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Finding a sticking point

<i>Preview:</i> Nation at Rialto Newmarket

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

Coffee offers gateway to the soul, says book

Germans struggle with Hitler manifesto

<i>Noelle McCarthy:</i> Job means taking rough with smooth

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Director Chris Columbus, responsible for the first two <i>Harry Potter</i> films, returns to the world of teenage fantasy adventures.

Food for thought

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

Exuberant trawl through the senses

This collection of essays came together by chance.

Communicating on many levels

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

<i>Kerre Woodham</i>: Pure mathematics will weaken reading levels

Literary juggernaut first among equals

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

Truth and consequences

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

Recluse wrote for his own pleasure

The good, the bad and the brilliant

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

Survivors tell author tsunami nightmares

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

My run-in with Keith Murdoch

A glimpse of an imaginary city of gold

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.

Vampires take $10m book bite