LifestyleBook review: Round HouseThis well-told story won the American National Book Award last year.12 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestylePursuing the primateCarl Hiaasen needn’t look far for a story on which to base a novel. It’s all right outside his door in Miami, he tells Stephen Jewell.05 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Fall Of LightRudy’s 43rd year is not a good one. He’s on bad terms with his wife and daughters; his parents (living or dead); his assertive younger fellow-architects. He’s falling off the booze wagon and he’s just fallen off his Vespa.05 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Odd Angry ShotFilmed 30 years ago, out-of-print for quarter of a century, <i>The Odd Angry Shot</i> is a savage and mordantly funny novel that follows a group of Aussie SAS troopers in South Vietnam during the ugly, unjustified war of the 1960s.28 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleReview: The Keeper Of SecretsA violin's journey invokes smiles and tears, writes Nicky Pellegrino.22 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleChris Columbus' novel approachLong-time Hollywood director Chris Columbus wants his latest success story to stay on the page — for now, anyway, writes Stephen Jewell.21 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: AnticipationThe materially successful but spiritually bereft Janine Harding finds herself, in her early 40s, living in a “do-up” on an island in the Hauraki Gulf, where time on her hands sets her to thinking about her family history.15 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Astronaut Wives ClubStories told of the mostly unknown women behind US astronauts.15 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: His Own Steam: The Work of Barry BrickellIn this book full of striking images, it's the first that seems to best capture the essence of potter Barry Brickell - a 1971 portrait of the artist bent double to work inside a huge ceramic jar, his trunk vanishing ostrich-like into its clay mouth.14 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of CakeAn older woman's wisdom is an asset we can all bank, writes Nicky Pellegrino.08 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: House Of EarthWoodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie wrote many of his most enduring folk songs after trekking through America's dust-bowl during the years of the Depression and dispossession.07 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Five DaysIt was only in retrospect that I truly got the point of Douglas Kennedy’s latest novel.01 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Lost, Stolen Or ShreddedThe universal appeal of the "What If" speculation underpins this fascinating collection of artistic losses ranging from historic thefts to works that never actually realised.31 May 06:00 PM
SportCricket: Martin Crowe's latest memoir spares nobody - including himselfMartin Crowe has called John Parker's document on the "Taylor Affair" ill-advised in a new book.31 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: AmericanahPartly autobiographical novel is a potential winner of awards, predicts Nicky Pellegrino.25 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleTime-travelling kill spreeStephen Jewell meets the award-winning South African author of a thrilling tale of murder ... and baseball.25 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Blood & BeautySarah Dunant's trio of novels set in Renaissance Italy cemented her reputation as one of the great writers of historical fiction.24 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: BelomorMost of Nicolas Rothwell's books and journalism offer lyrical, subjective evocations of northern Australia and its indigenous people.24 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Who We WereThe first book by Australian author Lucy Neave, <i>Who We Were</i> is a very restrained sort of thriller.24 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Levels Of LifeSome natures are drawn to hazard: to explore the familiar from a vertiginously different perspective.18 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Golden BoyAbigail Tarttelin has written a dramatic and emotionally authentic story. An unusual sexual secret gives this novel raw power, writes Nicky Pellegrino.18 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleListen to the silenceNew Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde, has written two of my all-time favourite poetry collections: <i>The Commonplace Odes</i> and <i>Three Regrets And A Hymn To Beauty</i>.17 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: AmericanahOne of the more startling observations in a book filled with acute and startling observations is that Africans only really come to consider they are “black” when they go to the United States.17 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Two Girls In A BoatWellingtonian Emma Martin won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize with the title story of this first collection.17 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Writing ClassNicky Pellegrino is captivated by a 'how-to' with a plot.11 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: BangsSteven Eldred-Grigg is a well-known and respected popular historian and novelist. <i>Bangs</i> is the fourth book in a series of novels that began with the much loved Oracles and Miracles, published in 1987.10 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Maya's NotebookNicky Pellegrino delves into a harrowing tale of survival that's also a story about love.04 May 06:00 PM
