EntertainmentBook review: Trifecta, Ian WeddeThe typically demotic title introduces three world-soiled siblings, children of a dangerously attractive and totally untrustworthy refugee from Nazism who's credited with making New Zealand aware of real coffee and really modern buildings.02 Oct 04:00 PM
Entertainment'Everything lands me in trouble' - Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie has written his funniest novel in years - but beneath the jokes lies an uncomfortable truth, discovers Gaby Wood.02 Oct 04:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman RushdieThe tone of Salman Rushdie's latest novel is like a chocolate with a nut centre, beguilingly sweet on the outside but with a hard core.02 Oct 04:00 PM
TravelBook review: Wild Roads - A New Zealand Journey, Bruce AnsleyAuthor Bruce Ansley cherishes pointing his car along New Zealand's highways and roads.01 Oct 05:00 PM
Entertainment'Stale excrement' book reviewMorrissey's debut novel has been slated as an "unpolished turd of a book".24 Sep 09:11 PM
TravelBook review: Lonely Planet's Ultimate TravelistYou can't beat a good list - and a good bit of travel bragging. Lonely Planet knows it, and this is their contribution to the debate, writes Winston Aldworth.02 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBooks: Recent releases August 29As adulthood gels carefree youth drains away.29 Aug 10:35 PM
EntertainmentBooks: Recent releases August 23Even razor-sharp detectives grow old and slow down.23 Aug 02:27 AM
EntertainmentBook review: The Fish Ladder, Katharine NorburyFish ladders are structures that Britons began building in the 19th century when they started damming and blocking waterways.21 Aug 04:50 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Whispering Swarm, Michael MoorcockThere are too many Michael Moorcocks. I don't mean the books - although there are a bewildering number of those, there could never be too many for his admirers.21 Aug 04:50 PM
EntertainmentBook review: James Cook's Lost World, Graeme LayIn this final volume of Graeme Lay's fictional trilogy on the life of James Cook, we confront a very different man to the legend or, for that matter, the first two books in the series.21 Aug 04:50 PM
EntertainmentBook review: The Pale North, Hamish ClaytonIt begins near the end of the 20th century. The Big One has finally hit; on a strangely warm July afternoon, the Wellington Fault tears asunder, and New Zealand's capital is wrecked.14 Aug 04:50 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Seveneves, Neal StephensonLike every other book of Stephenson's, this one uses formal language to position itself a small, strategic distance from its readers, like a speaker standing behind a lectern.14 Aug 04:50 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Love + Hate, Hanif KureishiA grinding, persuasive power binds this collection of short fiction and essays, many of which have been published elsewhere in the past two or three years.14 Aug 04:50 PM
TravelBook review: Skyfaring - A Journey with a PilotIn an age of low-cost carriers, DVT and crappy movies on crappy little screens, we often lose sight of the old-fashioned wonder of flight, writes Winston Aldworth.12 Aug 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook review: Sweet Caress, William BoydBritish novelist William Boyd's latest book, Sweet Caress, tells the story of a young female photographer. It is published at the end of the August.10 Aug 02:44 AM
EntertainmentBook review: Terrain, Geoff ChappleWhen he founded Te Araroa - the national walkway - Geoff Chapple encouraged us to go out and see the extraordinary beauty of this land of the long white cloud.07 Aug 06:00 PM
EntertainmentAuthor's vivid novel tells story of America gone wrongIn Benjamin Markovits' vivid new novel, the city becomes a symptom of America gone wrong. He tells Mick Brown about losing out and fitting in.07 Aug 06:00 PM
