Non-Fiction Local Publications

Gozo: Is the Grass Greener? is the story of the bestselling author, Freya Barrington, and her husband, Steve, when they moved from the UK to live o...

Sensual, painterly, even prayerful, these 50 poems and 50 full color original pictures by Sheryl Loeffler deepen into a land of legend and myth, an...

Din it-tieni edizzjoni ta’ Ballun Pinġut fiha 1400 kelma u espressjoni bil-Malti marbuta mal-futbol. L-awtur tal-ktieb ifisser it-termini fihom inf...

Operas are one of the most popular elements in the Western classical music tradition and in that of the former Soviet bloc. They are an art form wh...

L-opra hija waħda mill-forom l-iktar popolari tal-mużika lirika tal-Punent. F'Opri Popolari fil-Gzejjer Maltin nsibu l-għoxrin opra li kienu u għad...

This is a journey through the literary world of Albert Camus, Alberto Moravia, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrud Fussenegger, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel de Una...

The Battle Roar of Silence - Foucault and the Carceral System by Meinrad Calleja explores the philosophical rationales sustaining morality, law, pu...

The papers making up Fragments cover a variety of aspects of Malta’s late 19th and early 20th century. The subjects chosen can, in some sense, be c...

We all relate to doorways – the possibilities they open up, their romance, their infinite possibilities. The design of the doorway reveals a great ...

Putting pen to paper to tell his story, the realisation that he has lived this question through different experiences while growing up, later on in...

Second Glances of Gozo is a mix of poems inspired by the emotional moments experienced by the author living on the island over the last thirty year...

The book is a first of its kind which examines how institutional actors interpret, influence and respond to skills availability in the labour marke...

Sanctuaries of the Soul is a collection of award winning architect Richard England’s extensive body of works of sacred spaces. Comprising over 50 c...

“Dawn l-istudji,” jgħid l-awtur fl-introduzzjoni tiegħu, “huma intenzjonati biex jagħtu biss stampa wiesa’ ta’ kull ktieb fil-Patt il-Ġdid. Ma jidħ...

This is the first analysis of the Constitution of Malta, article by article. The author comments on all the 124 articles, with references to author...

It is fascinating to see, though incredibly difficult to analyse why, the vast majority of Maltese artists who are considered as the pioneers of Ma...

Illum…wasal iż-żmien li jkollna strumenti aħjar kif nikkontrollaw it-tifsir preċiż tal-kliem. Dan il-GLOSSARJU huwa għalhekk meħtieġ, mistenni, u i...

This is the fascinating account of a technological breakthrough which gave the Allies a propitious leg-up in achieving victory over the Nazis back ...

Edizzjoni ġdida, riveduta u aġġornata b’żjieda ta’ kapitlu ġdida filmitt anniversarju tasSette Giugno. Edizzjoni mimlija b’tagħrif ritratti u dokum...

The second of a series of five volumes of this unique series of books aimed at capturing the wealth of historical chapels in a way never seen befor...

Patrick Fenech has long harboured a secret desire to publish a photographic essay on the Maltese and Gozitan festa, by taking as many photographs o...

The starting point is the beginning of the 18th century, when the Order of St John introduced its second element to the fleet: the so-called vascel...

Description The Knights of the Order of St John did not live in a social vacuum. As human beings they had their needs which often clashed with the...

The National Museum of Natural History was officially inaugurated on 22 June 1973. The display areas consisted of a geology and palaeontology halls...

Some years ago, Thomas Freller published a monograph on Malta and the Grand Tour, where the subject of Gozo and its visitors was treated in a rathe...

The journey that Malta’s sole civil airport made was, at times quite eventful and it was only thanks to the skills and nous of those handling the p...

Images by S.L. Cassar from the 1890s to the 1930s

Sheltered behind impressive ramparts, the city of Valletta is surrounded by water on three sides. As if in the process of detaching itself from the...

“On the evening of 10 June 1940, a Monday, we were listening to the radio, as usual. I can hear it still, loud and clear; Mussolini’s defiant voice...

‘Researched in depth… UXB Malta vividly captures the close relationships which developed between the soldiers and the islanders.’ Soldier Magazine ...