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Equestrian: Kiwis within a squeak of a medal

Brave heart

A mistake that almost cost Nicholas Evans his life helped him craft a novel rich in pathos, as Nicky Pellegrino explains.

Book Review: <i>Started Early, Took My Dog</i>

Kate Atkinson began as a prize-winning literary novelist with <i>Behind the Scenes At The Museum</i> and has reinvented herself by using the tropes of detective fiction.

Book lover: Ben Crowder

Summer read inspires colonial play

Double delight from master violinist

Professor of anarchy

Off the computer and on the wall

Artists@Work, a new book by writer Richard Wolfe and photographer Stephen Robinson, offers an insight into the creative processes of 24 painters and sculptors. In this edited extract, Auckland artist Richard Killeen talks about disliking p

Writer's survival story a bestseller

<i>The Hobbit</i> producers may film outside NZ

Britain's first lady of chick lit

Best-known for her rollicking blockbuster romances set in the horse-riding world, Jilly Cooper is one of Britain's most-read authors. Robyn Langwell meets the prolific writer at home, a setting straight out of one of her novels.

Venue fit for a visiting Queen

When the Queen visited Auckland in 1981, Doug Harley spent a week sleeping in the St James Theatre before the Royal Variety Performance.

Ihimaera's controversial novel unlikely to be reprinted

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Restore St James and make Auckland NZ's arts capital

Concert Review: Todd Rundgren, <i>Powerstation</i>

Art recoups a little of failed firm's money

Theatre Review: Thom Pain, <i>Herald Theatre</i>

Theatre Review: Krapp's Last Tape, <i>The Basement</i>