EntertainmentBook review: The Porcelain Thief, Huan HsuThe Porcelain Thief describes Hsu's search for it, which, of course, necessitated his taking a job with a wealthy uncle in Shanghai and learning the language and customs of his ancestral home.16 Oct 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: I'll Never Write My Memoirs, Grace JonesIt's not at all easy to talk about Grace Jones - disco queen, new waver, Bond villain, diva, android, androgyne - as if she is a real person.16 Oct 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Secret War, Max HastingsThis is Hastings' first sortie into the secret world as he puts the codebreakers' achievements in context by measuring them against competing sources of secret intelligence.09 Oct 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: From The Cutting Room Of Barney Kettle, Kate De GoldiThis is a cross-over novel of "stories within stories within stories". We're told at the start it's written by a supine, seriously-injured survivor of some major disaster.09 Oct 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBooks: Recent releases October 4Margaret Atwood takes a playful look at human failings.03 Oct 11:18 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Trifecta, Ian WeddeThe typically demotic title introduces three world-soiled siblings, children of a dangerously attractive and totally untrustworthy refugee from Nazism who's credited with making New Zealand aware of real coffee and really modern buildings.02 Oct 04:00 PM
Entertainment'Everything lands me in trouble' - Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie has written his funniest novel in years - but beneath the jokes lies an uncomfortable truth, discovers Gaby Wood.02 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman RushdieThe tone of Salman Rushdie's latest novel is like a chocolate with a nut centre, beguilingly sweet on the outside but with a hard core.02 Oct 04:00 PM
TravelBook review: Wild Roads - A New Zealand Journey, Bruce AnsleyAuthor Bruce Ansley cherishes pointing his car along New Zealand's highways and roads.01 Oct 05:00 PM
Entertainment'Stale excrement' book reviewMorrissey's debut novel has been slated as an "unpolished turd of a book".24 Sep 09:11 PM
TravelBook review: Lonely Planet's Ultimate TravelistYou can't beat a good list - and a good bit of travel bragging. Lonely Planet knows it, and this is their contribution to the debate, writes Winston Aldworth.02 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBooks: Recent releases August 29As adulthood gels carefree youth drains away.29 Aug 10:35 PM
EntertainmentBooks: Recent releases August 23Even razor-sharp detectives grow old and slow down.23 Aug 02:27 AM
EntertainmentBook review: The Fish Ladder, Katharine NorburyFish ladders are structures that Britons began building in the 19th century when they started damming and blocking waterways.21 Aug 04:50 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Whispering Swarm, Michael MoorcockThere are too many Michael Moorcocks. I don't mean the books - although there are a bewildering number of those, there could never be too many for his admirers.21 Aug 04:50 PM
EntertainmentBook review: James Cook's Lost World, Graeme LayIn this final volume of Graeme Lay's fictional trilogy on the life of James Cook, we confront a very different man to the legend or, for that matter, the first two books in the series.21 Aug 04:50 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Seveneves, Neal StephensonLike every other book of Stephenson's, this one uses formal language to position itself a small, strategic distance from its readers, like a speaker standing behind a lectern.14 Aug 04:50 PM
