Oct 28 - Gibunco Gibraltar International Literary Festival: ‘It’s A Triumph’ Says Costa
The Rock’s first ever international literary festival held over the past weekend has been a resounding success, according to the Government and organisers.
Oct 28 - Doner Kebab Inventor Dies
Who loves a greasy kebab and chips with lashings of cocktail sauce after a night on the tiles?
Tributes from across the globe have poured in for the man who is reportedly the "inventor" of the doner kebab. Kadir Nurman, a Turkish immigrant, passed away this weekend in Berlin at the age of 80.
Oct 28 - GADA Presents ‘Bang Bang Beirut’
The Gibraltar Amateur Drama Association will be staging their new play, "Bang Bang Beirut", by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton, as part of the Autumn Festival. Performance days will be Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st October and Saturday 1st November.
Commenting on the performance, a GADA spokesperson noted, ‘again GADA is sticking to their tried and tested formula of offering its audience its usual hilarious evening with this play. An outrageously funny farce set in the lobby and courtyard of a small hotel in the Middle East, where a group of British undercover agents (in a variety of unlikely disguises) are trying to weather a local military coup, while devising a plan to smuggle a young native prince out of danger.
Oct 23 - Sam Benady And Mary Chiappe At The Literary Festival
Local authors Sam Benady and Mary Chiappe will be launching their fifth Bresciano mystery, The Devil’s Tongue, during this weekend’s Literary Festival. Sam and Mary will be talking to broadcaster David Freeman at 5:00pm on Saturday 26 October in the Upper Reading Room of the Garrison Library.
Oct 23 - The Escape Artist: A Gibraltarian Novel – Book Signing This Afternoon
Gibraltarian writer M. G. Sanchez is currently in Gibraltar to launch his latest novel. Entitled The Escape Artist, the book is set in the decade between 1970 and 1980 and features a plot that shifts backwards and forwards between Cambridge in the UK, Venice and Gibraltar.
