Books: A love letter to New York
Porochista Khakpour's new novel is a magical realist take on 9/11.
Porochista Khakpour's new novel is a magical realist take on 9/11.
Jodi Picoult has written 23 novels, eight of them No 1 bestsellers. Just don’t call her work ‘women’s fiction’, says Bryony Gordon.
When a computer virus hacks into the Australian prison system in 2010, it also infects the American corporations that licensed the software.
The quintessential guide book for the scene of New Zealand's most significant war effort covers everything you need to know about the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Mussolini hated pasta and Hitler, famously a vegetarian, liked to eat baby pigeons. A new book tells us what tyrants liked for tea. John Walsh reports.
Linda Herrick delves into four new cookbooks that transport the palate around the globe.
With the national carrier entering its 75th year, here's a wee stocking-filler for the sky-gawping plane nerd in your life.
"Short stories don't sell," is the current mantra of publishers everywhere, as a way of refusing to look at proffered manuscripts in case they love them and are sorely tempted.
Some Luck is the first volume of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley’s trilogy set in the Iowa badlands. Boyd Tonkin reports.
Changing fortunes in Tudor times have ring of reality.
INTERACTIVE: Our annual guide to the best books to give and receive this Christmas. Guess which ones made the list.
Each year American novelist Richard Ford heads to Ireland to shoot woodcock. Robert McCrum joins him on the Irish coast.
Comic book artist Ant Sang talks to David Larsen about his ‘transformational journey’
The conversation turns to how to end the world when David Larsen talks to writer Jo Walton.
Meetings with prize-winning authors form the basis for new satire, writes Stephen Jewell.