A decade after his explosive memoir, Kitchen Confidential laid bare the underbelly of the restaurant scene, Anthony Bourdain is back for a second helping. He talks to food writer and critic Jay Rayner.

"In what other industry would you be expected to take options that cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars?"

E-reader competition is hotting up.

Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
Bloomsbury $40

Janet Evanovich fans love her addictive combo of comedy, romance and adventure.

A university researcher has written an academic paper on the social acceptability of vampires, now seen as an "everyman with fangs".

The sort of book that makes you want to sell up everything and flee to the sunshine of the Dodecanese islands.

A look at the rise of Jane Austen fan fiction.

The German Pontiff's favourite recipes are a suicidal mix of fried, buttery and carnivorous pleasures.

Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart
Fig Tree, $26.99

Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.