An Australian author arrives in Malta, hoping to overcome his writing block. He settles in a village near the capital, Valletta, where he meets a beautiful girl and becomes intrigued by the mysterious disappearance of a little boy that occurred twenty years earlier. However, the villagers are not pleased with his investigations.

A son begins reading the diary of his recently deceased father. Father and son had been estranged for quite some time and never truly got to know each other. By delving into his father’s diary and into his own memories, the son tries to gain a deeper understanding of his father.

“The Maltese Baron … and I Lucian” is a novel told by Lucian, and old man and a notoriously unreliable narrator. The return of his childhood friend to Malta sparks a series of recollections from their past, including events from the Second World War and Lucian’s relationship with a woman named Katarina.

“Jasmine Blossoms for All Time” is a modern classic of Maltese-language literature. It tells the story of Toninu, a boy growing up in Floriana (Furjana), just outside Malta’s capital, Valletta, in the 1950s.

“The Great Siege, Malta 1565” is not a novel but a historical account of the siege of Malta by the Ottoman Empire in 1565 and the valiant resistance by the Knights of Saint John.