Spoiler alert for Bridget Jones fans and tissues at the ready...

Muskan Devta admits she sometimes talks too much. She also writes a lot and can often be found hunkered down with a good book at the library.

Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo talks to Jake Kerridge about his latest Harry Hole novel and his fascination with what makes ordinary people do evil things.

Bring me all the Stephen King novels in the land. Yes, all of them. I know, I know. I'll build a new bookcase. I'll buy a bigger house.

NoViolet Bulawayo was born in Zimbabwe, a year after the country gained independence from British rule.

From the author of Eat, Pray, Love comes a remarkable new novel - a total deviation from Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 bestseller, although just as likely to become a chart-topper.

No sooner does Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook hit the shops, than the Naked Chef goes and says something which whips up a frenzy.

Since the novel Puberty Blues first scandalised the complacent Australian middle classes in 1979, there have been a couple of updates.

The smartest young writer anyone is ever likely to have coffee with is cosily wrapped in a knitted jumper against the spring freshness.

As a coming-of-age story, this first novel by a young Australian writer would alarm those who leaped to condemn Ted Dawe's Into The River, which recently won this country's Young Adult Fiction award.

Talent and hard work are important but chance plays a big part, economist Tim Harford tells David Larsen.

The book will be entitled Santiago, The Dreamer in the Land Among the Stars and will be released on November 14 simultaneously in Spanish and English.

The creators of Kiwi comic anthology Faction aren't in it for fortune and glory - they just want to get their comics out into the world.

Kylee Guy's sister has dismissed a new book about the 2010 murder of her brother-in-law Scott Guy.

Novelist Liz Jensen’s latest genre-bending novel, The Uninvited, is a modern ghost story that touches on bigger issues affecting the planet, she tells Arifa Akbar.

Consumer Alert: this novel has nothing to do with the Olympics - except for one thing I'll mention later.

Copies of The Luminaries, the New Zealand novel short-listed this week for the Man Booker Prize, are flying off the shelves.

The painful end of Stephen Hawking's first marriage, and the bitter acrimony of his second, have been described in detail by the Cambridge cosmologist for the first time in his autobiography.

Parental oversharing has become commonplace thanks to social media. Emma Rowley meets the controversial blogger telling proud mums and dads to put a lid on it.

Based in New York, British writer Patrick McGrath has published seven novels and two short-story collections.

He's a contender, Carl Nixon. He's an acclaimed playwright, has won significant awards for his short stories and he's come close with his novels, too

In fictionalising Thomas Hardy’s life, Damien Wilkins discovers some outrageous truths, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.

Kiwi technology firm Booktrack is seeking to "ride the self-publishing wave" and has worked with Google to launch a web-based studio where users can add their own soundtrack to novels, short stories or even blog posts.