Alas, this this is the second-to-last novel from the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner from whom I have gained so much enjoyment and stimulus over the past few years.

A book that poses the really big questions: about war and friendship, about love and loss, about living and dying.

It’s not often that you get a book endorsed by both Philip Pullman and Winston Churchill. But then, Conan Doyle’s French cavalry officer has been around for nearly 120 years, and has been read by five or six generations.

Compulsory cringe binge Parks and Recreation's Amy Poehler shows no mercy in her painfully revealing portrayal of a babbling small-time bureaucrat. By Deborah Hill Cone.

The Smoke Fairies are best mates Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies who met in the school choir in rural Sussex.

This second annual Griffith fiction collection focuses on contributors and topics from the Pacific in a generously interpreted sense.

The arguments are over and the votes are in - here's the albums TimeOut reviewers consider the year's best.

Rating: 3.5. Verdict: Dazzling reboot with story blips

Rating: 3.5/5. Verdict: King of Pop crown regains lustre, too late.

Rating: 3.5/5. Verdict: Lost in Los Angeles.

It was an introduction Uwe Grodd could not resist, before launching Auckland Choral's annual Messiah.

What: The Fall Where and when: Powerstation Reviewed by: Scott Kara