The official Harry Potter website has let the first lot of fans into its online realm. Harriet Walker was one.

The force behind Soul Bar, Judith Tabron, marks its 10 year anniversary with the release of a new cookbook.

This was supposed to be the blog in which the author of There But For The answered all the questions that you so carefully crafted for her.

Nicky Pellegrino speaks to a man who sees a bright future for felony.

If somebody locks himself in a stranger's spare room for months, is he escaping the world or facing up to it?

Giant George may be the world’s tallest dog — 1.5m tall and 2m long — but his owner, Dave Nasser, says he’s a big softie.

The movie will be out soon but read the book first, says Nicky Pellegrino.

Hana Schofield is the co-author of the best-selling memoir, Goodbye Sarajevo.

Joyce Carol Oates, a prolific and award-winning writer, has assembled and revised a collection of essays and reviews that originally appeared in places such as the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.

The most important skill a photographer can have is learning to see: the beautiful in the bland and the interesting in the immaterial.

This outstanding transcription of extraordinary events carries a telling subtitle: "A Novel of a Life".

We still know little for sure about the prospects for intelligent fiction in a digital age. Yet most observers agree that the status of the professional "career novelist" may shift from that of a rare species to a deeply endangered one.

Lady Gaga's forthcoming pictorial book will include images of her in the shower.

Model, film star, now writer: Grace Coddington is set to tell all in her memoirs.

New Zealand writer Tim Radford tells Stephen Jewell why his new book about roots defies genre and how reading Moby Dick can affect one’s sense of place.

Had Robert Hughes continued with his original aim of being an artist rather than becoming possibly the best-known art critic in the world it is a safe bet he would not have been a miniaturist.

When, in 1946, Bobby Troup wrote what became his classic song, Route 66, he could hardly have anticipated how popular it would become.