LifestyleBook review: Upstairs at the PartyReconsidering moments that changed everything is an old chestnut in fiction, but Linda Grant manages it with verve in this excellent novel.18 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: No Book But The WorldFred Robbins is an enigma, even to the person closest to him in the world, his sister Ava.18 Jul 06:00 PM
BusinessAmazon tests Netflix model for e-booksAmazon could be trying the Netflix model for e-books soon - touting unfettered access to more than 600,000 titles for a monthly fee.16 Jul 09:08 PM
New Zealand12 Questions: Sir Bob JonesMy friends would say 'perhaps you're misunderstood'. People say things about me that are simply not true.16 Jul 05:00 PM
LifestyleReclusive author's scathing attack"Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood," Harper Lee says.15 Jul 08:20 PM
EntertainmentEleanor Catton back in printMan Booker prize winner Eleanor Catton is to publish her first work since landing one of the literary world's most coveted prizes.12 Jul 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: All The Light We Cannot SeeIt’s full of dazzling prose, it’s ingeniously put together, it’s so long it’s a drag to lug around.11 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleTina Shaw: Ripples in a pondTina Shaw talks to Rebecca Barry Hill about her connection to provincial New Zealand and why she is drawn to dark crime.11 Jul 06:00 PM
OpinionVaimoana TapaleaoWhy new Potter is just wrongThat was the only thing going through my mind as I heartbreakingly read - no, scraped - through JK Rowling's latest look into the life of Harry Potter.11 Jul 01:00 AM
Business10 business books for your reading listTen business books to help you get ahead in your career, better manage teams, sharpen your leadership skills or just learn something new.10 Jul 04:30 AM
BusinessAmazon offers authors caught in dispute all revenue from e-salesAmazon.com has an offer for authors at the book publisher Hachette, which is embroiled in a fight with the Internet retailer over e-book prices.09 Jul 03:33 AM
LifestyleThe top 'unread' bestsellersYou need a book to take on holiday but you don’t want a “summer read”, you want something that will broaden your mind.08 Jul 11:30 PM
BusinessAuthors weigh in on Amazon, Hachette disputeThe clash between Amazon and Hachette has taken a new turn, as hundreds of authors asked readers to email Amazon's CEO to protest the e-retailer's tough tactics.07 Jul 01:40 AM
LifestyleBook review: Tree PalaceIn his second novel, Craig Sherborne presents a family of transients, “last of their kind”, who drift along, squatting in abandoned properties dotted across Victoria’s wheat belt.05 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Empty Bones and Other StoriesBreton Dukes has an interesting bio. He has shifted from north to south — from Whangarei to Dunedin.04 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Tenderness storiesPublishers are wary of short stories. They don’t sell as easily or pleasingly as novels.04 Jul 06:00 PM
WorldDid MI5 abuse JK Rowling?The online abuse aimed at the Harry Potter author JK Rowling after she donated £1 million to the Better Together campaign may have actually been the work of British spies, a senior Scottish politician has claimed.29 Jun 07:26 PM
New ZealandThe wonders of readingGhetto kid turned presidential hopeful Ben Carson is in New Zealand to help celebrate as the Duffy Books in Homes scheme turns 20.28 Jun 05:00 PM
LifestyleUrsula Le Guin: You never stop learningUrsula Le Guin’s long career has traversed many worlds, within which she is still uncovering more, writes David Larsen.28 Jun 12:24 AM
LifestyleBook review: The Girl Who Saved The King of SwedenIt starts in the 1970s. An illiterate girl from a Soweto slum is crammed into a truck with a load of potatoes.27 Jun 06:00 PM
New ZealandJohn Key: I thought about quittingJohn Key briefly considered walking away from the job about 18 months ago and his new biography reveals he sacked two Ministers for 'nothing in particular'.25 Jun 07:30 PM
LifestyleBook is anything but boringIt's said you should never judge a book by its cover, and Auckland author Vasanti Unka's <i>The Boring Book</i> proves this.23 Jun 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The SilkWormIt was three months after the publication of Robert Galbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling, that J.K. Rowling was exposed as the true author of "his" crime debut, lauded by readers and critics alike.20 Jun 06:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Wild claims hurt writer's good workEditorial: Book launches can be a trap for unwary authors. Eager to gain the maximum publicity for their work, they face an ever-present temptation to gild the lily.19 Jun 05:30 PM
