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Joanna Mathers says the Sex in the City fairy tale is over.

Demi Moore's shock rape allegation

The star has claimed her mother was paid $500 by her rapist.

Game on - Webb Ellis, Mansfield and the French town where you'll find them both

Author Paula Morris discovers the French town where fans of literature and rugby meet.

Top award for Kidman's crime novel

The award winners were announced in Christchurch on Saturday night.

One in the hand: Bird photographer shares stories behind rare shots

Wings of desire: New Zealand birds like you've never seen them before.

Elisabeth Moss: 'I seem to be drawn to a character that has conflict'

Times: Will the book The Testaments impact on TV's The Handmaid's Tale? Moss tells all.

Travel: A road trip to Whangārei takes a literary bend

Gregory O'Brien, artist , poet, and writer, goes north with painter Noel McKenna.

Top NZ writer to quit novels but he pleads for families to carry on reading

NZ author reveals the link between reading and how the USA plans future prisons.

Book review: Laura Lippman's Lady in the Lake

Greg Fleming reviews Laura Lippman's Lady in the Lake.

Bewildered - how one woman left life behind for 3000kms in the wilds of New Zealand

What would move you to ditch your life and take five months off to hike the length of NZ?

Danielle Hawkins - the rural romance stories taking the farmer and vet to the best-seller lists

Rural romance - the farmer and vet turned best-selling New Zealand novelist.

GoT fans will get a proper do-over after all

George RR Martin is writing a totally separate ending, offering GoT fans a do-over

How kids are learning to read

Reading teachers "seriously concerned" at ministry's sudden embrace of phonics.

From a Greek tavern to a backyard barbecue - the best new cookbooks

Baking, brisket and the world's fastest dinners.

Psychos, stalkers, pervs and trolls beware: Carrie Goldberg is coming for you

If social media is the internet's Wild West, Carrie Goldberg is the sheriff dealing to it.

Poetic justice: rising stars bust a rhyme for NZ Poetry Day

Forget about demure and dreamy poets; meet the new breed telling it like it is.