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Travel book: <I>Planet Penguin</I>
Santa chose the perfect present for a penguin fan like me when he put Planet Penguin in my stocking at Christmas.
Fiction Addiction: A Muslim in America: the debut novel rocking the US (Q&A)
Ayad Akhtar's debut novel American Dervish concerns seldom-explored territory in American literature: What does it mean to be both Muslim and American? Here's our chat with Akhtar.
J.K Rowling: Billionaire to millionaire
One of the world's wealthiest women, J.K Rowling, has given so much money to charity she can no longer claim billionaire status.
Book Review: The Day She Cradled Me
It would be hard to imagine a more downbeat heroine for an historical novel than Minnie Dean.
Book Review: England is Perfectly Still
The memoir can be a difficult genre to deal with, for author and reader alike.
Book Review: Letters of Frank Sargeson
There are some 500 items in this fascinating selection of Frank Sargeson’s letters — a number that nevertheless represents only about a quarter of the more than 6000 which survive.
A book about la dolce vita doesn't suit all tastes
A year in Italy inspires a book, but it's not all praise, notes Nicky Pellegrino.
Watching the detectives
Precious Ramotswe faces one of her nastiest adversaries yet in Alexander McCall Smith's latest No 1 Ladies Detective Agency novel. The Scottish writer talks to Linda Herrick
Travel book: <I>Italia</I>
Not really a travel book, I know, but surely one of the best reasons for visiting Italy is the fantastic food.
Book Review: Waiting For Sunrise
At first sight, Lysander Rief, standing on the corner of the Augustiner Strasse in 1913 Vienna, looks like a hero.
Book Review: The New Granta Book of Travel
Although the incident occurred nearly 50 years ago, "it won't leave my mind," Theroux writes in one of the most chilling stories in this disparate collection from writers well-known and new.