LifestyleBook review: No Regrets, CoyoteI do not read a lot of noir crime fiction which, on the face of it, means I should not be writing this review — well, on the face the book presents after a few dozen pages, anyway.18 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleTwo of a kindBritish authors Nicci Gerrard and Sean French tell Stephen Jewell why their book collaboration works so well.18 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleCamilla Lackberg: Crime is on her sideStephen Jewell talks to ‘Swedish Agatha Christie’ Camilla Lackberg about her close friendship with her characters, fact being darker than fiction and the myths surrounding her country.11 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Northanger AbbeyVal McDermid's Northanger Abbey is the second stage of The Austen Project, for which four writers have been invited to produce a contemporary version of a Jane Austen novel.11 Apr 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Bright Side of My ConditionThe charming title of this book is a quotation from The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe.11 Apr 05:00 PM
TravelBook review: <I>The World's Great Wonders</I>No continent is left out in this roll call of diverse and wonderful sites.09 Apr 04:15 PM
LifestyleBook review: Arctic SummerOn December 19, 1910, a few months after the publication of Howard's End, E. M. Forster began sketching out the plan for a new novel.05 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleWriters Festival: Where the duck goes, he goesDavid Larsen discovers the intriguing backstory behind cartoonist Michael Leunig’s whimsical birds29 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: IdiopathyMany contemporary male novelists, particularly comic ones, are incapable of depicting an unsympathetic female character.28 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: & SonHyperbole often surrounds big novels, especially big novels from New York about New York and by New Yorkers, but in Gilbert's case it is all justified.28 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleGary Shteyngart: Crying with laughterAmerican novelist Gary Shteyngart tells Alexander Bisley why he likes to combine hilarity, sadness and introspection.28 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleTwo scribes go to warCould Britain have avoided World War I? Historians Max Hastings and Niall Ferguson have presented rival views on the BBC.22 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleLegends of literature in line-upLinda Herrick surveys the wealth of names coming to Auckland’s Writers Festival in May.21 Mar 06:00 PM
LifestyleSwords and jandalsAn Arabic scene of dunes and camels was the backdrop for a diverse literary event, writes Linda Herrick.21 Mar 05:00 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
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
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
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
