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What they said about Giovanni Bonello’s Histories of Malta Ventures and Adventures Volume Six
We are again given cause to rejoice at the wealth of historical material published and craftily written by Vanni’s unequalled pen … What really makes this book stand apart is the fascinating variety of topics and personalities that come to life in a way that occasionally tends to chill one to the bone … another collection of mouth-watering and lurid tales … this magnificent volume … yet another essential publication from the pen of this nonchalant and extremely humble man of letters. Keep them coming, Vanni!
Gerald Fenechin The Malta Independent
What Giovanni Bonello has done through his extensive research is to bring these otherwise expressionless faces to lif in a way that does not fail to astound … Many of the stories in Volume 6 could be out of a contemporary News of the World … researches like Vanni Bonello’s serve to breathe life and provide flesh, blood and guts to an otherwise desiccated skeleton … a painstaking and dedicated researcher who has done so much in making our history more alive, more human and infinitely entertaining.
Kenneth Zammit Tabonain Weekender
… the vast amount of research Giovanni Bonello has carried out – and is still carrying out. In this country he is a phenomenon: a serious and indeed meticulous author who has appealed again and again to a wide readership, and is in the field of historical readership a best-seller in Malta … his mischievous, sometimes deliberately flippant, style … What many readers look for are tales of violence, treachery and the wider shores of sexual misbehavior … More fascinated by the splendid article about the Spanish knight Alonso de Contreras … his short history of inns and taverns in Malta during the past five hundred years will certainly become a starting point for future historians …
Paul Xuereb presenting the book
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