LifestyleBook review: Beautiful RuinsWell-pitched tale took 15 years to tell, writes Nicky Pellegrino.03 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Last Days Of The National CostumeAnne Kennedy is an award-winning poet who has also developed a solid reputation writing novels and screenplays.02 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Fallen LandIt seems strange, in the age of information overload, that we should still be swamped by the fear of the unknown.02 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: This House Is HauntedThere are no prizes for guessing what this book is about. <i>This House is Haunted</i> is about a haunted house and, if you like spooky ghost stories, John Boyne’s latest novel does the trick.26 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Apple Tree YardThe halls of government prove to be an enthralling setting for courtroom drama, writes Stephen Jewell.26 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The LuminariesEvery now and then you get to read a novel that elevates you far beyond the bric-a-brac of everyday routine, takes you apart, reassembles you, and leaves you feeling as though you have been on holiday with a genius.26 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Cross fingersKiwi crime fiction is top class, writes Nicky Pellegrino.20 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleHaunted by the tourA fiery episode in our recent history is plumbed for drama, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.13 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: JoylandWhen did the amusement park coming-of-age story become a thing? Did I miss the memo?12 Jul 06:00 PM
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: The Astronaut Wives ClubStories told of the mostly unknown women behind US astronauts.15 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: 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
