UK author Paul Torday opens up about what she's flipped through as a book lover.

Nicky Pellegrino feels let down by an Aussie thriller that needs oomph.

There's a Mills & Boon romance novel sold every four seconds. Danielle Wright ventures into the surprisingly studious world of romance writing to meet some of the unpublished hopefuls waiting for their lucky break.

Here are our picks for February.

The publishing year has cranked up in earnest and the bookshops are beginning to fill with rows of tempting new reads, many of them debuts. Here are our picks for February.

The Auschwitz Violin features an extraordinary moment in the life of Daniel, a Jewish violin-maker imprisoned at Auschwitz.

Edmund White has spoken repeatedly of his crawling conviction as a boy and young man that being homosexual was “bad”.

In this book are a dozen short stories that will take you only a couple of hours to read but far longer to forget.

E-books are a threat to justice and responsible self-government. Apparently. And here’s naïve old me thinking they were just convenient tools for reading escapist novels.

A new book has found total tax rates on the incomes of rich New Zealanders are now...

Unsettled teenage thoughts can be gripping, says Nicky Pellegrino.

The post-apocalyptic young adult novel hasn’t yet been released in America, and already the movie rights have been sold, and Twilight producer Karen Rosenfelt has been hired to take it to the big screen.

There's no doubt that a lot of travellers want to feel that they're doing their bit to save the planet.

A rare condition left critic Nick Coleman unable to hear the music he adored. Here, he explains how he learned to listen again.

Hanging out for your Downton Abbey Christmas Special fix this Wednesday? You’re not alone.

Gwendoline Smith is a psychologist and the author of several books.

What an odd book this is.

The movie on Marilyn is out soon, but the book has intrigued Nicky Pellegrino.

Anthony McCarten's sequel to his novel Death of a Superhero charts a grieving family's retreat into the world of computer games. But the implications of teenagers immersed in games of mass murder really worry him

It's much easier to find the motivation to chill out with a glass of red wine or take a bubble bath than it is to pull on your sneakers and work up a sweat. That's where The Grit Doctor comes in.

After a fairly quiet summer, the shelves of the bookshops are filling up with promising new fare.

The world is divided between surfers and those uninterested in being drowned, pulverised, eaten by great whites, or having straw hair. Yes, I know, I know ...

The Year Of The Hare, originally published in 1975, has gone on to sell millions of copies in 18 languages and as two feature films.

How do authors come up with a pen name?