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'Mummy porn' book hits spot for women
Ten thousand copies of a "mummy porn" novel - based on Twilight characters - have hit Kiwi bookshelves.
Book lover: Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is a US mystery suspense author whose latest novel is Catch Me (Headline).
A devious tale follows the man from Primrose Lane
A convoluted crime yarn disorients but enthralls Nicky Pellegrino.
Author gets to know an ancestor
Carroll du Chateau talks to writer Stephanie Johnson about her special bond with her latest subject.
Poetry review: Dear Heart
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.
Book Review: The Exotic Rissole
Tanveer Ahmed has written a memoir that entertains but also gives you something to think about. The Exotic Rissole explores mixed cultural relations.
Book Review: A Perfectly Good Man
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.
Why an expat author won't base his story in NZ
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.
Feeling like Martha Stewart at a dainty little cafe
Viva takes tea with Little & Friday - the little cafe that could.
Fiction Addiction: Bestseller criteria to be reviewed
A Herald Online discussion has prompted Booksellers New Zealand to review the outdated eligibility criteria for the bestseller lists.
Bad sex and terrible deeds abound at writers festival
May’s Writers and Readers Festival has a diverse lineup of international guests to tempt lovers of all genres, writes Linda Herrick.
Book Review: Narcopolis
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.