LifestyleA year of Italian food (+recipe)Let your tastebuds travel with a cookbook that celebrates the seasonal foods of Italy.16 Sep 05:30 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Rachel Simon Q & A Rachel Simon was browsing through a book stall at a conference in Itasca, Illinois, when she found herself drawn to a short book with an arresting title: <i>God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24</i>, by Dave Bakke.16 Sep 02:58 AM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Inspiring Rules of CivilityI'm sure the person who coined the phrase "a picture paints a thousand words" thought a thousand words sounded like a lot. But a single picture can paint - or at least inspire - far more words than that. 14 Sep 10:00 PM
EntertainmentPay to move your own shed, fans tell Roald Dahl's familyAn appeal for $95,913 to restore Roald Dahl's garden shed has proved a plot twist too fantastical for the writer's fans.14 Sep 12:00 AM
EntertainmentMichael Ondaatje: A divided manWriter Michael Ondaatje, who won the Booker prize for <i>The English Patient</i>, draws on his own extraordinary life to conjure up evocative tales of displacement. Robert McCrum asks how much reality there is in his fiction.12 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentHari Kunzru: Embracing structural strangenessBritish writer Hari Kunzru tells Stephen Jewell why he has adopted America as his base and why sci-fi readers are more open to the unusual.12 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentAnita Shreve: Tragic heart of successCall Anita Shreve's books chick lit at your peril, warns Nicky Pellegrino.11 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Sherry Cracker Gets Normal Cute titles. How do I feel about cute titles? I feel that the authors have to work a couple of degrees harder to justify them. New Zealand-born, Britain-based Connell works very hard indeed in her second romp - and with reasonable success. 11 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Small Holes In The SilenceBrother, they want me to write you a review but I’m not going to do it. Another book is out. Your collected works. 11 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook lover: Barbara EwingBarbara Ewing is a UK-based Kiwi actress and writer whose most recent novel is <i>The Circus of Ghosts</i>.11 Sep 02:00 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: 'The Story of Beautiful Girl' - Truth and PerceptionWho are we really? What's beyond the façade the rest of the world gets to see? How can we communicate without a voice? 09 Sep 12:00 AM
EntertainmentTess Gerritsen: Breaking out her writing instinctsDoctor-turned-suspense novelist Tess Gerritsen talks to Craig Sisterson about embracing her heritage and seeing her heroines come alive onscreen.07 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: The AbsolutistJohn Boyne, author of <i>The Boy in Striped Pyjamas</i>, has published a new novel with links to World War I. <i>The Absolutist</i> traces the experiences of a young serviceman through a deft weave of past and present. 07 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: My Dear, I Wanted To Tell YouLouisa Young's enthralling novel begins in the gorgeous, leafy light of upper-class Edwardian England where wealthy, bohemian-ish families plan lives filled with art and beauty, and ends in a darkened world transformed by the violence and pain of World Wa07 Sep 05:00 PM
TravelSouth-East Asia on a 1975 guide bookTravelling with the original Lonely Planet as a guide, writer Brian Thacker finds what's changed in 35 years.07 Sep 03:45 AM
LifestyleAnne Sebba: The worst of all worldsBooks editor Linda Herrick talks to historian Anne Sebba about her new biography of the woman the royal family — and Britain — loved to hate.06 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Introducing Rules of Civility by Amor TowlesIt's a gutsy first-time novelist who writes a book about New York society in the early 20th century. 06 Sep 01:00 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: Griffith Review 33: Such Is LifeIn this volume the Griffith writers look inward and backwards to gain some fresh insight into not only their own lives but the lives of us all.05 Sep 05:00 PM
TravelTravel book: <i>New Tales of the South Pacific</i>This thoughtful little tome of short stories is perceptive and entertaining.05 Sep 02:00 PM
EntertainmentMolly Birnbaum: Gimme back my smellCan we relearn a sense? A chef apparently did, finds Nicky Pellegrino.04 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook lover: Mike Ashma Mike Ashma is the director of the NBR New Zealand Opera's production of the double-bill Cav & Pag opening in Auckland on September 15.04 Sep 02:00 PM
OpinionFiction Addiction: Introducing 'The Story of Beautiful Girl'I was in two minds when it came to choosing <i>The Story of Beautiful Girl</i> by Rachel Simon for my September feature read. 02 Sep 02:00 AM
EntertainmentBook Review: Sarah ThornhillA terrible thing happened, that day, up at Blackwoods' place, in <i>The Secret River</i>, the first of Grenville's historical novels set in the penal colony of New South Wales. 30 Aug 05:00 PM
EntertainmentBook Review: Utopian Man Every city can lay claim to its fair share of eccentrics. This book is about one of Melbourne's: Edward William Cole.30 Aug 05:00 PM
LifestyleAll you need is ... a bookWhy are we so enthralled by the pronouncements of the latter-day gurus of self-help, asks Alex Clark.28 Aug 05:00 PM
