As the committee responsible for organising the annual Northern Zonal Book Fair sets to stage this year's edition of the book fair which's maiden edition was held in Abuja last October, it has received a much necessary motivation from no

Fifteen minutes of fame is the proverbial moment one's shiny star of elation and celebration burns and keeps burning before it fizzling out. But for the quartet of Eugenia Abu, Ahmed Maiwada, Prof. Tunde Adeniran and Abubakar Gimba, their literary

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Paul Levy reviews The End of Food by Paul Roberts and Hungry City by Carolyn Steel

Harry Mount reviews Complaint by Julian Baggini; Credit and Blame by Charles Tilly and Trust: and Self-Interest and the Common Good by Marek Kohn

After 100 years, Kenneth Grahame's masterwork still feels as current as it ever has. By Tom Payne

Laura Thompson reviews Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame

Electronic reading devices are being hailed as the iPod of literature. Paul Gent is not so sure

Ed Lake reviews Kluge by Gary Marcus and The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow

James Miller reviews Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

In The Times Jeanette Winterson enthuses about reading translations -- though she's sticking to re-reading classics.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Translators Association of the Society of Authors they have compiled a list of 50 outstanding translations of the last half century.

Sinclair McKay enjoys the latest thrills for teenagers

Toby Clements falls under the spell of the latest in magical storytelling

Kate Saunders reviews historical fiction for young readers

Will Tim Martin be replaced by a computer program? Likelihood 9, worry 4

Lorna Bradbury takes a look at the best in new picture books for children

Carole Mansur reviews audiobooks for children

Jake Kerridge reviews foreign crime