Best-selling British crime writer Mark Billingham tells James Kidd where he gets his ‘sick and twisted’ ideas.

The universal appeal of the "What If" speculation underpins this fascinating collection of artistic losses ranging from historic thefts to works that never actually realised.

The title of the first Bridget Jones novel in 14 years has been announced - Mad About The Boy.

Women: do you feel like your male colleagues don't listen to you? Men: do you feel like you're walking on eggshells with women in your office?

Did you always think the name Nigel was a bit of a liability?

Partly autobiographical novel is a potential winner of awards, predicts Nicky Pellegrino.

Stephen Jewell meets the award-winning South African author of a thrilling tale of murder ... and baseball.

The first book by Australian author Lucy Neave, Who We Were is a very restrained sort of thriller.

Lea Michele has landed a book deal.

Known for his evocative and nostalgic portrayal of everyday life, photographer Derek Henderson's third book examines the human form.

An author who pens stories the length of a sentence has scooped this year's Man Booker International Prize.

I feel privileged and honoured. The recurring fear is: Have I wasted my life writing?

The final day of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival was bookended by standing ovations for two of New Zealand's ground-breaking writers of the past 50 years.

JK Rowling's own copy of the first edition of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', adorned with her illustrations and comments, is to go under the hammer.

The big issue with writers' festivals is that you can't be at three or four events at once. So the rich array of offerings presented the ongoing dilemma of which writer to see.

Some natures are drawn to hazard: to explore the familiar from a vertiginously different perspective.

Abigail Tarttelin has written a dramatic and emotionally authentic story. An unusual sexual secret gives this novel raw power, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

I am fortunate enough to spend more time in my happy place than anywhere else. My happy place is my office/library. It's on the ground floor of our three-level townhouse in Ponsonby.

New Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde, has written two of my all-time favourite poetry collections: The Commonplace Odes and Three Regrets And A Hymn To Beauty.

Wellingtonian Emma Martin won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize with the title story of this first collection.

One of the more startling observations in a book filled with acute and startling observations is that Africans only really come to consider they are “black” when they go to the United States.

Rutherfurd, whose new tome is called Paris, had an extra hour added to yesterday's Writers & Readers schedule after selling out tomorrow and recalled having to speak to a row of schoolboys scowling at him.

The city of Auckland was named after "a dud ex-colonial mediocrity who stuffed up on a quite spectacular scale", says British historian William Dalrymple.