An American woman confesses to being an "abortion addict" after terminating 15 pregnancies in 17 years.

Nicky Pellegrino discovers Michelle Holman is just as funny as the people she creates.

'Wolf Hall' - a rip-roaring historical tome about Thomas Cromwell - has won the $68,000 Man Booker Prize.

A few years ago, cooking was foreign to Penina Petersen. Now the New Zealand-born mum is hoping to change the way we shop, cook, eat and live.

Kerri Jackson reviews the best new titles for teens and young readers

US thriller writer Greg Hurwitz gets a lot of his ideas by fearing the worst.

US reviewers for the famously secretive guides sacrifice a century of tradition by discussing the dark arts of their trade on the internet.

An NZ woman has been crowned Australia's fastest reader after becoming one of the first people to read Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol.

Growing up in a conservative Indian town in the 1980s, Aravind Adiga devoured literature, most of it English.

Patricia Wright sings the role of Madam Larina in the opera Eugene Onegin

It's hardly surprising that this book has zoomed up the New Zealand bestseller lists. Combining costume drama and crime with a spirited heroine and a dash of feminism, it is frightfully good, as they might have said back in 1924