LifestyleBook Review: The Golem And The DjinniNicky Pellegrino praises the author's skilful blend of human characters with the folklore of two cultures.20 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Fixed in memoryAs the number of living New Zealanders who have actually fought in a war declines, attendance at Anzac Day ceremonies continues to rise and ever more books about military history are published. Jim Eagles looks at the latest offerings.19 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleBooks: Apocalypse nowStephen Jewell talks to American writer Hugh Howey about why his post-apocalyptic tale is more grounded than its contemporaries.19 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Heartbreak HotelOldies reveal a rich, ripe vein of charm for Nicky Pellegrino.13 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Landfall224The secret to putting together a really satisfying literary journal is to make sure you have an editor with catholic tastes at the helm.12 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: New Zealand's China ExperienceMy fairly positive "experience" with this book was abruptly, even rudely, spoiled by the very last item, a contribution by John Key, former merchant banker and Prime Minister of this country.12 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleWriters Festival: On a collision courseLondon-based American writer Patrick Ness tells David Larsen how a childhood accident inspired his new novel.12 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Z: A Novel Of Zelda FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald's complex other half remains a mystery, writes Nicky Pellegrino.06 Apr 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Devil Is WhiteWilliam Palmer’s novels have always tried to superimpose great truths on relatively small-scale canvases.05 Apr 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Z: A Novel Of Zelda FitzgeraldA new novel imagines the shimmering yet ill-fated life of Zelda Fitzgerald, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.05 Apr 03:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Five Star BillionaireFamines, disasters, turmoil and poverty have driven millions of Chinese people from their homes to foreign lands for centuries. Now the grand-daughters and grandsons of the original “sons of the yellow emperor” are returning home; history has turned full30 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Blind Man's GardenDespite moments of beauty, no one escapes the horror in Nadeem Aslam’s fourth novel.30 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Wedding BeesIt can be a struggle to find a book that's truly uplifting.30 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: SecrecyIn the shadowed and sepulchral Florence of the 1690s, with the Medici dynasty in steep decline and the city cowed by the puritanical regime of Cosimo III, a sculptor in wax receives a commission from the Grand Duke himself.29 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Buddhaland BrooklynThe premise of Richard C. Morais' <i>Buddhaland Brooklyn</i> is that an apparent fish-out-of-water can eventually find, and adjust to, its new pond. Morais takes rather a long time to get there, but he makes it.23 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: A Tale For The Time BeingNicky Pellegrino finds the tale of a diary washed ashore intriguing and compelling.23 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: PoetryC.K. Stead’s remarkable new collection of poems, <i>The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007-2012</i>, was completed in his 80th year.23 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleMan plans, God laughsCrime writer Harlan Coben still enjoys confusing his readers, writes Stephen Jewell22 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Instructions For A HeatwaveThe thing I love most about Maggie O’Farrell’s writing is the way she colours in her characters.22 Mar 03:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: A Tale For The Time BeingSet in Japan and on an island off the Pacific coast of Canada following the Japanese tsunami, <i>A Tale For The Time Being</i> has two narrators, Japanese Nao and American/Japanese Ruth, who are worlds apart yet eerily connected.22 Mar 03:30 PM
SportBook review: <i>The Grudge: Scotland vs England, 1990</i>Last Sunday saw Wales deny England a Grand Slam when thrashing them in Cardiff. Twenty-three years ago saw one of the most famous Grand Slams in what was then the Five Nations - and England were again the central protagonists.21 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Instructions For A HeatwaveNicky Pellegrino finds she wants 'something else' from a writer she admires.16 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Nothing Gold Can StayBeing praised by, among many others, Daniel Woodrell — the author of the bleak <i>Winter’s Bone</i>, which was made into a suitably monochromatic and emotionally grim feature film — shows where Ron Rash’s fiction lies on the graph.15 Mar 05:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Gone GirlBook clubs, commuters and celebrities have gone wild for <i>Gone Girl</i>, the smash-hit thriller that has Hollywood in a spin. Tim Walker talks to author Gillian Flynn about being this year’s literary sensation15 Mar 05:00 PM
SportBook review: Training ToughThe Franks brothers, famously, are allowed to follow their own training programmes so if All Blacks coach Steve Hansen wanted to get an idea of what they were up to he could do worse than read their new book.14 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Heartbreak HotelBritish author Deborah Moggach returns to the rickety hotel setting that earned her big box-office success, writes Stephen Jewell08 Mar 05:00 PM
