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Book lover: Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben is a United States author of best-selling thrillers whose latest, Live Wire, ($39.99 RRP, Orion) was released last month.

Deborah Harkness: Once bitten ...
When a serious academic turns her hand to fiction, the result is magic.

Travel on a plate (+recipe)
Last year's MasterChef winner Brett McGregor's cookbook takes your tastebuds on a culinary journey.

Book Review: Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel
Back in the 1970s Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City columns captured the off-beat spirit of San Francisco. One of Maupin's leading characters was Mary Ann Singleton, a TV presenter.

Patrick Rothfuss: Making it up as he goes
American writer Patrick Rothfuss tells David Larsen why he avoids clichés in both life and literature.

Book Review: <i>Granta 112</i>
This issue of the British literary journal is dedicated to Pakistan.

Mobsters make offers legal doctors can't refuse
Italian mobsters will try anything to convince judges they are suffering from depression or anorexia.

The pulse of good food (+recipe)
Ross Dobson's latest book makes the most of storecupboard essentials.

Children's literature prize for Australian Oscar winner
Australian illustrator Shaun Tan's life in recent weeks has been as fantastical as his children's books.

Brett McGregor: The birth of a celebrity chef
Where are they now? It's so often the public catch-cry following reality TV shows.

Cupid's aim
Nicky Pellegrino explains how her latest 'love story' could well be something else.

Book Review: <i>Washington: A Life</i>
Commander of the Continental Army which won the American colonies independence from Britain, first president of the United States: there's no doubt George Washington is one of the key figures who shaped the world we live in.

Death still becomes him
The latest offering from Simon Kernick sees the characters of his last six novels meeting for the first time. He tells Stephen Jewell how it happened.

Book Review: <i>Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography</i>
Starman captures only some of pop icon David Bowie's intrigue.

Book lover: Michelle Ang
Actress Michelle Ang, who stars as Emily in the newly released film My Wedding and Other Secrets, shares what she's learnt from being a bookworm.

Remembering to remember
With so many ways of storing data, are we forgetting how to remember? Not according to US writer Joshua Foer, who reveals new and remarkable strategies for memorising. By Robin McKie.

Travel book: <i>Oh Mexico!</i>
Mexico City is notorious for its kidnappings, muggings and other criminal activities so why would a young Australian author choose to live there?

Book Review: <i>The Box</i>
German Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass always weaves some kind of magic through his stories and, in the case of his autobiographical work, this further blurs the demarcation line between his facts and his fictions.

Book Review: <i>Love And War In The Apennines</i>
It was 1956 and Eric Newby, the man who would become one of Britain's most admired travel writers, was stuck in a fitting room with a designer, a model and a lady with a mouth full of pins.

A city perfect for dreamers and killers
Thriller writer Robert Crais talks to Craig Sisterson about the allure of Hollywood and turning an enigmatic sidekick into a leading man.

Book lover: Michelle Langstone
Actress Michelle Langstone shares her secrets as a bookworm.

Book Review: <i>Me and Mr Booker</i>
Stories of young, attractive women desperately trying to escape their small-town roots by allowing themselves to be seduced by older, apparently more worldly men, are not new.

Tales of Turkey (+recipe)
Kiwi chef Leanne Kitchen's latest cookbook celebrates the many flavours of Turkey, as well as its culinary history.

Michele Hewitson Interview: Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey, Lord Archer, to the photographer: "Isn't she awful?" Me, to the photographer: "Isn't he awful?"