreach must go “beyond...
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