A university researcher has written an academic paper on the social acceptability of vampires, now seen as an "everyman with fangs".

The sort of book that makes you want to sell up everything and flee to the sunshine of the Dodecanese islands.

A look at the rise of Jane Austen fan fiction.

This year the Montana NZ Book Awards have become the NZ Post Book Awards, with fewer categories and smaller shortlists.

The German Pontiff's favourite recipes are a suicidal mix of fried, buttery and carnivorous pleasures.

Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart
Fig Tree, $26.99

Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.

This book does contain all the practical information you'd need to walk the tracks but really it's more a source of inspiration

It's hard to pin down Jane Smiley's style as each new book is so different from the last.

Plenty of buzz in the publishing world surrounds this sprawling, post-apocalyptic novel that's being heralded as one of the year's big releases.

The good news for Stieg Larsson addicts: two unpublished manuscripts have been unearthed in his native Sweden.

Trail riding is increasing in popularity in New Zealand.

A vivid portrait of a time and a place, I can see exactly why UK author Amanda Craig's sixth novel was longlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.