In 1967 the great critic Frank Kermode published The Sense Of An Ending, a series of lectures that not only mined the apocalyptic theme in art, but reviewed the ways in which fiction carves order and pattern out of the chaotic flux of time.
When I finished The Story of Beautiful Girl I felt like I needed a lie down.
Adults hacked off with the disappointment of modern life seek solace in children's books, a Cambridge University believes.
Next month sees the announcement of the year's most anticipated literary award, the Man Booker Prize.
I'm loving Rules of Civility by debut New York novelist Amor Towles. And I love the influences he's shared with us in our Q&A.
What kind of historical novelist is Barry Unsworth? Despite his practised ear for the idioms of the mid-18th century drawing-room, and weather eye for the contents of the era's wardrobe, he is not a pasticheur.
More an exercise in global warming propaganda than anything else, really, though the photos of endangered beauty spots are certainly stunning.
Stephen Jewell talks to New Zealand writer Pip Ballantine about why she went to the United States and the good manners of sci-fi followers.
Penny Vincenzi is a bestselling UK author whose new novel The Decision (Headline, $36.99) has just been released.
A family history. Also a social and intellectual history, and a different take on the Australian Dream.
A writer fills in the gaps in his family's dubious past, writes Nicky Pellegrino.
What can the latest film of Jane Eyre add to the story's long history on screen? Gerard Gilbert reports.
Let your tastebuds travel with a cookbook that celebrates the seasonal foods of Italy.
Rachel Simon was browsing through a book stall at a conference in Itasca, Illinois, when she found herself drawn to a short book with an arresting title: God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24, by Dave Bakke.
I'm sure the person who coined the phrase "a picture paints a thousand words" thought a thousand words sounded like a lot. But a single picture can paint - or at least inspire - far more words than that.
An appeal for $95,913 to restore Roald Dahl's garden shed has proved a plot twist too fantastical for the writer's fans.
British writer Hari Kunzru tells Stephen Jewell why he has adopted America as his base and why sci-fi readers are more open to the unusual.
Writer Michael Ondaatje, who won the Booker prize for The English Patient, draws on his own extraordinary life to conjure up evocative tales of displacement. Robert McCrum asks how much reality there is in his fiction.
Call Anita Shreve's books chick lit at your peril, warns Nicky Pellegrino.
Cute titles. How do I feel about cute titles? I feel that the authors have to work a couple of degrees harder to justify them. New Zealand-born, Britain-based Connell works very hard indeed in her second romp - and with reasonable success.
Brother, they want me to write you a review but I’m not going to do it. Another book is out. Your collected works.
Barbara Ewing is a UK-based Kiwi actress and writer whose most recent novel is The Circus of Ghosts.
Who are we really? What's beyond the façade the rest of the world gets to see? How can we communicate without a voice?
Doctor-turned-suspense novelist Tess Gerritsen talks to Craig Sisterson about embracing her heritage and seeing her heroines come alive onscreen.