Writer and former jockey Dick Francis, famous for his horse racing-based crime novels, has died aged 89.

Terry Pratchett's alternate world as seen in the latest National Theatre film offering has a Kiwi tang.

Giving up smoking is one of the easiest things a person can do.

Damien Wilkins' previous novel, The Fainter, was the work of a writer committed to refreshing the page not for the sake of revolution.

The worlds of climate change and steamy sex collide ... and a classic is born.

Celebrated author JD Salinger spoke to readers in his own special way.

Greg Dixon looks back on 10 years of terror, pointless technology, cultural decline and bad TV.

Marina Endicott witnessed a two-car collision that provided the starting point for Good to a Fault, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the Canada and Caribbean region.

Samoan writer Lani Wendt Young has been commissioned to take down the stories of hundreds of people affected by the Pacific tsunami.

If you had been in Venice just over a year ago and gone to see the elegant Bridge of Sighs, you would have had an unpleasant surprise.