LifestyleHeartbreak through Irish eyesElegant writing takes us through the highs and lows of a woman’s life.06 Sep 06:00 PM
LifestyleSarah Waters: Blood, sweat and scrubbingSarah Waters’ new novel explores what happens when an ‘unruly passion’ in the form of two lodgers enters a house. She talks to Linda Herrick.05 Sep 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Four StoriesOh, to write like Alan Bennett. The consummate modulations of mood and structure. The utterly English urbanity and self-deprecation.05 Sep 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Zone of InterestMartin Amis is a child of the 20th century, both literally and by literary preoccupation. He was born in the aftermath of World War II and grew up in the shadow of the unholy trinity of great ideologies — fascism, communism and capitalism.05 Sep 06:00 PM
LifestyleJennifer Weiner: Paperback fighterA bestselling author who sells books by the million, Jennifer Weiner is on an almighty mission to get ‘chick lit’ the serious attention she believes it is due.29 Aug 07:00 PM
LifestyleSouth Sea Vagabonds: Gone with the tideWhen author Johnny Wray was a lad at school in the 1920s, his form master was most disparaging of his writing, describing it as: “Conglomerations of facts occasioned by heterogeneous concatenations of stupid irrelevancies.”29 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleThe ultimate punishmentIn keeping with the almost impermeable wall that prevents a healthy transtasman book trade, Helen Garner is relatively unknown in New Zealand.22 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleGood for your digestionI'd love to meet John Crace. The Guardian columnist is acerbic, focused, appallingly funny.22 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Temporary GentlemanSebastian Barry’s latest novel is a narrative of disintegration and self-destruction, written in the most lyrical of language.01 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Art of Neil GaimanThis is a very strange book. It's about Neil Gaiman, so it can probably afford to be.01 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleGerard Woodward: Dumplings of factGerard Woodward’s family gave him plenty of material to write about, but it took years to work out how, he tells Linda Herrick.01 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleDavid Mitchell: Short and tweetThe $100 million movie of Cloud Atlas bombed, but that didn’t halt the rising star of its author, David Mitchell, regarded by many as the greatest of his generation. now he is tweeting his latest work, writes Hermione Hoby.25 Jul 07:00 PM
LifestyleGraham Swift: A coastguard meets a comedianThe many facets of England meet in the pages of Graham Swift’s new book, writes Stephen Jewell.25 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleMartine Bailey: Taste of murderMartine Bailey puts a dark twist on food in her ‘culinary gothic’ novel that features real, historic family recipes, writes Stephen Jewell.18 Jul 06:00 PM
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
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
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
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
