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JK Rowling's own Potter book for sale
JK Rowling's own copy of the first edition of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', adorned with her illustrations…
Book Review: Golden Boy
Abigail Tarttelin has written a dramatic and emotionally authentic story. An unusual sexual secret gives this novel raw…
Book Review: Levels Of Life
Some natures are drawn to hazard: to explore the familiar from a vertiginously different perspective.
My happy place: Graham Beattie, blogger
I am fortunate enough to spend more time in my happy place than anywhere else. My happy place is my office/library. It's…
Books
Book lover: Sarah Dunant
The book I love the most is ... When things get tough I find myself re-reading Giuseppe Lampedusa's…
Listen to the silence
New Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde, has written two of my all-time favourite poetry collections: The Commonplace Odes…
Book Review: Two Girls In A Boat
Wellingtonian Emma Martin won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize with the title story of this first collection.
Book Review: Americanah
One of the more startling observations in a book filled with acute and startling observations is that Africans only really…
Writers Festival: Giant books bring the past to life
Rutherfurd, whose new tome is called Paris , had an extra hour added to yesterday's Writers & Readers…
Writers Festival: Revealed - a name of shame
The city of Auckland was named after "a dud ex-colonial mediocrity who stuffed up on a quite spectacular scale", says British…
Dan Brown returns to Europe for Inferno
Dan Brown sees the world a little differently than the average person.
Business guru Kawasaki points the way
Former Apple chief evangelist and now entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki says he wants to help New Zealand be even more…
Book Review: The Writing Class
Nicky Pellegrino is captivated by a 'how-to' with a plot.
Writers Festival: Food for thought
Books Archives
Graham Reid talks to Australian writer Wayne Macauley about food porn and creativity.
Fiction Addiction
Fiction Addiction: What book would you most like your kids to read?
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the book that most people want to pass on to their children, according to a survey…
New Zealand International Film Festival
First festival flicks unveiled
Film-spotters can start making notes, because the first films to feature at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival…
Arts
Asian artists draw on heritage
Three Asian artists draw on their heritage to create contemporary works with meaning.
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