Caitlyn Jenner is releasing a memoir about her transition from male to female.

Do you stand out from the crowd. A new book details how you can.

"Tell me what you eat," said the French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1825, "and I'll tell you what you are."

She's best known to the world as a writer of Indian food books, however, as Madhur Jaffrey tells Michele Kayal, her first love is the theatre.

For 70 years, the reprinting of Adolf Hitler's autobiography was prohibited in Germany because of fears it could be used as right-wing propaganda

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Guide to the Japanese Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo has to be one of the most useful books ever written, Paul Little writes.

Sinclair McKay is enthralled by superb histories that chart mankind's flirtation with global disaster.

If you love Game of Thrones, don't nag George R.R. Martin to finish the books, writes Alyssa Rosenberg.

WATCH: Declutter guru Marie Kondo's magic tricks will help you tidy up your life - and improve your folding.

The eagerly anticipated sixth Game of Thrones novel won't be released before the sixth HBO series airs in April, but Martin has left spoilers about what we can expect.

Eleanor Catton married her long-time partner Steven Toussaint today.

Agatha Christie loved taking everyday items and turning them into instruments of death.

Digital outreach librarian Baruk Jacob set up Auckland Libraries' new 'Maker Spaces'.

J.K. Rowling has said she "loves" the fact that Hermione Granger will be played by a black actress in the highly anticipated new Harry Potter play.

If you're not sure what to get Dad this Christmas, Andrew Alderson has a few ideas of the literary kind.

Terry 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.

T.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".

Disney has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming film The BFG.

Author 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.

The best books for the foodie on your Christmas list.

The summer holidays are for swimming and playing in the sun but parents should add another activity to their kids' agenda - reading.

Parents, we report, are being urged to read to their kids over the holidays, or ensure they keep reading, to maintain their mental development.

Bad sex. Isn't it enough to have had it without having to read it as well?

Andrew Miller tells Tim Martin about the 'terrifying' rut he fell into after winning the Costa Book of the Year.

It's not every day you see people running around a field with a broomstick between their legs.