Hundreds of people across France are participating in 'Post-it wars' where workers create pixelated images in their office windows using only Post-it notes.

A terrible thing happened, that day, up at Blackwoods' place, in The Secret River, the first of Grenville's historical novels set in the penal colony of New South Wales.

Every city can lay claim to its fair share of eccentrics. This book is about one of Melbourne's: Edward William Cole.

One of our finest acting and directing talents turns his attention to the classic musical Guys and Dolls. By Dionne Christian

Why are we so enthralled by the pronouncements of the latter-day gurus of self-help, asks Alex Clark.

Stephen Jewell talks to New Zealand actress-turned-writer Barbara Ewing about why she’s mesmerised by researching times gone by.

His books sell abroad, but not here. Paul Cleave tells Nicky Pellegrino why.

This book might more accurately have been titled In Love With Dante. It is a wholehearted piece of advocacy for the 14th century writer, of whom Wilson says it "could be argued that he was the greatest of all European poets, of any time or place".

Only in Ireland could a half-forgotten route be named the Way of St Declan or the way of St Patrick's Cow.

Australian writer Arnold Zable talls Graham Reid about giving voice to people in his work and his good fortune in post-revolution China.

The thing about the movies that we've never got over is that they move. In doing so, they evoke a facsimile of life better than life itself. Even the "fractured flickers" of the early cinema commanded an instant suspension of disbelief.

Our interviewer finds the canny but philanthropic arts patron hard to prod out of his shell.

If somebody locks himself in a stranger's spare room for months, is he escaping the world or facing up to it?

The movie will be out soon but read the book first, says Nicky Pellegrino.

The most important skill a photographer can have is learning to see: the beautiful in the bland and the interesting in the immaterial.

Nifty title. Nifty concept. Stories about work - manual work; skilled work; responsible, itinerant, above-board or undercover work. Nifty aim, also: all proceeds go to fund youth literacy programmes across the United States.

Hana Schofield is the co-author of the best-selling memoir, Goodbye Sarajevo.

Joyce Carol Oates, a prolific and award-winning writer, has assembled and revised a collection of essays and reviews that originally appeared in places such as the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.

This outstanding transcription of extraordinary events carries a telling subtitle: "A Novel of a Life".