Stephenie Meyer – a squeaky-clean vampire queen

Profile: New Moon's chaste tale of the undead will fill the world's cinemas with teenage girls this week, yet the woman behind a publishing phenomenon to rival JK Rowling and Dan Brown has never even seen an R-rated movie

Lionel Davidson obituary

Obituary: Award-winning writer renowned for thrillers such as The Rose of Tibet and The Chelsea Murders

Fashion on film

Nicole Kidman's furs, Naomie Harris's fitted suits and Ben Whishaw's battered work boots – let film be your muse this autumn, says Emma Sibbles

Romancing the Raj

Kapil Komireddi: A new film about the end of British rule in India will focus not on the costs of colonialism but on the private lives of the elite

Carl Hiaasen adaptations would be a hoot

Saptarshi Ray: So far only two of Carl Hiaasen's books have made it to the big screen – Striptease, and a children's film about endangered owls – but his laugh-out-loud stories are surely ripe for adaptation?