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Fiction Addiction: Amor Towles Q&A

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.

Book Review: The Quality Of Mercy

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.

Travel book: 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear

More an exercise in global warming propaganda than anything else, really, though the photos of endangered beauty spots are certainly stunning.

Book Review: After Romulus

Pip Ballantine: A full head of steam punk

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.

Book lover: Penny Vincenzi

Penny Vincenzi is a bestselling UK author whose new novel <i>The Decision</i> (Headline, $36.99) has just been released.

Book Review: Good Living Street

A family history. Also a social and intellectual history, and a different take on the Australian Dream.

Stefan Merrill Block: Out with the skeletons

A writer fills in the gaps in his family's dubious past, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Pay to move your own shed, fans tell Roald Dahl's family

An appeal for $95,913 to restore Roald Dahl's garden shed has proved a plot twist too fantastical for the writer's fans.

Michael Ondaatje: A divided man

Writer Michael Ondaatje, who won the Booker prize for <i>The English Patient</i>, draws on his own extraordinary life to conjure up evocative tales of displacement. Robert McCrum asks how much reality there is in his fiction.

Hari Kunzru: Embracing structural strangeness

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.

Readers can't wait for latest Murakami

Anita Shreve: Tragic heart of success

Call Anita Shreve's books chick lit at your peril, warns Nicky Pellegrino.

Book Review: Sherry Cracker Gets Normal

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.

Book Review: Small Holes In The Silence

Brother, they want me to write you a review but I’m not going to do it. Another book is out. Your collected works.

Book Review: The Circus Of Ghosts

Book lover: Barbara Ewing

Barbara Ewing is a UK-based Kiwi actress and writer whose most recent novel is <i>The Circus of Ghosts</i>.