The good, the bad and the bookish

Guido Guerrieri has come through the worst experience of his life – the end of his marriage – and is still recovering. He’s sleep-walking th...

Finn O’Farrell’s never been happy with herself – flat-chested, tubby, uninteresting hair, it’s no wonder her boyfriend left her. Well, she a...

For the past forty years Mr Chesney has dominated everything - the annual tours he brings through from the mundane world have been bigger, m...

Eat, Pray, Love tells the story of writer Elizabeth Gilbert's year off, recovering from the aftermath of a divorce that began with sadne...

Foodie Terry Durack's collected a handful of columns (written for publications as diverse as the Sydney Morning Herald to Vogue Enterta...

It only took Peter Houghton nineteen minutes to shoot up his school, killing eight students and two teachers and permanently scarring the wh...

It’s a post July 7 world, and Yorkshire’s as affected by the new levels of security and surveillance as anywhere else in Britain. So when th...

What shifts a trend from being on the fringes to mainstream? Why do equally virulent flu strains sometimes become epidemic? How can a commun...

Dr Tony Hill, quirky and brilliant psychologist/profiler, is recovering in hospital after a more than usually dangerous encounter with a psy...

Melbourne geek girl Lissa Wilson’s managed to find a comfortable routine in her adult life that was missing from her childhood – her beloved...

Harris Creek is the Earth’s Xenosapient Facilitator – when the State Department needs bad news broken to a non-human member of the Common Co...

When Nick Madrid, yoga-practicing journalist and reluctant investigator, accompanies his friend Bridget Frost to a university reunion he com...

Renowned cookery writer Elizabeth David, who transformed the face of British cooking, wrote a regular column for Vogue, and some of these ar...

When the Nips hit Pearl Harbor and the boys shipped out, dames got opportunities they nevah woulda had otherwise. That’s how Faye Quick, a P...

Tracey's heart-broken - her gorgeous actor boyfriend, Will, has left New York to spend the summer working on his craft - summer stock, a...

The final part of the Fell trilogy involves Fell in a decades-old mystery linked to a graduate of the Gardner School, involving the disappe...

Thanks to the lessons of his father, a detective who died the previous year, Fell knew as soon as the body of Lasher's body was found at...

John Fell's life was turned upside down the summer he fell in love with Helen Keating (aka Keats) - her rich father may not have approve...

Librarian and book lover Pearl has divided her favourite and most highly recommended books into some 175 categories, ranging from run of the...

The adored daughter of a widower, Delia Hopkins, has everything she could ever want: a job she enjoys, a daughter she loves and a handsome f...

Lola May Galley's a bareback, one of the 0.6% of the human population born head first. As the result of a birth defect, she does not shi...

This is the first collection of Jeremy Clarkson's weekly column in the Sunday Times , and spans the beginning of 2001 to the end of 2003...

Despite her interest in fashion, Kate McGraw is going to be a doctor. This is because she's interested in the human body and helping peo...

This collection of short essays rotates around food questions - does a meal have to include uniquesly Australian ingredients to qualify as ...

When Giles Dennison wakes up in a hotel room in Oslo, he can't remember how he got there, doesn't recognise the watch on his wrist, ...

Katie Simmons knows she wants to do something with her life, she's just not sure yet what that is. Well, that's not quite true - she...

In a world where lycanthropy is the norm those born without the ability to transform at the full moon are referred to by the derogatory term...

Sal-Afsan, blinded as punishment for daring to contradict the teachings of the church, is gravely wounded when he trips in the street and a ...

Toroca is a geologist, leader of the Geological Survey of the Land, which currently involves the exploration of fossils in a cliff face on t...

Afsan is the seventh apprentice to palace astronomer Tak-Saleed - so far he's last half a kiloday without being fired, a record for appr...