LifestyleBooks: Against the ebbing tide"Short stories don't sell," is the current mantra of publishers everywhere, as a way of refusing to look at proffered manuscripts in case they love them and are sorely tempted.12 Dec 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Riding highSome Luck is the first volume of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley’s trilogy set in the Iowa badlands. Boyd Tonkin reports.12 Dec 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: 'It better be big. It better be good. It better be worth it'With a new novel out, and a potential film finally on the horizon, Patricia Cornwell tells Judith Woods how Dr Kay Scarpetta was held hostage by Hollywood.12 Dec 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Court and conflict make gripping dramaChanging fortunes in Tudor times have ring of reality.29 Nov 05:00 PM
LifestyleThe best books of the yearINTERACTIVE: Our annual guide to the best books to give and receive this Christmas. Guess which ones made the list.28 Nov 06:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: The lone wolfEach year American novelist Richard Ford heads to Ireland to shoot woodcock. Robert McCrum joins him on the Irish coast.21 Nov 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Punk rides againComic book artist Ant Sang talks to David Larsen about his ‘transformational journey’14 Nov 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Small steps towards fascismThe conversation turns to how to end the world when David Larsen talks to writer Jo Walton.07 Nov 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Pulling the plugMeetings with prize-winning authors form the basis for new satire, writes Stephen Jewell.31 Oct 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Elementary, my dearAnthony Horowitz talks to Linda Herrick about shocking his readers with his new Sherlock, why he wrote with a fountain pen and how his difficult school years drove him to the world of books.24 Oct 05:00 PM
TravelTravel book review: <I>View From The Road</I>This journey along State Highway 1 show that the nation's backbone is a place of life as well as an inanimate stretch of bitumen, writes Alex Robertson.23 Oct 04:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Ian Wedde goes there and back againIan Wedde retraces his childhood steps from Blenheim to Pakistan, Bangladesh, England and Jordan, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.17 Oct 05:00 PM
