What happens when children finally leave the nest? Best-selling author Nicci Gerrard recalls tears when the moment arrived — and the chance to turn a time of loss into a new sense of liberation.

Everyday conversations draw in Nicky Pellegrino.

Gigi Fenster has made a standout debut with her novel, The Intentions Book. The writing is tight, the protagonist memorable and the revelations stitched with a subtle finesse.

Author Helen Brown tells Linda Herrick how her life’s dramas have led to an upcoming movie — all thanks to two cats.

She's a mum, a vet, a farmer - and a rom-com ace, finds Nicky Pellegrino.

Nicky Pellegrino is left uninvolved by Kiwi writer's Booker Prize favourite.

Book lovers, put that novel down for a sec, here's a festival that may just appeal to your love of literature.

Best known as band manager Murray from Flight of the Conchords, Rhys Darby is one of New Zealand's biggest comedic exports. The funny man popped in to the NZ Herald office for a chat about his new book, This Way to Spaceship, 'a handy autobiographical end-of-the-world companion'.

For every person devouring a new best-seller, someone else is rereading an old favourite. But why do books, and authors, keep luring us back, asks Tom Lamont.

Lemon Andersen tells David Larsen how his time in prison led to a career in poetry.