Melbourne restaurant Red Spice Road has released a cookbook modernising age-old Asian dishes.

The book that has everything, Kehua! offers murder, adultery, incest (and plenty of it), redemption and ghosts.

With this review I want to declare two biases. I am a big fan of Laurence Fearnley’s writing and particularly loved Edwin + Matilda.

Simon Rich published his first short story collection three years ago. Now, aged just 26, his first novel has won critical acclaim. He talks to Stephen Jewell.

Moose were released in Westland in 1900 and in Fiordland in 1910 but unlike other such introductions they were not a success.

Simon Pegg had no plans to become a movie star. In fact he had no plans at all. So just how did the geek from Gloucester catch the eye of the world's best film-makers? It's all down to 'quantum attraction', discovers Tom Lamont.

Toni Jordan's novels resist convenient labels, but that's exactly how the ex-scientist likes it.

There's more to writing a love story than one might think. Rebecca Barry meets aspiring and published authors of the booming romance genre.

Tania Anderson is a member of gospel supergroup Jubilation Choir.

A professor nominates the 200 books that will teach you more than you will learn at University.

In her new book, award-winning novelist Kelly Ana Morey has created a world out of research, imagination and a touch of personal experience that captivates and disturbs.

Fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson tells David Larsen how a dragon on a book cover lured him back to reading and changed the path of his life.

Learn how to make the perfect pav and then shake things up with some twists on the traditional.

Martin Bosley's new cookbook means his incredible dishes are yours to sample from the comfort of home.

It's hard to think of a better guide to our wild places than Gordon Ell.

A Kiwi cook and a global baker have cooked up a recipe for simple but tasty home meals.

A new book paying homage to five decades of live music in New Zealand is proof, says one contributor, Herald entertainment editor Russell Baillie, that every generation has gigs to remember.