LifestyleBooker Prize favourite was a frustrating readNicky Pellegrino is left uninvolved by Kiwi writer's Booker Prize favourite.12 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleWriters & Readers Festival: 5 must-see sessionsBook lovers, put that novel down for a sec, here's a festival that may just appeal to your love of literature.10 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleRhys Darby: Dancing, lizards and the end of the worldBest 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'.Watch08 May 10:28 PM
LifestyleNew thrills of rereading old booksFor 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.08 May 06:00 PM
LifestylePoet makes the most of being differentLemon Andersen tells David Larsen how his time in prison led to a career in poetry.08 May 05:00 PM
LifestyleFour Kiwi authors open up their home librariesThe writer Gunter Grass once said even bad books are books and, therefore, sacred. And the good ones? Well, they are things to be read, objects to treasured and to be kept — hopefully in your own ever-growing library. 07 May 09:30 PM
LifestyleEoin Colfer going out on a magical highEoin Colfer, the Irish creator of teen criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl, tells Stephen Jewell why his next episode will be his last.07 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleKathy Lette: Queen of the quiplashAustralian novelist Kathy Lette tells Stephen Jewell how she sees the comedy within the chaos of daily life with an Asperger’s child and how she was picked up by Billy Connolly.07 May 05:00 PM
LifestyleDiscover Auckland by following NZ writers' footstepsThis Wednesday marks the start of the 2012 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Danielle Wright talks to New Zealand authors about their books set in Auckland to help you discover your neighbourhood through literature.07 May 01:30 AM
LifestyleErotica for the massesThis raunchy read has everyone talking, but Nicky Pellegrino is underwhelmed. 06 May 05:00 PM
LifestyleA new chapter: Children's bookshops come aliveDanielle Wright visits independent children's booksellers before the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards' Festival, starting on Monday.04 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: In DarknessThe world watched in horror as, in 2010, Haiti's main city Port au Prince collapsed under a shocking earthquake, its buildings crashing down and killing around a quarter of a million people. 03 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The ForrestsEmily Perkins' sumptuous new book, The Forrests, is a novel to savour slowly: line by line, character by character, revelation by revelation. 02 May 05:30 PM
TravelTravel book: <I>Mountain Biking North</I>While the Kennett brothers' annually updated Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides remains the Bible for the country's trails, this and its South Island predecessor are the hymnbooks.01 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleAuthor shines a light on Moscow's darkest sideAuthor A.D. Miller’s debut novel defies the traditional crime thriller genre as it explores the Russian capital’s underbelly. Stephen Jewell writes.01 May 05:30 PM
New ZealandLibrary readers hunger for hit bookAuckland library readers might have to shelve plans to borrow a copy of The Hunger Games - there are more than 2000 people in the queue to borrow it.01 May 07:04 AM
LifestyleBook Review: Maine I have to confess a prejudice against novels where the characters are continually lighting cigarettes and lifting drinks, and where the author continually tells you they're doing so.30 Apr 05:30 PM
LifestyleA novel with intrigue in instalmentsNicky Pellegrino finds the intricacies of a French novel a touch far-fetched.29 Apr 05:30 PM
