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![Travel book: <i>The Official Rugby World Cup 2011 Travel Guide</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Travel book: <i>The Official Rugby World Cup 2011 Travel Guide</i>
If you haven't already heard quite enough about Rugby World Cup 2011 then this is for you.
![Book lover: Tim Carlsen](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book lover: Tim Carlsen
Tim Carlsen is an Auckland actor who is performing in Silo Theatre's I Love You Bro, now playing at the Herald Theatre.
![Aravind Adiga: Mischief in Mumbai](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Aravind Adiga: Mischief in Mumbai
Aravind Adiga turns a mirror on Indian society, writes Nicky Pellegrino.
![New stars of Nordic noir](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
New stars of Nordic noir
Why, asks Barry Forshaw, are Scandinavian writers winning worldwide acclaim for their crime?
![Fiction Addiction: Four hot new novels](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Fiction Addiction: Four hot new novels
We had the world's politest fight over who got first dibs on the most promising of the new novels on our Fiction Fix hot list this month...
![Book Review: Goodbye Sarajevo](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: Goodbye Sarajevo
Sarajevo, in Bosnia, was the perfect city for a siege. Nestled in a valley surrounded by hills, the people below became easy targets.
![Book Review: We Are Soldiers](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: We Are Soldiers
Award-winning Sunday Times columnist Danny Danziger made the inspired decision not to write a book about British soldiers, but to let the soldiers tell their own stories.
![Jeffery Deaver: Wrestling with the morality of spying](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Jeffery Deaver: Wrestling with the morality of spying
Jeffery Deaver tells Stephen Jewell why the new Bond carries an iPhone.
![Fiction Addiction: Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff Q&A](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Fiction Addiction: Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff Q&A
Boston University journalism professor Mitchell Zuckoff was researching a story about World War II when he came across an article in the Chicago Tribune from June 1945. He was stunned.
![England: Fine home for a bear of little brain](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
England: Fine home for a bear of little brain
Ashdown Forest is one of Britain's many literary haunts, writes Robert McCrum.
![Travel book: <i>Marathon</i>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Travel book: <i>Marathon</i>
Not a travel book as such but just the sort of book I like taking with me when I'm travelling somewhere ... in this case to Greece.
![Fiction Addiction: Lost in Shangri-La - a non-fiction addiction](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Fiction Addiction: Lost in Shangri-La - a non-fiction addiction
Though I'm reading non-fiction for this month's book club - and I read a novel based on a true story last month - I prefer pure fiction.
![How to avoid being killed: A traveller's guide](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
How to avoid being killed: A traveller's guide
A Middle East-based journalist has penned a book advising travellers how to keep themselves safe in dangerous places.
![Book Review: Lowboy](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: Lowboy
Lowboy leads us on a dark yet wondrous journey into the strange subterranean world beneath the streets of New York City - and deep inside the chaos of his own unravelling mind.
![Book Review: In A Strange Room](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: In A Strange Room
This haunting, Booker-short-listed novel follows a young South African man identified only as Damon. Yes, just like the author.
![Book Review: The Best Of Young Spanish Novelists](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: The Best Of Young Spanish Novelists
The 22 Spanish writers in this entertaining collection were all born in or since 1975, the year General Francisco Franco died after 36 years of repressive rule in Spain.
![Book Review: Caleb's Crossing](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Book Review: Caleb's Crossing
Once again Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks takes a simple, barely known historical fact, fattens out and brings it to life so lyrically you feel transported back in time.
![Nalini Singh: Romance meets sci-fi](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Nalini Singh: Romance meets sci-fi
New Zealand writer Nalini Singh tells Stephen Jewell how she began writing as a teen and never looked back.
![Jeffery Deaver's licence to thrill fans](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Jeffery Deaver's licence to thrill fans
Jeffery Deaver's 007 is young and modern, writes Nicky Pellegrino.