Out with vampires, in with other-worldy romance, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

When I picked up my October feature book, The Cat's Table, I recalled a radio interview I had once heard with New York Sun columnist Lenore Skenazy.

Radio personality and bibliophile Lily Richards tells her story to Viva.

Crooner Rod Stewart will “hold nothing back” in his autobiography.

"Life is hard" is one of the Noble Truths and Yang Pao, as a young boy landing on the streets of Jamaica in the 1930s, learns that lesson quickly.

In the opening pages of Michael Ondaatje's new novel, a young boy named Michael sets out for England on a passenger liner. It's the early 1950s.

Bronwyn Sell turns to the bookies to help her decide what to read and comes up with The Sense of an Ending.

A decade after it opened, the rail trail has become - to use an overworked phrase - a New Zealand tourist icon.

In an uncharacteristic fit of efficiency, I started reading my September feature book, Rules of Civility, on the same day I finished my August novel, There But For There.

British author Stef Penney tells Christian House about moving the setting for her second novel from the Canadian wilderness to a sinister England.

Constructed in the manner of ensemble films such as Nashville, Grand Canyon and Crash, this novel by the award-winning Australian writer Carroll again refracts the lives of some characters who have populated his previous work.

In 1967 the great critic Frank Kermode published The Sense Of An Ending, a series of lectures that not only mined the apocalyptic theme in art, but reviewed the ways in which fiction carves order and pattern out of the chaotic flux of time.

When I finished The Story of Beautiful Girl I felt like I needed a lie down.

Adults hacked off with the disappointment of modern life seek solace in children's books, a Cambridge University believes.

Next month sees the announcement of the year's most anticipated literary award, the Man Booker Prize.

I'm loving Rules of Civility by debut New York novelist Amor Towles. And I love the influences he's shared with us in our Q&A.

What kind of historical novelist is Barry Unsworth? Despite his practised ear for the idioms of the mid-18th century drawing-room, and weather eye for the contents of the era's wardrobe, he is not a pasticheur.

Stephen Jewell talks to New Zealand writer Pip Ballantine about why she went to the United States and the good manners of sci-fi followers.

More an exercise in global warming propaganda than anything else, really, though the photos of endangered beauty spots are certainly stunning.

A writer fills in the gaps in his family's dubious past, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Penny Vincenzi is a bestselling UK author whose new novel The Decision (Headline, $36.99) has just been released.

A family history. Also a social and intellectual history, and a different take on the Australian Dream.