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JK Rowling's own copy of the first edition of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', adorned with her illustrations…
Abigail Tarttelin has written a dramatic and emotionally authentic story. An unusual sexual secret gives this novel raw…
Some natures are drawn to hazard: to explore the familiar from a vertiginously different perspective.
I am fortunate enough to spend more time in my happy place than anywhere else. My happy place is my office/library. It's…
New Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde, has written two of my all-time favourite poetry collections: The Commonplace Odes…
Wellingtonian Emma Martin won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize with the title story of this first collection.
One of the more startling observations in a book filled with acute and startling observations is that Africans only really…
The city of Auckland was named after "a dud ex-colonial mediocrity who stuffed up on a quite spectacular scale", says British…
Dan Brown sees the world a little differently than the average person.
Former Apple chief evangelist and now entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki says he wants to help New Zealand be even more…
Nicky Pellegrino is captivated by a 'how-to' with a plot.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the book that most people want to pass on to their children, according to a survey…
Film-spotters can start making notes, because the first films to feature at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival…
Three Asian artists draw on their heritage to create contemporary works with meaning.