Bruce Springsteen's song lyrics have injected more drama and mystery into the myths of the American road than any figure since Jack Kerouac. He knows this, of course. So it's one of the running jokes in his big, loose, rangy and intensely satisfying new memoir, Born to Run (what else was he going to call it?), that he didn't begin to drive until he was well into his 20s.

Author Paula Hawkins agrees with fans that Emily Blunt is 'too beautiful' to play the book's overweight, alcoholic divorcee, Rachel.

One of Christopher Robin's favourite stuffed animals never made it to the iconic tale until a family photograph changed everything nearly 90 years later.

In a move that brings together, and fuses further, Jedis Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, Star Wars comic writer Jason Aaron is set to tell young Yoda's tale.

If I sound like an expert, I'm not. All this lore comes courtesy of hindsight.

During a backstage interview at this year's Emmys, the 67-year-old Game of Thrones author revealed there was a wealth of 'fake history' to mine.

The higher one's status, the better one's health.

Lionel Shriver takes mischievous pleasure in attacking arguments she considers politically correct. And that's where trouble starts.

Jimmy Barnes reveals harrowing childhood in new memoir Working Class Boy, saying: 'It's pretty traumatic, putting it all out there. I feel like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.'

Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton keep their spot on top of the Australian bestseller charts.

One of the more intriguing aspects of Never Never comes from trying to work out where James Patterson ends and Candice Fox begins.

Michael Collins was on the edge of giving up writing when he was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2000 for The Keepers of Truth, the sixth of his 10 works of fiction.

The Muse is the second novel by English author Jessie Burton, whose debut, The Miniaturist, sold more than 1 million copies worldwide.

Exploring the class and boys-own sexual dynamics of the Cambridge spy ring.

Helen Thurloe is an award-winning Australian writer and poet.

But why did he even get this far?

"Downsizing", "purging", "editing" are all buzzword cures for getting rid of material excess.

Gay Talese, famed for being one of the originators of New Journalism, acknowledges the affinity between the voyeur and the journalist.

Lauren Elkin's compulsive need to wander the city in order to feel at home continues the tradition of the original flaneuse.

Anyone who has ever butted heads with a neighbour over boundaries will be predisposed to enjoy this book.

This anthology is a substantial collection of writing from such well-known names as Melissa Lukashenko, Omar Musa and Maxina Beneba Clarke, as well as newer writers.

After a very slow start, Rashida Murphy's novel picks up the pace about halfway through and rockets towards its shocking conclusion.

As far as symbolic issues inexplicably beloved by the conservative end of politics go, there have been few as passionately fought as their resolute objection to same-sex marriage.

According to Scottish writer Kate Atkinson, every novel is improved by the presence of a dog. It's advice that singer songwriter Holly Throsby has taken to heart in her debut novel.