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NEW: Musings and Mutterings of a Maltese Misanthrope

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Promotional Video for the New Book

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NEWS: Maltese-Australian author Rupert Grech now affiliated with Hope and Life Press

Hope and Life Press is pleased to welcome on board the Maltese-Australian author Rupert Grech, with his new nonfiction book of short stories titled Musings and Mutterings of a Maltese Misanthrope. … Source: NEWS: Maltese-Australian author Rupert Grech now affiliated with Hope and Life PressFiled under: Writing

Thanks Dan

It is always gratifying and highly appreciated when receiving positive feedback. A message like this is very touching: Hi Rupert, My name is Daniel and I live in South Australia to a Maltese born father, Michael Grech. I was recently researching a planned holiday to Malta this year and I was looking up Maltese travel […]

Helga

Originally posted on Stories My Parents Told Me:
  “I had a girlfriend in Denmark”…apologies to Danish author Isak Dinesen and for similarities to the first line from the movie, “Out of Africa”. Helga was a truly magnificent woman. She was striking to look at; a physically strong and powerfully built woman in her mid-twenties,…

The Brass Monkey Gig

“Exactly what have you got us into, Barry?” Barry was the guitarist and made most of the bookings for the band. We had just driven through the gates and checkpoint at the showground of the little country village that was miles from nowhere, after explaining to four huge, fearsome looking men in black leather and […]

The Refrigerator

“NO, you must be kidding! Now the fridge has packed it in.” Just what I needed this month, what with my smartphone being stolen, car registration and insurance papers arriving in the post as well as recently buying a new dishwasher, new computer and printer, paying for repairs to the ride-on mower and purchasing “George”, […]

First short story of the new collection

The Big Move to the Old House It all started at about 8:30am on a day that was forecast to be sunny and thirty-five degrees Celsius, a beautiful but unusually hot day for the Blue Mountains, an area that lies about one thousand metres above sea level and a couple of hours drive west of […]

An Extract From the Latest Book (as yet unpublished)

The best and truly most exquisite quality of music is its power to emotionally transport you back to a specific time, place or person, and the ensuing feelings that in your mind will always be associated with a particular song or record. Just a few bars of the first track on David Bowie’s “Hunky Dory” […]

Introduction to My New Book (completed but as yet unpublished)

Musings and Memoirs of a Middle-aged Misanthrope The following collection of fifteen chronicles was inspired by a recent event that brought back a flood of old memories- I moved house. Part of that moving experience (pun intended) was dismantling my stereo and then reassembling it again at the new location, which in fact was my […]