Unsettled teenage thoughts can be gripping, says Nicky Pellegrino.

The post-apocalyptic young adult novel hasn’t yet been released in America, and already the movie rights have been sold, and Twilight producer Karen Rosenfelt has been hired to take it to the big screen.

There's no doubt that a lot of travellers want to feel that they're doing their bit to save the planet.

A rare condition left critic Nick Coleman unable to hear the music he adored. Here, he explains how he learned to listen again.

What an odd book this is.

The movie on Marilyn is out soon, but the book has intrigued Nicky Pellegrino.

Anthony McCarten's sequel to his novel Death of a Superhero charts a grieving family's retreat into the world of computer games. But the implications of teenagers immersed in games of mass murder really worry him

It's much easier to find the motivation to chill out with a glass of red wine or take a bubble bath than it is to pull on your sneakers and work up a sweat. That's where The Grit Doctor comes in.

After a fairly quiet summer, the shelves of the bookshops are filling up with promising new fare.

The world is divided between surfers and those uninterested in being drowned, pulverised, eaten by great whites, or having straw hair. Yes, I know, I know ...

The Year Of The Hare, originally published in 1975, has gone on to sell millions of copies in 18 languages and as two feature films.

How do authors come up with a pen name?

Geraldine Johns asks six of our top chefs what their favourite cookbooks are — the ones that really inspire them — and why.

Paul Torday's novel is set in the stately English countryside where he now lives, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Novelist Jojo Moyes was intrigued by the story of Daniel James, a young man who made headlines when he persuaded his parents to take him to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland for an assisted suicide.

These books skip the boring details about where to find the bus depot and concentrate on things that kids love.

John Walsh reckons the perfect knocking review should be more like an execution than a fist fight - simple and judicious

You too could have a rear end like Pippa Middleton's, thanks to a new book by her pilates coach, released in New Zealand this week.