LifestyleNew Bridget Jones novel title announcedThe title of the first <i>Bridget Jones</i> novel in 14 years has been announced - <i>Mad About The Boy</i>.31 May 02:55 AM
LifestyleUnderstanding the opposite sex in the officeWomen: 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?28 May 09:00 PM
EntertainmentTwelve Questions: Sam NeillDid you always think the name Nigel was a bit of a liability?27 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: AmericanahPartly autobiographical novel is a potential winner of awards, predicts Nicky Pellegrino.25 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleTime-travelling kill spreeStephen Jewell meets the award-winning South African author of a thrilling tale of murder ... and baseball.25 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Blood & BeautySarah Dunant's trio of novels set in Renaissance Italy cemented her reputation as one of the great writers of historical fiction.24 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: BelomorMost of Nicolas Rothwell's books and journalism offer lyrical, subjective evocations of northern Australia and its indigenous people.24 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Who We WereThe first book by Australian author Lucy Neave, <i>Who We Were</i> is a very restrained sort of thriller.24 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook examines the human formKnown for his evocative and nostalgic portrayal of everyday life, photographer Derek Henderson's third book examines the human form.23 May 07:00 PM
LifestyleStories just one sentence long earns book prizeAn author who pens stories the length of a sentence has scooped this year's Man Booker International Prize.23 May 12:00 AM
EntertainmentTwelve Questions: Albert WendtI feel privileged and honoured. The recurring fear is: Have I wasted my life writing?22 May 05:30 PM
LifestylePotter book sells for $200KA first edition copy of <i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</i> that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations fetched 150,000 pounds (NZ$227,415) at auction.22 May 02:07 AM
LifestyleHow to nurture a geniusI am sitting at the back of a university physics class while the students cluster in small groups around the whiteboards lining the lecture hall, ready to tackle the day’s equation.19 May 10:35 PM
LifestyleWriters saluted on festival's final dayThe 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.19 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleJK Rowling's own Potter book for saleJK 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.19 May 07:44 AM
EntertainmentWriters Festival: Unexpected pathsThe 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.19 May 01:27 AM
LifestyleBook Review: Levels Of LifeSome natures are drawn to hazard: to explore the familiar from a vertiginously different perspective.18 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Golden BoyAbigail Tarttelin has written a dramatic and emotionally authentic story. An unusual sexual secret gives this novel raw power, writes Nicky Pellegrino.18 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleMy happy place: Graham Beattie, bloggerI 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.18 May 05:30 PM
LifestyleListen to the silenceNew Zealand’s Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde, has written two of my all-time favourite poetry collections: <i>The Commonplace Odes</i> and <i>Three Regrets And A Hymn To Beauty</i>.17 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Two Girls In A BoatWellingtonian Emma Martin won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize with the title story of this first collection.17 May 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: AmericanahOne 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.17 May 06:00 PM
New ZealandWriters Festival: Giant books bring the past to lifeRutherfurd, whose new tome is called <i>Paris</i>, 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.17 May 05:30 PM
New ZealandWriters Festival: Revealed - a name of shameThe city of Auckland was named after "a dud ex-colonial mediocrity who stuffed up on a quite spectacular scale", says British historian William Dalrymple.15 May 06:27 PM
LifestyleDan Brown returns to Europe for InfernoDan Brown sees the world a little differently than the average person.14 May 10:25 PM
Small BusinessBusiness guru Kawasaki points the wayFormer Apple chief evangelist and now entrepreneur and author Guy Kawasaki says he wants to help New Zealand be even more enchanting on his upcoming visit here on Wednesday.12 May 05:30 PM
