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Book review: A conversation on the quest for the lobster

An interweaving of tales in search of the lobster, worldwide

Take your foot off the gas for a short stint in Featherston

One of the best spots for a pit stop on an NZ road trip, Featherston is full of surprises.

Faeries, hell, robots, time travel: Jack Remiel Cottrell's very short stories have it all

Only a handful of the stories stretch out longer than a page (and, even then, barely).

A picture book for adults: Where lobsters go, humankind may follow

A picture book for adults

Putting a Māori lens over a classic collection of myths

Paul Little looks at a new version of a well-known Māori myth collection

Sonya Wilson: 'I'm a sucker for a good opening line'

Sonya Wilson on her books, aimed at all ages

Sex, drugs and a sporting tell-all? Sonny Bill Williams has finally found his voice

How a shy teenager became a sporting great - and a headline magnet.

Jeffrey Archer on his prison years and his latest crime caper

Times: Author also reveals how he inadvertently helped finance an attempted coup.

How We Got Happy: DJ Tyler Staunton's journey out of depression

"Looking after my well-being is a mental, social and spiritual thing."

This isn't your conventional whodunnit

In Samira Sedira's People Like Them, issues of class, race and jealousy are at the fore.

"I make a deal with God. He stands on my verandah and asks after my husband."

The stunningly strange states of Paige Clarke's short story collection She Is Haunted.

Two sisters and two voices merge for powerful debut novel

Debut novel sees two distinct women offering their sides of the same story.

Debut novel with a vivid Auckland flavour

A debut novel with pitch-perfect narrative

Oh, put it away! Why sex in novels rarely succeeds

Sally Rooney on why sex in literary fiction is a turn-off and not much fun to write.

'My story of heartbreak and hope': Toni Street on surrogacy, losing three siblings

Behind the Coast presenter's bubbly persona is a story of heartbreak and resilience.

Sebastian Faulks' Austrian trilogy part two: love as a kind of puzzle to be solved

Sebastian Faulks says James Bond boosted his pension fund