Book clubs, commuters and celebrities have gone wild for Gone Girl, the smash-hit thriller that has Hollywood in a spin. Tim Walker talks to author Gillian Flynn about being this year’s literary sensation

The Franks brothers, famously, are allowed to follow their own training programmes so if All Blacks coach Steve Hansen wanted to get an idea of what they were up to he could do worse than read their new book.

A Kiwi country girl rubs shoulders with British celebs and shows us the good side to cakes and tarts in her debut cookbook

My happy place is my home in central Auckland. I travel quite a lot. Last year I went to Europe a couple of times and the States a couple of times and I had a few other trips - but part of the reason I love to travel is that I get to come home afterwards.

Six years ago, Sarah O’Neil was unhappy, unwell and living on one of Auckland’s busiest roads. Now she’s happily feeding her family all year round from her large rural garden south of Auckland. Greg Dixon talks to her about fleeing the city and about livi

British author Deborah Moggach returns to the rickety hotel setting that earned her big box-office success, writes Stephen Jewell

Parents are wasting money spending a fortune on books when a small selection of favourites can achieve far better results.

A story that lets its heroine rework her life holds Nicky Pellegrino spellbound.

Alan Smythe is the executive producer of Auckland Summer Shakespeare's 50th Anniversary show, King Lear.

The next James Bond novel has the world's most famous secret agent living in London's Chelsea section at the age of 45.

If its subject were less illustrious, this memoir would probably receive little attention.

Kiwi bookworms prefer homicide to hanky panky, figures from libraries reveal.

This is very good, with an unusual proviso; this narrative has more routine everyday mountain climbing than anything I've read.

Kelly Clarkson has slammed music mogul Clive Davis for allegedly spreading false information about her in his new memoir.

A new James Bond novel, written by British novelist William Boyd, will be released on September 26, publishers Jonathan Cape have announced.

The 19th century novels I still like give a strong sense of demanding to be read aloud to an audience. But by 1950, I would say, that lingering expectation of how a novel delivers had changed, in most languages and even most genres.