Tag: publishers
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No big dreams allowed with Labour
One of the projects that was left pending after my exit from the National Book Council in August 2021 was the National Book Centre in Valletta. After years of lobbying, I had effectively acquired under the National Book Council’s remit one of the first palaces built in Valletta and we had also successfully fully restored…
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It Ends with Evil Publishers: the Colleen Hoover Phenomenon
Books are afforded a lot of slack that other media do not benefit from when it comes to quality. Who cares, we ask, if some books are bad? At least people are reading, right? Why don’t we say the same about TV? Or movies? Why don’t we say the same about music? That TV series…