Book Reviews Malta
Book Reviews by Ramona Depares on Malta’s Culture Portal.
The Maltese publishing landscapes has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade. With the professionalisation of the publishing sector, we are lucky to have some genuinely high quality names such as Merlin Publishers, BDL, Midsea Books, EDE Publications, Faraxa, Kite Group and many others.
A stronger and more successful Malta Book Festival has also contributed incredibly to this development, mostly thanks the the National Book Council’s continuous endeavours.
A rejuvinated Malta Libraries has also contributed to a thriving publishing scene, with book-related events organised regularly, especially for the little ones. And, while Malta has always suffered in performance when it comes to reading surveys, it is very refreshing to see that Malta Libraries events are now extremely popular with the younger generation.
Which is all music to my ears as, in this section, you will find a series of book reviews and write-ups or announcements about new books that are published in Malta. There is no limitation to genre and books will either be in the Maltese or English language.
The section features some of Malta’s most prominent authors, such as Karl Schembri, Lara Calleja, Clare Azzopardi, Kristina Chetcuti, Mark Vella and others. The section also includes information about the Beltin: Stejjer Minn Nies Minsija, Ramona Depares’s debut publication with Merlin Publishers.
Check out some of the reviews here:
Lara Calleja – Kissirtu Kullimkien
Kristina Chetcuti – Amazing Maltese Women
Il-Manifest tal-Killer may be set in the mid-90s, but the narrative remains eerily on point even today. When Il-Manifest tal-Killer was first published by Saviour Balzan under the Choppy Books… Read moreIl-Manifest tal-Killer: Book Review
A poignant collection of stories highlighting Malta’s construction plague Having read Lara Calleja’s debut novel, Lucy Min? – and thoroughly enjoyed it – I was curious as to what this… Read moreBook Review: Kissirtu Kullimkien
Shadeena to produce National Book Council funded project In news that will make many of Alex Vella Gera’s followers happy, Sriep has been transformed into a screenplay by Teodor Reljic… Read moreUPDATED WITH COMMENTS: Vella Gera’s Is-Sriep Reġgħu Saru Velenużi To Get Movie Treatment
Amazing Maltese Women, written by Kristina Chetcuti and published by Merlin Publishers Amazing Maltese women – what comes to mind with the phrase? Well, not much. I mean, look at… Read moreThis Book Tells Us the Stories of Malta’s Most Amazing Women
Remember Loranne Vella’s dystopian tale of social media gone wrong and extremism galore? The year in which Magna Mater is set is NOW, and the writer’s prognosis was rather horrifyingly… Read moreMagna Mater is now