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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.
Book Review: Leaving Alexandria
The person who is not religious reading this former believer's journey to a lack of faith can be tempted to ask: "What took you so long?"
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.
Book lover: Sophie Hannah
UK best-selling author Sophie Hannah welcomes you into the inner sanctum of her world as a book worm.
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.