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West is best for Outrageous star
Just as her on-screen love affair with 'Westie' culture came to an end, Robyn Malcolm has made the move in real life.

Fat Freddy's global profile grows
Kiwi collective Fat Freddy's Drop has won a spot at one of the biggest music festivals in the United States.

Book Review: American Subversive
Aidan is a thirty-something professional blogger, living a low-rent version of the high-life in post-9/11 New York. His relationship with his journalist girlfriend, Cressida, is strained; he's stuck in a bit of a rut.

Book Review: The Elephant's Journey
Alas, this this is the second-to-last novel from the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner from whom I have gained so much enjoyment and stimulus over the past few years.

The present lies between the pages
Left your Christmas shopping to the very last moment? Want to do the whole lot speedily, all in one shop and with the minimum of fuss? Books are the answer to all your gift needs. Here's our pick of what's on the shelves.

Book Review: Traitor
A book that poses the really big questions: about war and friendship, about love and loss, about living and dying.

Book Review: The Complete Brigadier Gerard
It’s not often that you get a book endorsed by both Philip Pullman and Winston Churchill. But then, Conan Doyle’s French cavalry officer has been around for nearly 120 years, and has been read by five or six generations.

Book Review: Griffith Review 30
This second annual Griffith fiction collection focuses on contributors and topics from the Pacific in a generously interpreted sense.

Book Review: The Brave
Nicholas Evans' new novel, The Brave, deals with the hard edges of life. This is a story of people and relationships interlaced with a complicated and ambitious plot.

Book Review: Parisians: An Adventure History Of Paris
Graham Robb has that rare gift of storytelling that compels riveted attention from readers of non-fiction as much as fiction and he understands that stories may spring emotionally from places but inevitably embrace the lives of people.

Don't miss: Federation Square Events
Interesting architecture, open spaces, galleries, shops, dining options and tourism activities make Melbourne's 'Fed Square'.

Travel book: <i>Chasing the Devil</i>
Adventurous foreign correspondent Tim Butcher decides to emulate a 560km trek that novelist Graham Greene made in 1935.

Handmade in Canada
With almost 50 books to her name, the formidably intelligent Margaret Atwood is a force to be reckoned with. She talks to Robert McCrum about cowardly politicians, her love of birds and why she's joined the Twitterati.

Book Review: The Marrowbone Marble Company
An enormously worthy and well-intentioned novel, strengthened by its ethical content, burdened by the very same ethical content.

Book Review: The Night Bookmobile
First, because it has to be done, let's get our definitions sorted. The cover of this slim volume bills it as a graphic novel.