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‘A moving testament to the life and work of an extraordinary woman and the country-changing power of journalism’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times
‘A murdered mother’s fight for truth and justice lives on through the words of her youngest son’ Angelina Jolie
‘A work of rare vividness and authority, devastatingly told’ Financial Times
When Paul Caruana Galizia was at work in London, his eldest brother called to say their mother Daphne had just been assassinated. That day, he returned to their native Malta and, with his two brothers and their father, began a quest to discover who was responsible for Daphne’s murder and who stood to profit from ending the life of a journalist whose courage and determination threatened the powerful with the truth. Two years later, they did.
A Death in Malta is more than an investigation into the life and assassination of Daphne by her son Paul. It’s an examination of the globalisation of corruption and what it has done to a modern European country; it’s about that country’s escape from colonialism to another kind of arrogant power; it’s a personal history of writing when the stakes are high and the intimidation is violent. Above all, it’s a universal homage to mothers and their sons.
‘A superbly honest and very painful account . . . A book that is unforgettable, beautifully written and deeply honest’ John Simpson, Guardian
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Imprint: Penguin (Cornerstone)
Publication date: 06/08/2024
A Death in Malta
By Paul Caruana Galizia
Review by Claudia
This book is a shocking and invigorating look into one small country’s closely knitted web of corruption. Daphne Caruana Galizia, mother of the author, was a Maltese journalist. She was murdered in 2017 with a car bomb planted by hitmen hired by Maltese politicians. A Death in Malta details her career as a journalist and her investigation into the links between the Panama Papers and the Maltese government. Written by her youngest son Paul, the book is hard to put down. At times the quest for justice for her family feels hopeless, but something changed for the citizens of Malta after Daphne’s murder. This book is both a manual for how to spot corruption, a recipe for its undoing and a shining example of why journalism is so important. Her sons have ensured her death has not been in vain, and their account of the lengths they had to go to for not only justice but fairness in their own country’s law court moved me to tears several times. There is hope in the face of corruption, and it is hard won.
