The publication of The Waste Land app marks the end of the beginning.

Anyone glancing at the three books currently stacked on my bedside table would suspect a pre-occupation with love affairs.

The inquest into the deaths of the Kahui twins has heard evidence of an alleged confession from Macsyna King from a former partner. The twins died of head injuries at the Starship hospital in 2006.

Expat New Zealand director Andrew Niccol is working on a sci-fi film written by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer.

It can be a good or a bad thing if you finish a novel wanting more. In the case of Sarah Quigley's The Conductor it's both.

Stephen Jewell talks to American author Charlaine Harris about why readers must not confuse her True Blood novels with the television series.

Janet Evanovich is the US author of the best-selling Stephanie Plum stories and has just released the latest in the series Smokin' Seventeen.

Philip French looks at a new biography of Robert Redford.

So many books, so little time. Selecting books for Fiction Addiction is a delicious but sometimes difficult task, so this month we sought help by asking you what makes a good book club read.

The Girl In The Polka-dot Dress could be described as a "road novel", since most of the action takes place on the freeways of America as Harold Grasse drives his newly bought, second-hand camper from Maryland to California in the 1960s.

This book was honoured as the best pictorial book in this year's Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards and it's easy to see why.

Two middle-aged ladies are central to Alan Bennett's reflective pair of comedies in Smut.