EntertainmentBook review: City of MirrorsJustin Cronin's readers can't easily put him down, writes Dionne Christian.08 Jul 06:00 PM
EntertainmentA thriller juicy with secretsOn a chilly, rainy day, it's tempting to escape to the baking heat of Australia.02 Jul 12:04 AM
EntertainmentA Kiwi's walk backwards in Mao's footstepsIt sounds almost too extraordinary to be true: a Kiwi advertising executive makes a pilgrimage across the byways of China, where tourists are rarely seen, and tracks down a long lost son of Mao Tse Tung.01 Jul 06:00 PM
EntertainmentNovel digs into dark world of home invasionsJennifer Dann meets an author whose book is inspired by violence but defined by humanity.24 Jun 06:00 PM
EntertainmentFlash win for Kiwi storytellerChristchurch-based writer Heather McQuillan is the winner of this year's National Flash Fiction Day competition.24 Jun 06:00 PM
EntertainmentCKS share platesKarl Stead is like a grand old sideboard in the dining room of New Zealand literature.24 Jun 06:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Last Painting of Sara de VosNovels about painters and paintings have been in vogue recently.24 Jun 06:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Forgetting TimeNoah is a 4-year-old boy who often wakes screaming from nightmares in which he plays with guns and is held underwater until he blacks out.17 Jun 05:00 PM
EntertainmentFour new books for foodiesFoodies and home cooks will love these four new reads.17 Jun 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Blackbird Sings At DuskElizabeth is a husk of a woman. She feels nothing. Why she continues to live baffles her.17 Jun 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: I Am No One, Patrick FlaneryWhen I found myself counting the words in sentences rather than actually absorbing them, I realised it was time to give up on the book.10 Jun 06:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Seelendbinder, James McNeishWhat a phenomenon James McNeish is. Literary fashions, figures and feuds parade past and all the while McNeish is working steadily and skilfully away.10 Jun 06:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Napoleon's Willow, Joan Norlev TaylorFrom the sure hand of historian Joan Norlev Taylor comes the tricky manoeuvre of binding fact and fiction into a convincing historical novel.27 May 05:55 PM
EntertainmentBook review: This Is Where The World Ends, Amy ZhangZhang's bleakly lyrical first YA novel brought a cascade of admirers and superlatives; now comes this intricate narrative of adolescents in all their vulnerability, idealism and savagery.27 May 05:55 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Mandibles, Lionel Shriver"Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present," says one of Lionel Shriver's characters in her latest novel set in a dystopian America of the near future.27 May 05:55 PM
EntertainmentReviews: Crime fiction round upGreg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction16 May 11:22 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Lab Girl, Hope JahrenStrangely, here we have one autobiography of two people.29 Apr 06:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Mothering Sunday, Graham SwiftGraham Swift's consummate novella fills a day, 90-plus years ago post-World War I, when the servant class are free to visit their families.29 Apr 06:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The North Water, Ian McGuireIan McGuire's story of brutality, greed and whaling - set aboard a boat off the coast of Greenland - is worth seeking out, especially for those of you who are not squeamish.19 Apr 10:34 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Bend With The Wind, Suraya Dewing"Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict," writes Robert McKee of Story Seminar fame.15 Apr 10:33 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Deep South, Paul TherouxPaul Theroux is one of the great travel writers because he makes you eager to visit where he writes about, even when he sharply gets what's wrong with it.08 Apr 06:00 PM
EntertainmentCrime fiction round upGreg Fleming reviews the latest batch of crime fiction21 Mar 11:00 PM
