The good, the bad and the bookish

The subtitle tells you all you need to know: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back . Indeed, When ...

Notorious, experimental chef Heston Blumenthal, renown for creations like snail porridge and bacon & egg ice-cream, has turned his hand ...

Elizabeth is a foster child in New York – she and her foster sister Alexi live with and work for Sandra, who ensures they generate an income...

When Sylvia Compton, owner of Elm Creek Manor and lifelong quilter, is shown a quilt that may have been part of the Underground Railway, she...

From the back of the book- This is the story of a quest, a search for a place that is not meant to exist. The elect who have been allowed to...

Subtitled Why More is Less: How the Culture of Abundance Robs Us of Satisfaction , this interesting text explores the common perception that...

On April 21st 2009, particle physicist Lloyd Simcoe and his partner Theo Procopides initiated an experiment two years in the making – they w...

In 1973 Nancy Friday published a groundbreaking text, My Secret Garden , a collection of women’s sexual fantasies that revealed women could ...

Rhonda Farr was hypnotised by the scene before her, or at least that’s what she told herself later. How else could she explain watching a si...

When five women meet for the first time at Elm Creek Manor they anticipate a week of quilting - consolidation for some of them, a new learni...

Auden has always known what her parents expect from her – older brother Hollis is wild and untamed, but Auden is reliable and well behaved, ...

When a young boy dies falling from the tower of a ruined castle the question of accident or suicide is raised. But his recently retired poli...

Elm Creek Manor has become known as a great retreat for quilters new and experienced - women come from all around the US to spend a week foc...

The Bagthorpes are back, in full competition mode - when Uncle Parker wins a Carribean family holiday by creating a fairly average advertisi...

Nicola and Charlie have been together since they met in the US during a student exchange program - both from the UK, they bonded over simila...

A woman falls in love with an artist, and although their stations in life preclude a relationship between them, she feels duty bound to admi...

Jamie Carcaterra's in her senior year, an aspiring journalist, and fat. Not a little pudgy, seriously fat. And she's fine with that ...

Jack is the youngest of the Bagthorpes, and the least talented - all his siblings have several Strings to their Bows, ranging from photograp...

Sarah McClure was frustrated by her inability to get work in any field but accounting - regardless of what position she went for, as soon as...

From her first freshman day at her new school, when she was mistaken for a boy and didn't correct her homeroom teacher, everyone knew th...

The third installment in the Dance to the Music of Time sequence brings narrator Nicholas Jenkins to the 1930's. He has his fortune rea...

At a party to celebrate her divorce, a woman is given a voodoo doll of her husband as a joke gift. Egged on by her friends she sticks a pin ...

Rudi Mackenzie, tanist of the Clan Mackenzie and leader of a band of travellers bound together through adversity and all manner of kinship t...

As everyone knows, the Western world is apparently in the midst of an obesity epidemic that threatens to make this generation of children th...

America's CIA is of overwhelming significance to a select, small but significant number of Americans, even though many outside that coun...

When chef David Nicholls' son was paralysed during an accident on Bondi Beach, he decided to raise funds for spinal research by asking h...

A young woman tries to escape her sullied past by taking a job as a maid in lonely house outside Edinburgh. She is fascinated by her beautif...

Inspired by famed French food writer and chef Brillat- Savarin's oft quoted observation that a the true food lover is one who manages to...

Through a series of anonymous letters we get a glimpse into a year in the life of a high-school boy. We see his struggle to make new friends...

While researching for her latest book a biblical scholar is shown part of a document supposedly written by James, brother of Jesus, shortly ...