When I started reading The Secret Life of Bees and realised it was going to be about race relations in America’s south... I admit to being reluctant.

Vampires that are courteous and kind and try to live like humans. A series of four books about teenage romance in which sex only occurs in the final book, after marriage! The Twilight series takes the vampire myth and carries it to a different dimension.

‘First came love, then came marriage, then came Bella with a baby carriage,’ or so the old nursery rhyme goes, rewritten of course for final book in Stephanie Meyer’s vampire quartet.

Eclipse is the longest, and possibly the most difficult to read of all of the Twilight series, being a 628 page analysis of Bella’s torturous advance to her wedding day – but then that might just be a boy speaking.

John Dickson's new book aims to analyse Jesus’ life from a historical perspective, to debunk some of the false claims that have fueled fictional accounts of his life.

It is a magnificent achievement for a first-time author to be short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize ... but I don't like this book.

A review of The Change We Can Believe In, a collection of Barack Obama's campaign speeches.

Landscape of Farewell was an interesting experience for me. It was a journey into the inner world of men. It treated subjects that, as a woman, I am familiar with: friendship, finding meaning and reconciliation. Yet it was all from the perspective of males.

The Year of Magical Thinking is an intensely personal account of the pain of loss, by the celebrated journalist Joan Didion.

If Stephanie Meyer’s first book about the love-life of a teenage would-be vampire is about the struggle of beginning an unlikely relationship, then the second is about the pain of losing it.

This week Kara Martin joins Sydneyanglicans.net as our resident book reviewer and the author of a new blog examining popular writing from a Christian point of view.

Last year while Christmas shopping I frequently found myself in bookshops or in the book sections of various stores and wherever I went I saw the same book, with the same smiling face on the cover.

The White Tiger was recently voted winner of the prestigious 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. As such it is guaranteed literary immortality and a vastly increased worldwide readership.

Murder by Family is a father’s anguished story of his search to save his son, and his son’s long journey from a secret and dark past towards a reconnection with God.