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Mantel named Booker prize winner
'Wolf Hall' - a rip-roaring historical tome about Thomas Cromwell - has won the $68,000 Man Booker Prize.
Cooking up a storm
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.
Power of paranoia
US thriller writer Greg Hurwitz gets a lot of his ideas by fearing the worst.
Michelin restaurant critics embrace Twitter
US reviewers for the famously secretive guides sacrifice a century of tradition by discussing the dark arts of their trade on the internet.
A page-turner to beat the best
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.
The author who writes like a journalist
Growing up in a conservative Indian town in the 1980s, Aravind Adiga devoured literature, most of it English.
<i>Book lover:</i> Patricia Wright
Patricia Wright sings the role of Madam Larina in the opera Eugene Onegin
Historical novel a class act
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