Carroll du Chateau talks to writer James McNeish about the people who fuelled his memoir.

How did an erotic novel become the best-selling paperback of all time? Carroll du Chateau looks into the publishing phenomenon taking the world by storm.

Australia's answer to Anthony Bourdain has no shortage of raw ingredients.

Danielle Wright delves into the zine sub-culture, where she discovers underground publications about everything from neighbourhood cats to the joys of the photocopier.

An exhibition by eight LA artists gives a broad impression of contemporary styles

Chris Cleave’s novels closely shadow real-life events. He tells Stephen Jewell how his latest, Gold, about two female athletes competing at the Olympics, almost suffered a major technical setback.

A young student has reportedly uncovered four previously unknown stories by New Zealand literary great Katherine Mansfield.

What we want, finds Nicky Pellegrino, is often different from what we get.

British writer Kate Summerscale explains to Stephen Jewell how her journalistic background helped her investigate a Victorian divorce.

Jodi Picoult had an ideal co-author on a new book - her teenage daughter, finds Nicky Pellegrino.

Damien Brown's first book offers a humble, sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing account of one man's experiences of the realities of aid work.

Last year we spent almost $12 million on food and wine books. Dionne Christian asks what it is about cookbooks that turns some of us into addicts.

Whangarei's centre does away with the staid image of art, writes Jim Eagles.