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 Danielle Wright ventures into the surprisingly studious world of romance writing to meet some of the unpublished hopefuls waiting for their lucky break.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.

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

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

Shorty St actress Pearl McGlashan opens up about what she's flipped through as a book lover.

According to Claire Tomalin, his latest biographer, children no longer have the attention span to read Dickens. The author was born on February 7, 200 years ago.

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.

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?

Geraldine Johns asks six of our top chefs what their favourite cookbooks are — the ones that really inspire them — and why.