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Booker Prize: Judges try it both ways

Booker prize judges split between celebrated author and new writer.

Alcoholic parents and a soft-porn satire - Julie Andrews' revealing memoir

Julie Andrews' new memoir reveals a less-prim life than those of her on-screen personas.

Jo Cribb: Reading in the digital age

COMMENT: We are reading more than ever, but it's likely to be in snippets.

From financial mess to thrift queen: How one woman turned finances around

Frances Cook shares what she wishes she knew about money, at an earlier age.

Quitting Westboro and the power of Lorde

An exclusive interview with the granddaughter of the "most hated family in America".

Inside story: Queen's coronation and hedonism - life as a royal lady-in-waiting

Before The Crown's next series, a player in real-life royal sagas pens her own life story.

Storytelling to enrich our history and inspire

Is this the best NZ book of 2019? Literary award-winner releases dazzling new book.

Cate Blanchett reveals the toughest thing about being a parent

Cate Blanchett reveals the chaos of family life and why she sometimes hides in bathrooms.

Is there still Sex in the City?

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.