John Boyne, the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (David Fickling Books), will be the headlining international guest of the 2022 Malta Book Festival. Boyne’s presence at the 2022 Malta Book Festival is part of the international book tour for the forthcoming publication of his critically acclaimed latest novel, All the Broken Places (Doubleday), out on 15 September 2022 in the UK, and globally after that. The adult sequel to Boyne’s celebrated YA holocaust novel returns to the themes of guilt, complicity and grief, and a devastating story about Gretel Fernsby, a ninety-one-year-old woman who must confront the sins of her dark and disturbing past. Boyne describes All the Broken Places as “a book that sets out to examine how culpable a young person might be, given the historical events unfolding around her, and whether such a person can ever cleanse themselves of the crimes committed by the people she loved.” The book has also been described by the influential Kirkus Reviews as “a complex, thoughtful character study that avoids easy answers”. “When is a monster’s child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a maestro of historical fiction.