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Writing was 'one of my weaker areas' says 16-year-old author of three books

“I just want to inspire youth to know they can do anything possible no matter what."

How to write truly hot, non-cringey sex scenes (and 9 books that get it right)

Times: Author Kate Weinberg searches for the secret of really good sex – on the page.

Why John Mulaney is conspicuously absent from Anna Marie Tendler's memoir

Times: Memoir details stay in psychiatric hospital after famous comedian husband left her.

Opinion: The viral literary queen who’s bigger than the Bible

OPINION: The accidental TikTok sensation has sold more than 30 million books.

'A colourful celebration of literature': Kids dress up for Awapuni School Book Parade

Pages came to life as Awapuni students dressed up as their favourite book characters.

Life as a mixed-race New Zealander explored in Kaitāia man Mike Bentley's poetry

The new book focuses on life as a Palagi-Samoan Kiwi.

The Oedipus complex has been debunked — but mummy’s boys shouldn’t celebrate just yet

Why it’s time to take Freud’s disturbing theory about childhood seriously.

Control, paranoia and fear: A chilling memoir that tradwife fans need to read

Tia Levings was a 'well-trained wife'. Now she's lifting the lid on what that meant.

Rich-lister Dame Wendy Pye on how being sacked changed her life

'I just decided that no bastard would ever walk me off the place again.'

First look inside new five-star Horizon by SkyCity hotel

Locals were commissioned to make art within the new hotel to showcase this country.

Keanu Reeves wrote a book. A really weird one

New York Times: The Matrix star teams up with a sci-fi novelist.

JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy was almost universally praised. Times have changed

When Vance burst on to the scene with his memoir, he was a different person.

Hello Kitty is not a cat. Fans aren’t buying it

Paws for thought: Sanrio executive says the character is a human third-grader from London.

Confessions of a spin doctor for the world’s worst people

Times: He worked for Gaddafi and got Assad's wife in Vogue. Can he buy back his soul?

50 years ago, Jaws hit bookstores, capturing the angst of a generation

New York Times: The success of Jaws had unforeseen consequences for the author.

Novelist Emily Perkins on why ‘we’re always drawn to stories about the unhappy rich’

Lioness author talks to Liam Dann about money art and the economics of writing.