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Hello kitty: The cat that saved Kiwi author Helen Brown

Author Helen Brown tells Linda Herrick how her life’s dramas have led to an upcoming movie — all thanks to two cats.

Backpackers accused of library book theft

Chick lit that's Kiwi to its lovely core

She's a mum, a vet, a farmer - and a rom-com ace, finds Nicky Pellegrino.

Janet McAllister: Books break the age barrier

Fiction Addiction: Do kids still read Enid Blyton?

Award winner wrote book for her pupils

WWI soldier's story wins NZ Post Children's Book Award

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Pearls of wisdom from the Writers Festival

Interview: Jesmyn Ward

Writers & Readers Festival: 5 must-see sessions

Book lovers, put that novel down for a sec, here's a festival that may just appeal to your love of literature.

Rhys Darby: Dancing, lizards and the end of the world

Best known as band manager Murray from Flight of the Conchords, Rhys Darby is one of New Zealand's biggest comedic exports. The funny man popped in to the NZ Herald office for a chat about his new book, This Way to Spaceship, 'a handy autobiographical end-of-the-world companion'.

New thrills of rereading old books

For every person devouring a new best-seller, someone else is rereading an old favourite. But why do books, and authors, keep luring us back, asks Tom Lamont.

Poet makes the most of being different

Lemon Andersen tells David Larsen how his time in prison led to a career in poetry.

Fiction Addiction: Recommended Read - The Lifeboat

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Four Kiwi authors open up their home libraries

The writer Gunter Grass once said even bad books are books and, therefore, sacred. And the good ones? Well, they are things to be read, objects to treasured and to be kept — hopefully in your own ever-growing library.