EntertainmentBook review: Gilliamesque, Terry GilliamTerry Gilliam is the odd man out of the Python squad, the warm and loose American among uptight Englishmen. Yet he may be the team's secret weapon.11 Dec 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Public Library and other stories, Ali SmithT.S. Eliot once wrote that the critic's job was to "exhibit the relations of literature - not to 'life', as something contrasted to literature, but to all the other activities, which, together with literature, are the components of life".11 Dec 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Beatlebone, Kevin BarryAuthor Kevin Barry's latest novel Beatlebone delves into the mind of John Lennon as he seeks the solitude of a tiny Irish island that he bought for 1700 pounds in 1968.08 Dec 09:13 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Vivid - The Paul Hartigan StoryAlthough Paul Hartigan's art has roamed from pop-art painting and posters, to Polaroids and beyond, his neon work is the most familiar.27 Nov 10:17 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Best New Writing On ... Arrival, John FreemanJohn Freeman shot to international fame with his contentious 2009 book <i>Shrinking the World: The 4000-Year Story Of How Email Came To Rule Our Lives</i>.21 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Going South, Colin HoggThere's no easy way to find out that an old mate has terminal cancer but reading a book about it has got to be one of the most moving.20 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Pacific - The Once and Future Ocean, Simon WinchesterWill the Pacific save us? In his biography of an ocean, Simon Winchester finds an optimistic note among all the doom we humans trail in our wake.20 Nov 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Undermajordomo Minor, Patrick DeWittThe style of the narrative can best be described as a darkly comic fairy tale. All the familiar tropes are there; jilted hero, beautiful damsel, dark castle,mysterious forest and a collection of untrustworthy characters who mean our hero no good.19 Nov 08:45 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Submission by Michel HouellebecqYou'll go a long way to find a more complex character than French writer Michel Houellebecq. He has attracted (and courted) controversy throughout his literary career.15 Nov 01:15 AM
EntertainmentBook review: Golden Age, Jane SmileyBill Bryson famously came from Iowa ("Somebody had to"). So do the farming dynasty of Jane Smiley's now-completed trilogy.30 Oct 04:00 PM
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
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
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
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
