E-reader competition is hotting up.

Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
Bloomsbury $40

Janet Evanovich fans love her addictive combo of comedy, romance and adventure.

I no longer want to live. I'm dying already. You are too. Every breath we take brings us closer to it.

A university researcher has written an academic paper on the social acceptability of vampires, now seen as an "everyman with fangs".

The sort of book that makes you want to sell up everything and flee to the sunshine of the Dodecanese islands.

A look at the rise of Jane Austen fan fiction.

This year the Montana NZ Book Awards have become the NZ Post Book Awards, with fewer categories and smaller shortlists.

The German Pontiff's favourite recipes are a suicidal mix of fried, buttery and carnivorous pleasures.

Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart
Fig Tree, $26.99

Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.

This book does contain all the practical information you'd need to walk the tracks but really it's more a source of inspiration

It's hard to pin down Jane Smiley's style as each new book is so different from the last.