Sales pitch: 'I want to write a book that is a sort of summary of a wilfully ambiguous science fiction movie made by a Russian director more than 30 years ago.'

Recently, while sitting in the airport lounge in Sydney waiting for a flight home, I glanced up from my hardcover book and surveyed the other travellers in my immediate vicinity.

The Office star Mackenzie Crook adds another string to his creative bow with a children's book. He tells Stephen Jewell how the idea came to him.

Oscar Kightley shares insight on his ventures into the world of literature.

In an age where the care of ourselves has become a religion Alice Hoffman’s book presents an almost-forgotten way of life.

This is such a clever idea for a novel that it's a wonder no one has thought of it before.

I thought this might be too sad to read.

This book is full of information about what to look out for when buying or renting a motorhome.

I hate calling a book “charming”, but Christopher Morgan’s narrative deserves the adjective.

Nora Roberts is one of the world’s best-selling authors. However, the literary establishment has mostly been indifferent to her success.

UK author Paul Torday opens up about what she's flipped through as a book lover.

Nicky Pellegrino feels let down by an Aussie thriller that needs oomph.

There's a Mills & Boon romance novel sold every four seconds. Danielle Wright ventures into the surprisingly studious world of romance writing to meet some of the unpublished hopefuls waiting for their lucky break.

Here are our picks for February.

The publishing year has cranked up in earnest and the bookshops are beginning to fill with rows of tempting new reads, many of them debuts. Here are our picks for February.

The Auschwitz Violin features an extraordinary moment in the life of Daniel, a Jewish violin-maker imprisoned at Auschwitz.

Edmund White has spoken repeatedly of his crawling conviction as a boy and young man that being homosexual was “bad”.

In this book are a dozen short stories that will take you only a couple of hours to read but far longer to forget.

Shorty St actress Pearl McGlashan opens up about what she's flipped through as a book lover.

According to Claire Tomalin, his latest biographer, children no longer have the attention span to read Dickens. The author was born on February 7, 200 years ago.

E-books are a threat to justice and responsible self-government. Apparently. And here’s naïve old me thinking they were just convenient tools for reading escapist novels.

A new book has found total tax rates on the incomes of rich New Zealanders are now...