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The most hyped category is fiction, with a $60,000 prize up for grabs.

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The actress, who was engaged to Depp for nine months, made the comments in her memoir.

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Poet Robert Sullivan turns to myth and history in a soaring new collection, and more.

'Drink this, you'll feel better': Is this how Marilyn Monroe really died?

A new doco finds Marilyn was not 'deliberately killed'. But one ex-investigator disagrees.

Fears Prince Harry has Camilla in his sights in forthcoming autobiography

Harry's autobiography is expected to reveal how he really feels about Camilla.

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Olympian Lisa Curry reveals the "shemozzle that should never have happened" in memoir.

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A poet documents her life in a memoir that doesn't shy away from the details, and more.

Collection of early NZ photos puts dogs in the frame

Mike White introduces a collection of early New Zealand canine photos

Delia Ephron writes through cancer to a happy ending

Delia Epron's new book is a medical thriller, cancer memoir, love story and hero's journey

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David Hill recalls a meeting that went wrong at Easter 60 years ago

Lessons from a sex therapist: Lust, secrets and surprising reason people have affairs

Times: "The pandemic hurt people's sexual life, there's no doubt about that."

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Indulge in Gigi Fenster's book you will be thinking about for days after you finish it.

How a couple from Glenfield came to be a force on social media

YouTube stars Abbey and Money Singh tell Greg Bruce how things almost fell apart.

Joy Cowley: 'The mystery central to my life'

'Times of pain and loss emptied me to make room for something new,' says Joy Cowley

Pair on a mission to put a writer back in the writer's house

"I'd say by 2024, there will be a writer living here" - Naomi McCleary.

Deborah Challinor: 'My dreams are very intense when I'm finishing a book'

The best-selling novelist speaks to Elisabeth Easther.