Eowyn Ivey's daring début novel will be hard to follow, notes Nicky Pellegrino.

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.

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 Danielle Wright ventures into the surprisingly studious world of romance writing to meet some of the unpublished hopefuls waiting for their lucky break.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.

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...

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.