EntertainmentBooker's first Kiwi comes to townFor sale: hexagonal house in quiet position near top white-baiting lagoon in the heart of the South Island's West Coast.18 Mar 03:15 PM
EntertainmentKiwi author hits big timeA little-known Kiwi author is pinching herself after landing a seven-figure advance and a lucrative film deal for her new book.15 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleThere's something about JaneNearly 200 years after her death, Jane Austen has become one of the most widely read authors in history. Kerrie Waterworth finds out why she continues to appeal, generation after generation.14 Mar 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The LieIt is not easy to decide which lie Helen Dunmore was talking about when she titled her new book.14 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleThe dark beneath the lightBritish-based writer Tom Rob Smith tells Stephen Jewell how real life drama inspired his new novel in a way that disturbed him far more than he expected.14 Mar 05:00 PM
New ZealandLuminaries setting gets Catton visitAward-winning author Eleanor Catton spent yesterday in Hokitika, the setting of her critically acclaimed novel The Luminaries.13 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleCelebrities who have written kid's booksKeith Richards is releasing a children's book in September, but he is not the first celebrity to venture into the world of children's publishing.12 Mar 06:00 AM
New Zealand12 Questions: Peter WilliamsPeter Williams, QC, turns 80 this year and is finishing a new book of stories from his long legal career.10 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleKarl Ove Knausgaard: A writer's lifeIt’s raw, relentless and, at an epic 3500 pages, a best-selling literary phenomenon. But the brutal honesty of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has shocked many — and alienated half of his family, writes Hermione Hoby.08 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Last WordConsider being commissioned and hard-pressed to write the biography of an old, famous, living author.07 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBen Atkins: One night out sleuthingFledgling Auckland writer Ben Atkins talks to Craig Sisterson about the crime novel he has been working on since he was 15.07 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleLazy Days: Painting the kiwi lifestyleImages reproduced with permission from Lazy Days: Painting the kiwi lifestyle by Graham Young, published by New Holland, $29.99.04 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook review: Terms & ConditionsExtensive footnotes make this hard to follow, as Nicky Pellegrino discovers.01 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: A Beautiful TruthWalt and Judy, of 1970s small-town Vermont, can't conceive a child. For all their mutual tenderness, life has become just "a collection of gestures and habits". So they adopt.28 Feb 05:00 PM
WorldDid dead novelist solve PM's cold case?A Swedish newspaper has intensified a decades-old allegation by dead crime novelist Stieg Larsson about who was behind the 1986 murder of the country's Prime Minister.25 Feb 09:35 PM
LifestyleToying with times pastMiranda Carter read history while at Oxford and came to writing after a career in journalism.22 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Empty MansionsThe wealth gap is provoking much contemporary anxiety. But the financial imbalance between, say, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet and the Big-Mac slinger is a shadow of that which existed between the first American capitalist barons.21 Feb 05:00 PM
New ZealandTerror scholar explores a dark fictional worldIn Richard Jackson's book about a terrorist, sections of text are covered by heavy black lines.21 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionChris SchulzHow to spoil Game of ThronesHave you spoiled Game of Thrones for yourself? Chris Schulz has. Here's his cautionary tale.19 Feb 08:30 PM
LifestyleHenning Mankell: Chronicler of his own declineAfter years of exploring Sweden’s darkest fears in his fiction, Henning Mankell, the creator of Wallander, faces his own anxiety after being diagnosed with cancer. Andrew Anthony writes.14 Feb 05:00 PM
LifestyleFifty Shades one of the most borrowed booksLiterary sensation <i>Fifty Shades Of Grey</i> - which has already set sales records - has become one of the UK's most borrowed library books.14 Feb 02:00 AM
LifestyleHow to reinvent yourselfThree Aucklanders tell Alan Perrott how they reinvented themselves.07 Feb 08:00 PM
