Julie Orringer’s first book, a stunning short-story collection entitled How To Breathe Underwater, was a New York Times notable book.

Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Bernardo Greene is a patient at a Clinic for Torture Victims. In his native Chile, he'd been tortured for two years by the Pinochet regime.

It's not always easy to travel with children (or grandchildren) because their needs and interests are rather different.

When a serious academic turns her hand to fiction, the result is magic.

Harlan Coben is a United States author of best-selling thrillers whose latest, Live Wire, ($39.99 RRP, Orion) was released last month.

Back in the 1970s Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City columns captured the off-beat spirit of San Francisco. One of Maupin's leading characters was Mary Ann Singleton, a TV presenter.

This issue of the British literary journal is dedicated to Pakistan.

Contractors Bonding Ltd have stumped up $300,000 to fund the project, which will be on permanent loan to the stadium.

Seeing Hemingway through his first wife's eyes is an intriguing view.

Self-publishing has traditionally been a surefire route to obscurity and dismal sales. Now a British thriller writer who sells his novels as ebooks for as little as 71p ($1.50) is proving the naysayers wrong.

Works from the gothic vault suggest some some deep premonitions of disaster.

Australian illustrator Shaun Tan's life in recent weeks has been as fantastical as his children's books.

German Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass always weaves some kind of magic through his stories and, in the case of his autobiographical work, this further blurs the demarcation line between his facts and his fictions.

Thriller writer Robert Crais talks to Craig Sisterson about the allure of Hollywood and turning an enigmatic sidekick into a leading man.

It was 1956 and Eric Newby, the man who would become one of Britain's most admired travel writers, was stuck in a fitting room with a designer, a model and a lady with a mouth full of pins.

Actress Michelle Langstone shares her secrets as a bookworm.

Stories of young, attractive women desperately trying to escape their small-town roots by allowing themselves to be seduced by older, apparently more worldly men, are not new.

Jeffrey, Lord Archer, to the photographer: "Isn't she awful?" Me, to the photographer: "Isn't he awful?"

As she grows older and hones in on the big issues of life, Joanna Trollope just gets better.

Bernard Beckett tells Graham Reid about writing for the savvy teens of today.

Charlotte Randall is an award-winning New Zealand author whose novels reflect someone utterly in love with the potential of language.