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Local Focus: Nici and Nicky talk about love, Italy and cooking for one

A perfect day with all the right ingredients in Anzac Hall, Featherston.

Taonga inspires story about art to help us find a way through the darkness

The story of five totara panels

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An extract from Selling Britishness, new books to discover and two reviews

Harry Potter is now available as a Māori audiobook

The Philosopher’s Stone can now be heard in te reo.

Michelle Obama: 'Our hurts become our fears. Our fears become our limits'

In The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama provides tools and inspiration for uncertainty

Netflix’s The Wonder: The strange, true story of the girls who stopped eating

Times: The ‘fasting girls’ were a disturbing historical phenomenon.

Fans snap up Black Fern star Ruby Tui’s book

Black Fern's winger's autobiography tipped to be highest seller of the year for publisher.

'I'm not entirely sure NZ knows what is about to hit them': The next big sporting event coming our way

Maia Jackman and Dr Michele Cox are celebrating middle age - and women's sport!

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

Jane Harper's new page-turner, discover the mysteries of wetlands, new cook books

'Greedy brat’: Fury at Harry’s book title bombshell

The title of Harry’s upcoming memoir has sparked a mix of confusion and excitement.

The bookshelf: Top picks for your weekend reading

John Boyne revisits the Holocaust, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised reviewed

Book extract: A History of 100 Objects - the contraceptive pill

The history behind Margaret Sparrow's collection of contraceptive pills.

'Raw, unflinching honesty': Bitter title of Prince Harry's memoir revealed

'For Harry, this is his story at last.'

Prince Harry’s memoir is due in January. How explosive will it be?

New York Times: Harry is nervous about the book’s contents, publishing insiders say.

Diary of a Ukrainian girl: ‘We’re being showered with rockets’

Times: When Russia invaded, Yeva Skalietska, 12, began recording her daily life.

Almost everything you think you know about diets is wrong — here’s why

Times: Nutrition expert Professor Tim Spector wants us to follow our gut.

Vida Kelly on the art of book designing

Book designer Vida Kelly has worked with Quentin Blake to redesign Roald Dahl's books.

Ralph Macchio will always be ‘The Karate Kid’. He’s finally fine with that

New York Times: Macchio is now 60 with grown kids. The world still sees Daniel LaRusso.