The Red Cross got no money from the high-profile publisher of a book promoted as a fundraiser for the Christchurch earthquake appeal.

It took a hellish long time for best-selling writer Matthew Quick’s overnight success to come, he tells David Larsen.

A poignant blog shows just what an impact fear can have on women’s lives and dreams. Anna Maxted — no stranger to crippling anxiety — is prompted to ask ... What are we all so afraid of?

In the world that Paul Cleave creates, Christchurch is a violent and seedy city, inhabited by kidnappers, jaded ex-cops, and twisted serial killers.

Johno Ryan is doomed, it seems. He's barely out of short pants when his father and his grandfather sit him down and explain that their family are criminals: that's what they do.

Stuart MacBride brings back his leading man in his latest thriller, writes Stephen Jewell.

A family’s story can be far more tumultuous than any blockbuster, as Linda Herrick discovers in a conversation with author Lloyd Jones.

People who read a lot of novels develop certain discriminations.

Unless you're a gazillionaire signed up for one of those trips into space, your next holiday is somewhere inside these pages.

Previously unpublished family photographs of the Queen as a young girl are to be seen by the public for the first time.

Church historian and author Peter Lineham is joining us at midday for a chat on his new book Destiny: The Life and Times of a Self-Made Apostle.

Rugby superstar Jonah Lomu has criticised his former manager Phil Kingsley Jones in a new book.

A controversial children's novel is being reviewed by the Office of Film and Literature Classification.

Massive forces bent faults below the Canterbury Plains, jolting a sleeping city awake at 4.35am. The other world - that occupied by animals - got an almighty fright too.

A new poetry prize has been launched to honour Auckland poet Sarah Broom who passed away in April at the age of 41, just before her collection Gleam was published.