Hmmmmmm. And, well, hmmmmmm again. This is the twelfth outing for the little southern-fried telepath who has inspired the fantastic and fangtastic Alan Ball-directed and written True Blood series on HBO (which is about to commence its fifth series in the US – my download finger is poised and...

I am a massive fan of Jeffrey Eugenides; my friends and family who saw me reading his previous releases will know that I had a big fat ‘do not disturb unless the Apocalypse is in full swing’ sign on my head when I was knee deep in doomed love and dealing with an amazingly difficult...

Generation Kill is based on a series of Rolling Stone magazine editorials that were published almost in real time with the commencement of the Iraq War in 2003. Evan Wright, the journalist who wrote the articles, then turned them into this book – and then HBO made the astoundingly good...

When Canberra author, Tania McCartney, discovered she’d be moving her husband, self and two kids under the age of five to China for four years, she was 95 per cent horrified. What she never expected was to fall in love. Beijing seeped under her skin and grabbed hold of her heart … a love...

This is the book that has divided the US. It has broken sales records. It has purportedly made women want to have sex with their husbands more – a lot more in some cases. The question is – why? And is the hype justified? Kate takes a look inside this very controversially themed...

Warning: JoJo Moyes is not one for the easy fix.  She is a realist of the first order.  Her books are lyrical, full of warmth, heart and feeling – but she writes with her eyes wide open and a clear voice.  Bear this in mind before you start this book, because if you haven’t read ‘The...