Despite the fact I've spent hours of my career traipsing along Mayfair streets en route to the Dorchester hotel for press junkets, making my way through the pretty urban garden to The Greenhouse was a bit of a surprise.

You can feel the villagey nature of London's most expensive neighbourhood...

The prolific writer behind Bzrk, the Animorphs saga and most importantly (for me anyway) the GONE series has finally put the last full stop on the sixth and concluding instalment of the latter, called Light, which was published last month.

We started by chatting about a

I'll admit it - I wasn't entirely sure what burrata was when I read about the new menu touting the stuff at Italian bolthole Babbo on Albemarle Street in Mayfair.

But that's what is so great about London cuisine these days, we have access to so many top-quality...

I love cricket. And I love movies. The problem is, Hollywood - or indeed any kind of -wood - seems to think that my two favourite pastimes should never meet.

Long has my desire to watch something cricket-y on the big screen been quashed. I know there have been attempts,...

Want to know why a financier is called a financier? And no, I don't mean that kind, I mean the cakey type.

Because the tins they are traditionally cooked in makes them look like gold bullion. There, you've learned something. It wasn't the only thing I learned on my French...

U.S. author Maggie Stiefvater has sold over two million books worldwide, with hits including the Shiver series, The Scorpio Races and The Raven Boys - YA stories with a fantasy twist.

Not only that, but she lives on a farm, which she shares with her husband, kids and...

We hear the words reboot or remake so often these days, hardened film fans have given up rolling their eyes and punching their popcorn boxes. For modern Hollywood, name recognition is everything and that's why over the past few years we've had yet another Spider-Man origin story, a mediocre retread...

Lauren Oliver is the best-selling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy. The final book in the latter series - Requiem - has just been released. It wraps up the story of Lena, a plucky young woman who lives in a future America where love is...

Michael Marshall is a best-selling British novelist, who has managed to slip cleverly between genre fiction and mainstream thriller writing. He's also a short story author and screenwriter, who commutes between Brighton, London and Santa Cruz, California.

His new book is We Are Here, about an author who has a...

It's not often I share something in common with Justin Bieber, but that was the case this week when I went along to the revamped Mr Chow in Knightsbridge, which re-opened its doors recently to celebrate its 45th anniversary.

Having lived in Los Angeles for a couple of...

You know a culinary trend has reached its zenith when it's infiltrated the high end.

Having lived in America for almost three years, I was pleased to see a taste for BBQ-style grub come to Britain. I was slightly dismayed when it got aligned with the hipsters, who can sniff...

American-born writer CJ Daugherty is the author of the successful Night School series, the first of which was the #5 bestselling YA debut of 2012.

It tells the story of Allie Sheridan, an angry teenager with a dysfunctional family who is sent to Cimmeria Academy, a secretive boarding...

I like a good tea, me. I play cricket, so the concept of sitting down to sandwiches, cake and a brew in the middle of the afternoon is not anathema. Plus I've recently been trying desperately to emulate my far more cultured male friends who have got all hot and...

I once went to a concert of film composer Jerry Goldsmith's music conducted by the man himself. At the beginning of the performance, he turned to the audience and joked that we were welcome to talk through it as much as we want - after all, that's what happens on-screen.

Pushing the Limits is the debut novel by author Katie McGarry, an American writer whose book has been getting a whole lot of praise - and attracting an equal amount of controversy. Telling the story of Echo and Noah, mixed-up teens who embark on a all-consuming...

One of seven children, Monica McInerney grew up in Australia and then came to live in the UK before moving to Ireland where she married. She has won a number of literary awards and published 10 novels, which consistently top the charts in both the land of her...

I went to a Buckinghamshire library the other day to talk about my new book. It was a good night, chatting Professor Brian Cox. That's who I wrote about - an unauthorised biography of the science guru behind Wonders Of The Solar System and Wonders Of The Universe.

You know the drill - you've watched an enjoyable film and it's coming to a satisfying yet bombastic ending. You think, yes, lovely, that was a perfect way to spend a Friday night. But that's NOT the end.

No, rather than tying everything up neatly, there's an annoying coda setting...

Peter James is the best-selling author of the Roy Grace series of crime novels including Dead Man's Grip and Dead Like You, as well as several stand-alone books. Formerly a movie producer, James's saga about the Brighton-based detective whose wife Sandy mysteriously went missing have sold over 11...

Ah, I can smell of schlock in the air. And there's nothing like a B movie with an amazing cast (doesn't happen all that often, not since the 80s anyway) like Haywire, which is out on DVD right now.

Starring MMA fighter Gina Carano - the...