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Margaret Mahy passes away
Children's book author Margaret Mahy and one of New Zealand's most acclaimed literary figures died today.
Four new Mansfield manuscripts found
A young student has reportedly uncovered four previously unknown stories by New Zealand literary great Katherine Mansfield.
The woman who went to bed for a year
What we want, finds Nicky Pellegrino, is often different from what we get.
Weekend project: Ready to read
An easy shelving project is the solution for the boxes of books piling up in the house, writes Justin Newcombe.
The diary that destroyed a marriage
British writer Kate Summerscale explains to Stephen Jewell how her journalistic background helped her investigate a Victorian divorce.
Jodi Picoult and her 16-year-old muse
Jodi Picoult had an ideal co-author on a new book - her teenage daughter, finds Nicky Pellegrino.
Fiction Addiction: Recommended read - Band-Aid for a Broken Leg
Damien Brown's first book offers a humble, sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing account of one man's experiences of the realities of aid work.
Lead us into temptation: Why we're addicted to cookbooks
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.
Children's books getting bleaker - study
Heroes in children's books face darker times today than those in the past, say academics after conducting a study.
Frolics amid the facts in Skylark
Historical detail steadies a lively yarn set in NZ's early showbiz days.
The book that self-destructs in 60 days
Recalcitrant readers take note: a publisher in Buenos Aires has created a book written in disappearing ink.