LifestyleBooks: Patience brings its rewardsBack in the familiar rural midwest of her previous novels, Moo, Horse Heaven and A Thousand Acres, Pulitzer prize-winner Jane Smiley presents us with the first volume of a projected trilogy.06 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Expert guided tour through rich historyTo modern eyes, the little wagon in a Berlin museum looks like a model of an old horse-drawn cart. Solidly made, about as big as a baby's cot, it is in fact a handcart, to be pulled by people, not animals.06 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Revelation and disintegrationA novel is a place where past and present versions of one person can co-exist, and in his fifth novel Andrew O'Hagan movingly explores the way the "flotsam" of a life can rise to the surface as old age and memory go about their strange and poignant work.06 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Unsettling presence in everyday lifePlaudits to the publisher for their tactile, trim presentation of this small-is-beautiful novella. And to the Australian author herself for a rewarding — and riddling — little read.06 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleMockingbird sequel draws concernsThe announcement that Harper Lee is to revisit the characters of To Kill a Mockingbird has been greeted with delight and suspicion.05 Feb 04:00 PM
OpinionPaula Morris: NZ condemned to margins unless we shift cultural gazeMany writers resist national labels. Like Salman Rushdie, we'd rather belong to "the boundless kingdom of the imagination ... the unfettered republic of the tongue".04 Feb 04:00 PM
OpinionBrian RudmanBrian Rudman: Catton clash shabby, but trumps the HarawirasAs we head into the Waitangi Day circus, Titewhai and her whanau have been gazumped by literary prima donna Eleanor Catton, writes Brian Rudman.03 Feb 04:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Catton success illuminated nationJe suis hua, writes Deborah Hill Cone, as she asks: "weren't we all just gargling on about free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre?"01 Feb 08:30 PM
LifestyleBooks: Love and how to forgiveWhat is normal? And what if you don't fit in with society's idea of it? Those are the issues raised by US author Amy Hatvany's thoughtful and compelling new novel31 Jan 02:46 AM
LifestylePaul Cleave: Murders He WroteChristchurch crime writer Paul Cleave, whose books have sold more than half a million copies, has no qualms killing people on the page. But now online piracy is killing him, he tells Linda Herrick.30 Jan 06:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: The river runs wildLucy Wood’s first novel is a magic realist ghost story set in Devon. Lucy Popescu went there to meet her.30 Jan 05:00 PM
New Zealand'Kiwis have been generous to author'The Taxpayers’ Union says Kiwis have done more than enough to support under-fire author Eleanor Catton, who received upward of $50k in funding over the last few years.30 Jan 05:00 AM
Lifestyle'Thorn Birds' author diesColleen McCullough, the internationally acclaimed Australian author, has died, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.29 Jan 05:12 PM
OpinionPaul ThomasPaul Thomas: Shedding light on 'The Luminaries' stoushEleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning novel <i>The Luminaries</i> shows she knows a thing or two about astrology, but I doubt she foresaw the stoush triggered by her remarks.29 Jan 04:00 PM
New ZealandIconic Wellington book store hit by floodingA popular book store remains closed after it was flooded today and hundreds of books were damaged.29 Jan 05:08 AM
New ZealandHulme quick to back CattonNew Zealand's original Booker Prize winner has defended her successor after Eleanor Catton was criticised for speaking out against the Government and some Kiwi attitudes.28 Jan 04:00 PM
New ZealandAcquitted uncle tells his storyA man twice acquitted for the sexual violation and murder of his adopted niece says a new book tells the truth about how she died.24 Jan 04:00 PM
LifestyleMy life with Stephen HawkingAs the film of their life is released, Jane Hawking recalls how she fell in love with the legendary physicist against the haunting backdrop of his developing motor neurone disease.23 Jan 08:00 PM
LifestyleInside the mind of Lee ChildEvery September 1, Lee Child begins work on another of his massively popular Jack Reacher mysteries. this time, he had Andy Martin looking over his shoulder.23 Jan 07:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Embracing the hard stuff"Tell you what", write the editors of this excellent collection, is a phrase that promises "a revelation, a shift, a new truth".23 Jan 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Warning: horrors lie aheadI can see it plainly now. Stephen King has been playing me. The old Stephen King, the real one. I'd forgotten about him. That was his plan all along.23 Jan 05:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: A love letter to New YorkPorochista Khakpour's new novel is a magical realist take on 9/11.23 Jan 05:00 PM
LifestyleA year of eating celebrity dietsFrom Dolly Parton's smelly cabbage soup to Liz Taylor's stinky dip, behind most stars is a mad, fad diet. Writer Rebecca Harrington tried them all.22 Jan 11:45 PM
LifestyleBooks: 'I hate men who waltz in and write about love'Jodi Picoult has written 23 novels, eight of them No 1 bestsellers. Just don’t call her work ‘women’s fiction’, says Bryony Gordon.17 Jan 01:00 AM
LifestyleBooks: The truth is out there, somewhereWhen a computer virus hacks into the Australian prison system in 2010, it also infects the American corporations that licensed the software.16 Jan 05:00 PM
TravelTravel book review: <i>Gallipoli</i>The quintessential guide book for the scene of New Zealand's most significant war effort covers everything you need to know about the Gallipoli Peninsula.15 Jan 04:00 PM
WorldNew push to revive forgotten wordsWord-lovers are being encouraged to ditch new coinages for long-lost words that may have fallen out of favour.14 Jan 02:56 AM
LifestyleThe new faces of Harry PotterNew images of Hagrid, Hermione, Ron and Draco Malfoy have been released ahead of October's release of the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone illustrated edition.14 Jan 02:15 AM
LifestyleA children's picture book authorDown a driveway in a modest house in Hamilton's university suburb is where the magic happens.11 Jan 04:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Put the mobile in a drawerAbsorbing stories are an ideal way to unwind over summer.10 Jan 05:00 PM
