It is a tricky little bugger of a book this one. Distant, confusing and perhaps a little cliched in parts, it is also compelling, subtle and maybe even brilliant.

Judge not a book by its title.

Israeli David Grossman tells Helen Brown how writing helps him cope with grief.

Melbourne restaurant Red Spice Road has released a cookbook modernising age-old Asian dishes.

The book that has everything, Kehua! offers murder, adultery, incest (and plenty of it), redemption and ghosts.

With this review I want to declare two biases. I am a big fan of Laurence Fearnley’s writing and particularly loved Edwin + Matilda.

Moose were released in Westland in 1900 and in Fiordland in 1910 but unlike other such introductions they were not a success.

Simon Pegg had no plans to become a movie star. In fact he had no plans at all. So just how did the geek from Gloucester catch the eye of the world's best film-makers? It's all down to 'quantum attraction', discovers Tom Lamont.

Architects spend their working lives designing for the desires of their clients. A new book by John Walsh looks at what happens when they can please themselves. Rebecca Barry talks to the author. Pictures by Patrick Reynolds.

Toni Jordan's novels resist convenient labels, but that's exactly how the ex-scientist likes it.

There's more to writing a love story than one might think. Rebecca Barry meets aspiring and published authors of the booming romance genre.

Tania Anderson is a member of gospel supergroup Jubilation Choir.

A professor nominates the 200 books that will teach you more than you will learn at University.

Fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson tells David Larsen how a dragon on a book cover lured him back to reading and changed the path of his life.

From the Sharpe books to Arthurian sagas, the prolific output of Bernard Cornwell has topped best-seller lists around the world. The secret is in the plot, he tells Robert McCrum.

Learn how to make the perfect pav and then shake things up with some twists on the traditional.

Martin Bosley's new cookbook means his incredible dishes are yours to sample from the comfort of home.