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Malta Book Fair, Valletta 2016

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A Happy Reader at the Piadina Cafe

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Counterintuitive

I am a huge fan of the counterintuitive. You just have to love the counterintuitive. One moment your thoughts are travelling along happily and seemingly appropriately in one direction, then things take a 180 degree turn and you realise the opposite is true. I assume that the pleasure the counterintuitive creates comes from the blending […]

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He started his walk around the perimeter of the ancient city he lived in every evening at precisely 6pm, after 7pm in the heat of summer. He knew his walk would take him 56 minutes from the moment he left his small and tidy stone house until he returned and re-entered his bright blue front […]

Lovely Review and Enjoyable Interview- Thanks Hadel

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Ironic.

It was the last full day of my father’s visit to me in Malta before he returned to his home in Australia, so I took him to Mdina for a Sunday treat of cake at Fontenella’s. My father turns eighty-four years of age in two month’s time and has become very forgetful and easily confused. […]

The Maltese Frugal Gene

My Aunt Tessie’s house was an homage to longevity and plastic protection. Furniture, carpets, appliances and everything else that couldn’t get out of the way fast enough. It was quintessential Maltese frugal gene in action. Even more so than in my own home. Everything had to last forever and be kept in pristine condition. Auntie […]

The Octogenarian Returns

# Conversation with my 84 year old Maltese father. Dad: What’s your new book about? Is it about Malta during the war, like the first one? Me: No. It’s a collection of short stories with a humorous theme to them. Dad: But what’s it about? Me: Well, it’s not about anything, really. The premise is […]