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7 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 20 JANUARY 2019 TV, MUSIC AND BOOKS The Favourite The Favourite In the early 18th century, England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead, while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance to return to her aristocratic roots. Glass Glass is a sequel movie to M. Night Shyamalan's previous movies, Unbreakable and Split. In the movie, the main characters of both movies return, continuing after the end of Split. Glass fi nds Dunn pursuing Crumb's superhuman fi gure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men. The Bodyguard After an act of heroism which prevents a terrorist attack on a train, Police Sergeant and war veteran David Budd is assigned to protect the Home Secretary, Julia Mon- tague. Budd is the consummate professional but fi nds himself confl icted and is still suffering after returning from the war. Now on Netfl ix, the British series will keep you on your toes. Maggie Rogers – Heard It In a Past Life Maryland singer Maggie Rogers has fi nally dropped her highly-anticipated debut album, Heard It in a Past Life. The 12-track project features her previously released singles, 'Light On', 'Fallingwater' 'Alaska' and 'On and Off' along with new tracks that showcase Roger's upbeat music persona. James Blake -Assume Form James Blake has released his fourth studio album, Assume Form, featuring the likes of Andre 3000, TravisScott, Moses Sumney and Rosalia. The album sees a shift in Blake's music, with a certain clar- ity coming out in his songs, proving that the singer and producer has progressed signifi cantly from his 2016 album. Future – Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD is Future's seventh solo studio album. The album consists of 20 traks, including some of Future's recently released singles like 'Crushed Up; and 'Jumping on a Jet' and featuring Travis Scott, Gunna and Young Thug. The album comes with a Apple Music documen- tary Maltese Tokens – a collection – Tony Stivala & Jeanette E Stivala This publication is about tokens used in Malta during the British period, mainly from the late Vic- torian period to the 1960s. The Stivalas have managed to fi nd quite a good number of tokens since Lyall's 1999 publication, in which 95 different establishments had been identifi ed. This publication identifi es no less than 84 new establishments, most of which are new or different to those already identifi ed by Lyall. These Malta 'tokens', in their various forms and intended use, tell the economic and social history of Malta, albeit, at times, verging on the shady side. Never- theless, it is a Malta story which these tokens help to commemorate and immortalise. Karen McManus – Two Can Keep a Secret A perfect town is hiding secrets. Two teenagers are dead. Two murders unsolved. And a killer who claims to be coming back. Ellery's never been to Echo Ridge, but she's heard all about it. It's where her aunt went missing at age sixteen, never to return. Where a Homecoming Queen's murder fi ve years ago made national news and where Ellery now has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, after her failed-actress mother lands in rehab. Benjamin Balint - Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfi l his friend's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to editing, publishing and canonizing Kafka's work. But that betrayal also eventually lead to an international legal battle: as a writer in German, should Kafka's papers come to rest in Germany, where his three sisters died as victims of the Holocaust? Or, as a Jewish writer, should his work be considered as a cultural inheritance of Israel, a state that did not exist at the time of his death? What to watch, listen to and read this week Movies and TV shows Music Books Maltese Tokens Tony Stivala & Jeanette E Stivala Heard It In a Past Life Maggie Rogers