Jodi Picoult had an ideal co-author on a new book - her teenage daughter, finds Nicky Pellegrino.

Damien Brown's first book offers a humble, sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing account of one man's experiences of the realities of aid work.

Last year we spent almost $12 million on food and wine books. Dionne Christian asks what it is about cookbooks that turns some of us into addicts.

Heroes in children's books face darker times today than those in the past, say academics after conducting a study.

Historical detail steadies a lively yarn set in NZ's early showbiz days.

Recalcitrant readers take note: a publisher in Buenos Aires has created a book written in disappearing ink.

British author Simon Mawer talks to Stephen Jewell about the truth behind his secret agent heroine and feeling like a tourist in one’s own land.

The Kiwi bloke and his ute have entered the nation's mythology, with sheds and gumboots. And it's not just blokes.

Her first two novels failed to sell and her next three weren’t even accepted by a publisher. So how did Chocolat author Joanne Harris become an international best-seller? She talks to Stephen Jewell about food, religion and her latest novel.

"Mommy porn" - it's more emetic than erotic.

Haddon's fiction often features narrators whose viewpoint is different, distinctive, disoriented in some way.

The debut book by racy publishing phenomenon EL James, Fifty Shades Of Grey, has become the first to sell more than one million copies on Kindle.

One critic dubbed it "Bend it Like Beckham in a burka." A feel-good read that carries with it romance, humour and suspense, with a sinister twist.

Adults of all ages will love this comic cleverness, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

When we last saw Thomas Cromwell, in the Booker prize-winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's unlikely hero was at the height of his powers.