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'Mummy porn' grips Kiwi readers

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.

Preserved heads book big auction drawcard

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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.

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A grown-up adventure

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.

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Lara Bingle reads erotic novel as court hears case

Fiction Addiction: Best wintry books to curl up with

Tenets of a talented writer reach out

Nicky Pellegrino sees a film sequel in Joanne Harris' latest novel.

Trusty utes faithful in Kiwi love affair (+competition)

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

Fiction Addiction: Taking a novel route out of prison

Chocolat author's appetite for change

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.