Stories of young, attractive women desperately trying to escape their small-town roots by allowing themselves to be seduced by older, apparently more worldly men, are not new.

Kiwi chef Leanne Kitchen's latest cookbook celebrates the many flavours of Turkey, as well as its culinary history.

Jeffrey, Lord Archer, to the photographer: "Isn't she awful?" Me, to the photographer: "Isn't he awful?"

Simon Sebag Montefiore tells Stephen Jewell about writing ‘the greatest story ever told’ and why the history of Jerusalem is the story of the world.

As she grows older and hones in on the big issues of life, Joanna Trollope just gets better.

Scarlett Thomas has penned a chatty, delightful easy read about friendship, love, and making those hard, life-defining choices.

British author Joanna Trollope, who is in Auckland next week, talks to Stephen Jewell about her new book and the trouble with raising boys.

Conor Lovett is a virtuoso actor and widely acclaimed as the best living interpreter of Samuel Becket's work.

Childhood memories and an inspiration from the past are part of the rich tapestry of themes woven into Kim Edwards' novel.

The genesis of this startling first novel is already en route to becoming a New Zealand literary legend.

Paula Green reviews three new volumes of poetry from New Zealand writers.

What went wrong at Whitcoulls?

It is a truism in the publishing industry that very few Kiwis get rich by writing a book.

Though Sue Orr's new collection of short stories, From Under The Overcoat, references short stories by literary greats such as Nikolay Gogol (The Over Coat) and James Joyce (The Dead), don't hold that against it.

A sickbed obsession culminates in moving musings about the beauty of our world.

One of the pleasures of reading an essayist as eclectic as Geoff Dyer is that one can go within a few pages from regarding him as a fount of wisdom (when his opinions match yours) to thinking he's a pretentious phoney (when they don't).

For women of a certain (or uncertain) age, remembering nothing is not difficult. Remembering something is more problematic. Thus, women of a certain age will be enchanted by Nora Ephron's take on memory, or lack of it.

Confession time: I'd never read anything by Anne Rice before this. For a while, I thought she was another name for Stephenie Meyer. She's not (of course), but she could be.