Ten thousand copies of a "mummy porn" novel - based on Twilight characters - have hit Kiwi bookshelves.

Lisa Gardner is a US mystery suspense author whose latest novel is Catch Me (Headline).

A convoluted crime yarn disorients but enthralls Nicky Pellegrino.

Carroll du Chateau talks to writer Stephanie Johnson about her special bond with her latest subject.

Dear Heart takes its title from a poem by Michele Leggott addressed to her dead mother and is a pointer to what makes Green's collection different from its predecessors.

Tanveer Ahmed has written a memoir that entertains but also gives you something to think about. The Exotic Rissole explores mixed cultural relations.

Lenny is "a perfectly unremarkable 20-year old who just happens to be in a wheelchair". He's there because of a rugby accident and he doesn't want to live any more. So he kills himself, in front of a parish priest.

Expat Kiwi author Adam Christopher tells Stephen Jewell how his superhero novel was born and why he won’t base a story in New Zealand.

Viva takes tea with Little & Friday - the little cafe that could.

A Herald Online discussion has prompted Booksellers New Zealand to review the outdated eligibility criteria for the bestseller lists.

May’s Writers and Readers Festival has a diverse lineup of international guests to tempt lovers of all genres, writes Linda Herrick.

If you were to write a story set in Bombay, as the poet Jeet Thayil prefers to call the city now known as Mumbai in his outstanding debut novel, you don't have to work too hard.

Tumbling tresses, midnight-pool eyes, alabaster brow. None of these features in the debut novelist's publicity photo should be held against her.