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

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

Gordon Ramsay might be dropping an f-word or two after he topped a US doctors' list of the worst cookbooks of the year.

Kerri Jackson dons her imaginary apron and picks out the best cookbooks for Christmas.

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.

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.

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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.

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

New Zealand-born Ruth Park resonated with generations of Australians, novelist Thomas Keneally said today.

The fight to prevent a house designed by Arthur Conan Doyle from being converted into flats is to be taken to the UK's High Court.

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.

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.

Interesting architecture, open spaces, galleries, shops, dining options and tourism activities make Melbourne's 'Fed Square'.

Adventurous foreign correspondent Tim Butcher decides to emulate a 560km trek that novelist Graham Greene made in 1935.

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.

The 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry received their prizes in Stockholm last night.