EntertainmentPoetry Reviews: Breathing on the pageVivienne Plumb's new collection of poetry - beautifully designed by poet and publisher Helen Rickerby - reminds me that poetry books can feel so good in the hand. Plumb's poems have a chance to breathe on the page. 24 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentNew stars of Nordic noirWhy, asks Barry Forshaw, are Scandinavian writers winning worldwide acclaim for their crime?22 Jul 12:00 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Four hot new novelsWe had the world's politest fight over who got first dibs on the most promising of the new novels on our Fiction Fix hot list this month...22 Jul 02:00 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: Goodbye SarajevoSarajevo, in Bosnia, was the perfect city for a siege. Nestled in a valley surrounded by hills, the people below became easy targets.20 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionBook Review: We Are Soldiers Award-winning Sunday Times columnist Danny Danziger made the inspired decision not to write a book about British soldiers, but to let the soldiers tell their own stories. 20 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentJeffery Deaver: Wrestling with the morality of spyingJeffery Deaver tells Stephen Jewell why the new Bond carries an iPhone.19 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff Q&ABoston University journalism professor Mitchell Zuckoff was researching a story about World War II when he came across an article in the Chicago Tribune from June 1945. He was stunned.19 Jul 02:00 AM
TravelEngland: Fine home for a bear of little brainAshdown Forest is one of Britain's many literary haunts, writes Robert McCrum.19 Jul 12:00 AM
TravelTravel book: <i>Marathon</i>Not a travel book as such but just the sort of book I like taking with me when I'm travelling somewhere ... in this case to Greece.18 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook lover: Ray ColumbusKiwi music sensation Ray Columbus recently released his autobiography, <i>The Modfather: life and times of a rock 'n' roll pioneer</i> (Penguin, $42).17 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentDame Fiona Kidman: Present from nation's pastDame Fiona Kidman takes a literary trip through time, writes Nicky Pellegrino.17 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Lost in Shangri-La - a non-fiction addictionThough I'm reading non-fiction for this month's book club - and I read a novel based on a true story last month - I prefer pure fiction.12 Jul 02:00 AM
TravelHow to avoid being killed: A traveller's guideA Middle East-based journalist has penned a book advising travellers how to keep themselves safe in dangerous places.11 Jul 11:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: LowboyLowboy leads us on a dark yet wondrous journey into the strange subterranean world beneath the streets of New York City - and deep inside the chaos of his own unravelling mind.11 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: In A Strange RoomThis haunting, Booker-short-listed novel follows a young South African man identified only as Damon. Yes, just like the author.11 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: The Best Of Young Spanish NovelistsThe 22 Spanish writers in this entertaining collection were all born in or since 1975, the year General Francisco Franco died after 36 years of repressive rule in Spain.10 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentJeffery Deaver's licence to thrill fansJeffery Deaver's 007 is young and modern, writes Nicky Pellegrino.10 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Caleb's CrossingOnce again Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks takes a simple, barely known historical fact, fattens out and brings it to life so lyrically you feel transported back in time.10 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentNalini Singh: Romance meets sci-fiNew Zealand writer Nalini Singh tells Stephen Jewell how she began writing as a teen and never looked back.10 Jul 05:00 PM
Entertainment'I am interested in bad behaviour'Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst is not noted for his prolific output, so a new novel is always a great event. And his latest could be his best yet.08 Jul 09:47 PM
KahuBathed in ancestral lightA new book and exhibition by photographer Fiona Pardington examines the historic - and now derided - practice of taking casts of people's heads to study their brains. Some were her ancestors.08 Jul 09:37 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: The Larnachs - fact or fiction?The historical novel is history-lite, the easiest of entrées into another time and place.08 Jul 02:00 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: <i>Carte Blanche</i>Do you tire of the people who always bang on about how much better the book was than the movie? Well, you can rest easy if this James Bond yarn is ever committed to screen.07 Jul 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Reviews: <i>Sport 39</i> and <i>Landfall 221</i>James K. Baxter wrote once (I paraphrase from lapsed memory and lost book) that most authors like to picture their words being read by grave scholars in studies and beautiful graduates in tutorials. 06 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Introducing 'Lost in Shangri-La'There are two kinds of readers - those who peek at the last page and those who wouldn't dream of it.05 Jul 02:00 AM
