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Vampires evolved to become kind and sexy - researcher
A university researcher has written an academic paper on the social acceptability of vampires, now seen as an "everyman with fangs".
Travel book: <i>An Island Sanctuary: A house in Greece</i>
The sort of book that makes you want to sell up everything and flee to the sunshine of the Dodecanese islands.
The incredible shrinking book awards
This year the Montana NZ Book Awards have become the NZ Post Book Awards, with fewer categories and smaller shortlists.
Pope's pantry a hymn to glories of grease
The German Pontiff's favourite recipes are a suicidal mix of fried, buttery and carnivorous pleasures.
Review: Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo
Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart
Fig Tree, $26.99
Lost photographs reveal author's final hours
Images of the writer and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - probably taken just before his death - have surfaced in France.
Travel book: <i>Classic Walks of New Zealand</i>
This book does contain all the practical information you'd need to walk the tracks but really it's more a source of inspiration
Novel chameleon
It's hard to pin down Jane Smiley's style as each new book is so different from the last.
Book review: <i>The Passage</i>, by Justin Cronin
Plenty of buzz in the publishing world surrounds this sprawling, post-apocalyptic novel that's being heralded as one of the year's big releases.
Public access to unearthed Larsson stories in doubt
The good news for Stieg Larsson addicts: two unpublished manuscripts have been unearthed in his native Sweden.
Travel book: <i>Guide to the Central Otago Rail Trail</i>
Trail riding is increasing in popularity in New Zealand.