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Hi Stig! Hello Worzel! Greetings Mrs Frisby! Lifelong bookaholic Lucy Mangan rediscovers her childhood - in Puffin's giant archiveThe other day I mentioned to my sister that I was planning to visit Penshurst Place in Kent for the first time. 'Oh yes,' she said. 'Dad and I went there once.' Without me! Can you believe the favouritism? 'And where was I,' I asked, on learning that their jaunts were weekly.'Where do you think you were?' she said. 'You were at home. Reading. We told you we were going every time and you never broke eye contact with Enid Blyton. Sometimes you'd wave goodbye as you turned a page.'I have racked my brains but I still do not remember them going. And now here, neatly stored on miles of shelving in the Penguin archive, are the reasons. Puffins. Not the excitable avian inhabitants of the Hebrides, but the books. Penguin invited me to spend the day here after an article I wrote hinted that it would be my Xanadu. These books are my memories. My entire childhood is on

Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida?s movie about familial dysfunction would make a perfect book.

Before the 'Twilight' stars walked away with five MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night they heated things up on the red carpet. ET spoke to Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, and Elizabeth Reaser who opened up about their experience making the film, and shared special details about the highly anticipated 'Twilight' sequel. Taylor Lautner tells ET's Kevin Frazier how much his life has changed as a result of being a part of the 'Twilight' cast. "It's crazy," Taylor says. "When we were making 'Twilight' we had no idea what we were making. We were just making this book series and we hoped some fans would enjoy it. And they did. It kind of exploded and went off from there. Here we are, this is crazy."

In her witty and impressively observed debut novel Samantha Peale has given us what is probably the first novel narrated by a studio assistant in New York in the 21st century.

SINGING sensation is expected to make fortune from record deal, book and film about her life.

Thor co-writer Ashley Miller also chimes in on the upcoming big screen adaptation of the popular comic book.

It may have been one of the greatest tennis matches in history. Last year's men's final at Wimbledon pitted No. 1 Roger Federer against one of the only men who presented a challenge to him in the past, Rafael Nadal. The epic struggle took hours longer than most matches and led to a passing of the torch in men's tennis. Sports writer Jon Wertheim, who wrote about the match in his new book, Strokes of Genius, talks to host Jacki Lyden.

THE rest of the world might be belt-tightening, but a secret look at the books of Channel 9 has exposed the network's biggest spenders when it comes to dressing the part of a TV star.

The final Haycast from the 2009 Guardian Hay festival opens with an interview with one of the festival's most highly-anticipated authors, Kamila Shamsie. Her novel Burnt Shadows, which opens in Nagasaki on the morning of the atomic bomb and closes in a US gripped by anti-Islamic fervour following the attacks on the twin towers, is shortlisted for this year's Orange prize. She talks about grand narratives, tackling the tensions between the west and Islam in fiction and why Pakistani literature is having its moment in the sun.Reza Aslan's first book, No god but God, was translated into 13 languages and shortlisted for the Guardian first book award. He talks to Xan Brooks about his new book, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror - an academic study of the issues Shamsie grapples with in her novel.Finally, the poet Ruth Padel, the scientist Steve Jones and Cambridge University's Gillian Beer discuss what Darwin's written legacy reveals about him, Joh

The human rights organization PEN is dedicated to helping writers around the world whose right to free expression is being challenged. Some of the authors who belong to the group have written essays on the power of the word, published in a new collection called Burn This Book, edited by Nobel prize-winning writer, Toni Morrison.