His latest fantasy novel now out, NZ author David Hair explains how to craft new worlds.

Greg Hall's novel tells of the darkest day in New Zealand military history.

Our favourite reads can make us more - or less - attractive to the opposite sex.

For Lebanese chef and food writer Marlene Matar, Aleppo is the source of a unique project.

NZ cosmologist Professor Richard Easther talks gravity with science writer Marcus Chown.

A popular local book sale opened this Easter weekend. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Lael Chisholm has designs on a future as an illustrator; now a major award ought to help.

Broadcaster Alison Ballance discusses her new book on New Zealand's great white sharks.

Nicky Hager lives in the house he built and has written six books while living there.

Books feature in most rooms, and I've just counted the bookcases.

This is the third book about (mis)adventures of two unlikely friends: a snake and a lizard

Astonishingly author Kevin Ireland's new book is his 23rd poetry collection.

Rankin and Rebus: growing older together but still on the case, writes Greg Fleming.

The late James McNeish sets out the subject of his final book right from its opening line.

Vietnam War is not past for author Viet Thanh Nguyen, writes Alexander Bisley.

Drysdale told kids in a special assembly "It's cool to read and cool to achieve."

If you picked up a book left behind in Auckland, chances are it came from Emma Watson.

Loss, pain and hope run through NZ writer Bonnie Etherington's first novel.

COMMENT: My father opened our minds to notions, concepts bigger than our mere selves and gifted us with the rules of grammar.

Nicky Hager is again releasing a book in election year, but its subject is a mystery.

Janet McAllister, who's reading her way around Auckland, visits Waitakere Library.

The Auckland Writers Festival is now so big, it's moving some events to a spiegeltent.

Murray Ball let his wonderful characters speak for him, says filmmaker.

Eleanor Catton's new work follows ultra-rich doomsday preppers in NZ.

New findings suggest poison, not cancer or faulty glands, did in the author of Sense and Sensibility.

New Zealand cartoonists pay tribute to the legendary Murray Ball, who died yesterday after a battle with illness.

A new theory has emerged that iconic author Jane Austen may have died from arsenic poisoning.

For the first time, our 49-year-old book awards will get an international judge.

The average New Zealand writer is struggling to pay their bills.

A leading world critic of Muslim extremism says New Zealand should establish "assimilation centres" for migrants and refugees from