Eleanor Catton's new work follows ultra-rich doomsday preppers in NZ.

New findings suggest poison, not cancer or faulty glands, did in the author of Sense and Sensibility.

New Zealand cartoonists pay tribute to the legendary Murray Ball, who died yesterday after a battle with illness.

A new theory has emerged that iconic author Jane Austen may have died from arsenic poisoning.

For the first time, our 49-year-old book awards will get an international judge.

The average New Zealand writer is struggling to pay their bills.

A leading world critic of Muslim extremism says New Zealand should establish "assimilation centres" for migrants and refugees from

A poet from Te Kuiti thought her win was a hoax at first.

Greg Fleming reviews a new collection of unpublished poems and writings from the Man in Black many of which read like song lyrics.

It may be the digital age but libraries are coming to a street near you, and they need your books. Made with Funding from NZ On Air.

Lucy Clark on why we shouldn't stress about our children's academic success - or lack of it.

A notebook belonging to Sir Edmund Hillary will be auctioned off after it was discovered in a box of old books donated by the late mountaineer's caretaker.

A poll shows that UK citizens overwhelmingly side with Rowling over Morgan

The celebrated author has had to make the strange request after an unfortunate tweet.

A raunchy novel for teenagers that was banned in New Zealand has won a rare "perfect 10" rating from an American young adult fiction website.

A new book explores the Treaty of Waitangi - at the coalface and where we are headed.

JK Rowling has been sending off sassy comebacks on Twitter like she's firing off spells

Film-maker seeking funding to film controversial tale.

Greg Fleming reviews the latest crop of crime fiction.

E L James' writing is so execrable, the characters in Fifty Shades so banal, the sex scenes so lacking in passion and emotion.

The second novel from Mindy Mejia has already gotten attention from TV networks

He may seem like something out of a comic book, but Trump has found some help from Marvel.

A charity comic starring Batman and other DC heroes is raising funds for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

There are certain practices that separate the financially successful from the rest of us mere mortals. And one daily habit shared

Does the country have designs it can point to and say 'oh, that's so New Zealand' and claim it for our own?

A family photograph taken before a Christmas Day massacre holds a telling clue of why the slaughter took place.

Design writer Douglas Lloyd Jenkins has been a Herald, Listener and Home magazine contributor and hosted The Big Art Trip on television.

Not even 24 hours after Kiwis unwrapped their annual Christmas haul, almost 8,000 unwanted prezzies are being hawked off online.

The travel writer Colin Thubron tells John Preston what drives him to the world's most remote outposts.

Book extract by Diana's former bodyguard reveals the moment the Princess met 'love rat' James Hewitt and addresses those Harry rumours.