Sales pitch: 'I want to write a book that is a sort of summary of a wilfully ambiguous science fiction movie made by a Russian director more than 30 years ago.'

Recently, while sitting in the airport lounge in Sydney waiting for a flight home, I glanced up from my hardcover book and surveyed the other travellers in my immediate vicinity.

The Office star Mackenzie Crook adds another string to his creative bow with a children's book. He tells Stephen Jewell how the idea came to him.

Oscar Kightley shares insight on his ventures into the world of literature.

Artist Dr. Rev creates unique paintings with an interesting medium - his own blood.

Eowyn Ivey's daring début novel will be hard to follow, notes Nicky Pellegrino.

In an age where the care of ourselves has become a religion Alice Hoffman’s book presents an almost-forgotten way of life.

This is such a clever idea for a novel that it's a wonder no one has thought of it before.

I thought this might be too sad to read.

This book is full of information about what to look out for when buying or renting a motorhome.

I hate calling a book “charming”, but Christopher Morgan’s narrative deserves the adjective.

Nora Roberts is one of the world’s best-selling authors. However, the literary establishment has mostly been indifferent to her success.

There's a Mills & Boon romance novel sold every four seconds. Danielle Wright ventures into the surprisingly studious world of romance writing to meet some of the unpublished hopefuls waiting for their lucky break.

The Auschwitz Violin features an extraordinary moment in the life of Daniel, a Jewish violin-maker imprisoned at Auschwitz.

Edmund White has spoken repeatedly of his crawling conviction as a boy and young man that being homosexual was “bad”.

In this book are a dozen short stories that will take you only a couple of hours to read but far longer to forget.

Shorty St actress Pearl McGlashan opens up about what she's flipped through as a book lover.