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Whitcoulls Top 100: Ten Kiwi authors make list as Harry Potter series rules the charts

Ten New Zealand authors have made the Whitcoulls Top 100 list this year.

Noteworthy: Social status focus of a selection of books

Eleanor Black on Canvas' Noteworthy book reviews.

Letters tell of love during World War II

Love letters create a new literary genre with a multiple purpose

'If I had to go through it, I'm allowed to write about it'

Eleanor Black talks to poet Jess Fiebig

What I'm Reading: Kimberly Andrews

Author Kimberly Andrews shares her current reading picks

Amazon restricts reviews on Harry and Meghan biography

The 'Sussex Squad' have been trying to boost the book's rating on Amazon.

Sophie Hannah continues to test Poirot's powers of sleuthing

Eleanor Black talks with crime writer Sophie Hannah.

Why author Deborah Challinor was wrong

Deborah Challinor reveals what she's reading.

What I'm reading: Peter Feeney

Actor Peter Feeney reveals his favourite writers

Crossing the Lines: three gay soldiers in World War II

On 13 September 1947, two gay friends, Freda Stark and Harold Robinson, got married.

The ninth art: celebrating our rich Kiwi comics scene

Jonathan King on creating his new book, The Inkberg Enigma.

Children of the tea planters

An extract from The Kalimpong Kids, by Jane McCabe.

New Twilight book slammed for glorifying domestic violence

A disturbing theme in Bella and Edward's love story has fans up in arms.

Stephenie Meyer is telling Edward's story, even if It makes her anxious

New York Times: Midnight Sun retells Twilight from the vampire's perspective. But why now?

Pandemic parody of Goodnight Moon to be released

The children's favourite has had a lockdown reinvention.

'I've returned to my passion which is a good memoir or diary'

Wendyl Nissen on what she's reading.